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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

James Clear · p. 27

“The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become.”

James Clear · p. 36

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”

James Clear · p. 16

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”

James Clear · p. 82

“When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.”

James Clear · p. 162

“Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.”

Cal Newport · p. 3

“Treat shallow work with suspicion because its damage is often vastly underestimated and its importance vastly overestimated.”

Cal Newport · p. 226

“When you switch from some task A to another task B, your attention does not immediately follow.”

Cal Newport · p. 42

“To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the most committed thinkers I've studied.”

Cal Newport · p. 119

“Don't take breaks from distraction. Instead take breaks from focus.”

Cal Newport · p. 157

“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control.”

Daniel Kahneman · p. 20

“Different anchors change the same answer.”

Daniel Kahneman · p. 119

“Losses loom larger than gains.”

Daniel Kahneman · p. 282

“What You See Is All There Is.”

Daniel Kahneman · p. 85

“The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living.”

Daniel Kahneman · p. 381

“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

Eric Ries · p. 9

“The minimum viable product is that version of the product which enables a full turn of the Build-Measure-Learn loop.”

Eric Ries · p. 76

“Vanity metrics will let any startup paint a rosy picture, but they won't lead to better decisions.”

Eric Ries · p. 114

“Every entrepreneur eventually faces an overriding challenge in developing a successful product: deciding when to pivot and when to persevere.”

Eric Ries · p. 173

“The small-batch approach to entrepreneurship enables greater speed of innovation, lower waste, and a higher chance of breakthrough.”

Eric Ries · p. 183

“Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.”

Morgan Housel · p. 9

“Good investing isn't necessarily about earning the highest returns... It's about earning pretty good returns that you can stick with for a long period of time.”

Morgan Housel · p. 67

“You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune.”

Morgan Housel · p. 121

“Volatility is a fee, not a fine.”

Morgan Housel · p. 158

“Wealth is financial assets that haven't yet been converted into the stuff you see.”

Morgan Housel · p. 96

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths.”

Yuval Noah Harari · p. 31

“The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.”

Yuval Noah Harari · p. 79

“We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much happier?”

Yuval Noah Harari · p. 376

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

Yuval Noah Harari · p. 251

“Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.”

Yuval Noah Harari · p. 33

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”

Viktor E. Frankl · p. 75

“It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.”

Viktor E. Frankl · p. 122

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

Viktor E. Frankl · p. 65

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”

Viktor E. Frankl · p. 84

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

Viktor E. Frankl · p. 139

“In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits.”

Carol S. Dweck · p. 6

“Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.”

Carol S. Dweck · p. 71

“No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

Carol S. Dweck · p. 13

“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”

Carol S. Dweck · p. 40

“Just the words "yet" or "not yet," we're finding, give kids greater confidence, give them a path into the future that creates greater persistence.”

Carol S. Dweck · p. 22

“Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.”

Timothy Ferriss · p. 75

“Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.”

Timothy Ferriss · p. 95

“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

Timothy Ferriss · p. 38

“Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

Timothy Ferriss · p. 71

“Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.”

Timothy Ferriss · p. 256

“In wicked domains, the rules of the game are often unclear or incomplete, there may or may not be repetitive patterns and they may not be obvious.”

David Epstein · p. 21

“A study found that having an early lead in a chosen sport could actually be a disadvantage.”

David Epstein · p. 45

“Successful problem solvers are more able to determine the deep structure of a problem before they proceed to match a strategy to it.”

David Epstein · p. 119

“Compare yourself to yourself yesterday, not to younger people who aren't you.”

David Epstein · p. 154

“The frequency of new ideas relates to the diversity of skills.”

David Epstein · p. 200