1. Just because you do something a lot doesn’t mean you’re good at it.

It’s called the Mere Exposure effect, and it’s the reason you still pee on the toilet seat.

2. When you change how you treat yourself, you change how others treat you.

3. Your health is your first and most important job. If you don’t protect your health,

you won’t be able to protect anything else—your happiness, family, or finances.

4. Your comforts are a threat.

5. Loneliness & social isolation can be as detrimental to your health as smoking or obesity

6. Every successful person you admire has embarrassed themselves in front of people they respect. To succeed at a high level, you will have to do the same.

7. You should live a life of intention, but only 95% of the time. Much of life’s spice is found in the margins of the unexpected.

8. Never silence your anger without listening to it first. Almost always, it’s trying to convey something important.

9. Entrepreneurship is the best vehicle for self-improvement. Whereas the rest of society rewards you for your excuses (with sympathy or favors), entrepreneurship inherently punishes all excuses. It's a powerful cure for Excusitis.

10. Sometimes pain serves no purpose other than to keep us from taking pleasure for granted

11. Give small loans to friends who seek them. A loan is an efficient, cheap way to gauge character.

12. Each time you do something (good or bad), you make it easier to do again.

13. Never being angry is a handicap.

14. It’s better to train yourself to accept everything that happens in life. To "accept" doesn't mean to love.

It just means to be at peace with it so you could move on to the next step; asking yourself: "How do I use this to grow?"

15. Living unauthentically is discounted living. At best, it's a C+

16. The game of life is rigged—some people have more advantages than you. But if you play your part to perfection,

You will find that you have been given just enough to meet your dreams and goals.

17. Fuckups serve a grander purpose, always. Each misstep moves the aimless closer to purpose, and the purposeful closer to attainment.

18. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:39] has an oft unnoticed implication: Learning to love yourself comes first.

19. Life is unpredictable, and bad things can happen to anyone at any time.

20. You will never have all the information you need. Consciously or otherwise, you must choose:


21. The best antidepressant is pushing your body so hard that your only concerns are air and water.

22. You will encounter people who do not like you or want to see you succeed.

23. Few things in life feel as sublime as a heart-felt kindness done without an ulterior motive.

24. Miscommunications destroy more relationships than death. Never walk away from a meaningful relationship without the other party knowing why.

25. To thrive, you must get used to disappointing others. The alternative is to live small.

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