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You make the biggest breakthroughs alone.
Successful People Disappear for Months at a Time like It's Normal. You Should Too.
Actor Robin Williams once said: “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
Successful People Disappear for Months at a Time like It's Normal. You Should Too.
“A pattern I've noticed in successful people: they disappear from the world for months at a time to force pure focus on themselves and their vision. They laser in on one meaningful goal and make it a reality.”
Successful People Disappear for Months at a Time like It's Normal. You Should Too.
When you’re not speaking, you’re listening. And that’s how you hear things that shape your view of the world.
Nine Quotes by Keanu Reeves That'll Reprogram Your Mind (Guaranteed)
“If you’re too tired to speak, sit next to me, because I too, am fluent in silence.”
Nine Quotes by Keanu Reeves That'll Reprogram Your Mind (Guaranteed)
Philosophy upgrades your thinking and many of us haven’t thought deep thoughts for over a decade. Technology has distracted us.
Nine Quotes by Keanu Reeves That'll Reprogram Your Mind (Guaranteed)
Timothy says if you want to escape the hell of average, you must take more chances on having conversations with strangers. Everybody carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Inside the minds of strangers is the wisdom you could never figure out on your own. Stop drowning in loneliness and frustration and reach out to a new person every day for the next 6 months.
If the Average Person Did This for 6 Months, They'd Be Unrecognizable to Their Friends & Family
Your measure of success comes down to how many uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have. And talking to strangers is as uncomfortable as it gets.
If the Average Person Did This for 6 Months, They'd Be Unrecognizable to Their Friends & Family
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos goes a step further and says “The world pulls at you in an attempt to make you normal.” Your job is to fight the resistance, to stay the hell away from normal and the terrible rewards it offers.
If the Average Person Did This for 6 Months, They'd Be Unrecognizable to Their Friends & Family
“There is no normal/average. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being." – Sylvia Path
If the Average Person Did This for 6 Months, They'd Be Unrecognizable to Their Friends & Family
“In a mad world, the mad are the only sane ones left.” (Zach Pogrob) Read that quote ten times.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
We don’t need more information to figure out our lives. We need more emotion. We need to feel something because 99% of society is numb to everything.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
I saw a video today of a guy in New York who’d broken up with his girlfriend. He was doing 26.2 mile runs in the middle of the night. It was surreal to watch. He filmed the whole thing. Complete silence. Nobody on the street.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
Us mad ones love rock bottom. We don’t stay there. We get back up off the muddy floor, wipe the blood off our face, and start again.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
Never reaching rock bottom is a huge missed opportunity.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
You no longer wanna be a sheep building other people’s creations for eternity. It’s a spiritual endeavour to create. It’s deeply personal. It’s bigger than the idea of reincarnation or the afterlife. But to truly create you must not doubt yourself. You must believe you can create something bigger than yourself. It’s less about ego and more about creating a ripple effect in the world.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
The act of creation is like oxygen once you discover it.
You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful
What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data
Curius / Onboarding