Success means different things to different people.
Achievement, wealth, happiness, health, relationships…
Regardless of what it means, it comes down to two things.
The potential value of your ideas and your ability to execute on those ideas.
Most of us tend to do more of what we’re good at.
If we’re great at coming up with ideas and we aren’t where we want to be, we come up with new ideas.
If we’re great at executing and we aren’t where we want to be, we try harder.
If we’re not where we want to be, perhaps we’re better to look to the side of the equation that isn’t our strength.
Because it doesn’t matter how big a number you have, multiplying something by zero always equals zero.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.