To have courage, you need fear. Courage is not the opposite of fear, rather it is the triumph over fear. There is nothing courageous about a guaranteed outcome.
— Ryan HolidayAuthor & Stoicism Expert; Marketer & Media Strategist
“I mean, people ask me, 'Should I do a startup?' And I say, 'Well, how important is work-life balance to you?' And if they say anything other than 'It's not important,' I say, 'You shouldn't do it.' Because it's a killing field.”— Richard Hagberg
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The first thing we can notice is how much trouble we could cause if we act like we don't matter and cease to take care of ourselves, and the people around us.
— Jordan PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
Money can't solve many of the problems that truly plague people. It can't solve the problems in a relationship between a husband and wife, beyond the narrow economic front. It can't straighten out the relationships you have with your children—in fact, it can make them worse.
— Jordan PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
The evidence suggests, unfortunately, that once you roughly earn a lower middle-class standard of living, additional money you earn beyond that has almost no effect on your quality of life.
— Jordan PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
The 'confidence gap' begins to manifest itself in girls at an alarmingly young age. For example, a recent study on gender stereotypes and children's perception of brilliance revealed the worrying fact that girls start doubting their own intelligence and capabilities as early as age six.
— Cherie BlairWife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair & Human rights lawyer
The greatest leaders have humility. A good leader is a humble leader. A good leader listens to people, gets other inputs, admits when they're wrong… and that boils down to humility; it's the single most important characteristic that I see in leaders.
— Jocko WillinkFormer Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author
War teaches you that there are many different types of people, good and bad, and you have to understand that good and evil co-exist, and it's up to you to calculate your way through the world, understanding where people are rooted.
— Jocko WillinkFormer Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author
If you want to see where human nature is most revealed, you have to look at human beings in their most stressful and painful scenarios. It is in those situations that you can learn how people behave and how you can behave.
— Jocko WillinkFormer Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author
Fundamentally you build trust with people by giving them trust.
— Jocko WillinkFormer Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author
People suffer from the curse of knowledge, they don't know what they don't know! All of us have different starting points, different assumptions and a different knowledge base.
— Chris AndersonCurator of TED Talks & Author of "The Long Tail
Humans have this incredible ability; we understand the world around us, we can dream, we can share visions of the future and persuade each other- and ourselves- to improve. This is so deep in our biology.
— Chris AndersonCurator of TED Talks & Author of "The Long Tail
Storytelling is an extraordinary powerful human skill that all of us are wired for; but its best used in the service of ideas.
— Chris AndersonCurator of TED Talks & Author of "The Long Tail
People like Trump rally people behind them by pointing out threats; these may be real, but most likely are imaginary or inflated. Then he says, 'only I can protect you.'
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
You shouldn't think of yourself as the person you are now – you are constantly changing – this is often called a growth mindset. When you think about human nature, you think of it as malleable, as something constantly growing and in-flux rather than something fixed.
— Angela DuckworthPsychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Dogs, chipmunks, squirrels, fish and dolphins do not have a meta-cognitive understanding of themselves. A dog can feel sad (we think) but cannot have a meta-cognitive understanding of the fact they feel sad and what to therefore do about.
— Angela DuckworthPsychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
People who learn fast and who have some level of 'natural' talent may go home from practice early because they don't have to work as hard as others to get to their target level of achievement, but when you study super-achievers, you find that instead of going home early, they work late, and really pull-away from the crowd.
— Angela DuckworthPsychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance