“It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.” — Antonio Damasio

In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. — @JamesClear

Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. — @JamesClear

RT @JamesClear: You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

RT @JamesClear: How to see opportunities others miss: 1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insig…

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RT @JamesClear: If the path is crowded, differentiate. If the path is empty, validate.

"A few errors in judgment repeated every day is the formula for failure." Skip the workout — just today. Skip the reading — just today. "Just today" becomes "where did the year go?" Small things compound. Both ways. — Jim Rohn #JimRohn #FormulaForFailure #CompoundEffect

Let me get this straight.... - You have access to basically all of the world's intelligence at your fingertips - You can run a business from your phone and computer anywhere in the world - You can reach anyone in the world with the words you type on a screen - You can watch the sunrise and sunset every day and it never gets old - You can play 2016 EDM sets in the background while you work - You can fly on airplane to an entirely different country in a couple hours - You can find every type of healthy food within a few minutes of your house - You can wake up and slowly chip away toward your ideal body by lifting weights at the gym Ignore the doomers - there has never been a better time in human history to be ALIVE Slam an espresso and get to work Let's have an elite day

the realization that you will achieve everything you want in life,

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

“gold is the only financial asset that isn’t someone else’s liability.” — The Changing World Order by @RayDalio

Stop Wanting Something You're Not Willing To Work For.

People underestimate the value of disappearing for 6 months into a cave to come back stronger. It worked for Batman. It worked for Superman. It'll work for you. Except people wont accept it as normal. But if you wanna be a superhero, you gotta do superhero sh*t.

The Standards: You wake up each morning perfectly at peace. Your life is exactly as you desire it to be. It is what you might call dynamically balanced—there are moving pieces, things you are heading towards and things you are leaving, but you have the feeling that everything is right where it should be. Your mind can become quiet at a moment’s notice. The instant you desire it, it becomes a reality. There is no ‘gap’. In fact much of your time is spent not thinking, but not because you actively seek this out. It is just where you happen to find yourself. You are completely free from desire. You have your preferences, yet you feel entirely unmoved by them. Your mind no longer fixates on objects with the intent of satisfying itself. You do not react emotionally to things. Emotions come as they always have, they are felt as they have always been, but they lack the overwhelming nature that once threw you off balance. You find your experience entirely absent of certain emotions like anger, anxiety, fear, or jealousy. The present moment is your closest companion. It is your natural resting place. So much so that you no longer see any significance in it, just as a fish sees no significance in water. It just is. You no longer have any compulsion to run from it. You move freely through life because you are not attached to anything. You take things as they come, and enjoy them for what they are rather than hating them for what they are not. You dive headfirst into your relationships without fear because you know that you could never be hurt. Life feels impersonal. There is no longer a ‘you’ at the center of it. There is no sense of self, no owner of ‘your’ experience. It is almost as if you are hollow, that beneath your skin there exists only a vast expanse of space, but it is a fullness rather than an emptiness. It is the feeling of being complete. If anything here does not feel perfectly true to you, is not reflected in your experience, you still have further left to go.

“some people and their countries don’t think that these things are the most important and wouldn’t think of fighting over them. Some believe that having peace and savouring life are more important than having a lot of wealth and power” — @RayDalio

"From examining all these cases across empires and across time, I saw that the great empires typically lasted roughly 250 years, give or take 150 years, with big economic, debt, and political cycles within them lasting about 50 to 100 years." -- @RayDalio