You don't have to just keep going the same direction that you were given. You can break off and find something new.
If we're not making mistakes, we're not pushing ourselves, we're not trying new things.
Quality in people is rare. Quality in ideas is rare.
The whole point of this is to help other people. That's it. That's the entire point of this existence.
Most people want conformity. They value a reliable consistency of giving X amount of impact per second or minute. But what I'm interested in is this idea I never heard about before. It may be 55 minutes of conversation that honestly was completely worthless, and not that interesting for me. But then there's a spur-of-the-moment two, three minutes of brilliance, which I never heard before, which will deeply and profoundly impact my life.
You have to be so fanatical when you have a dream and others don't believe in it. Fanaticism is what carries you through.
The best story always wins. The best principles for a great story are originality, hardship, and transformation.
There is not one path to greatness. There's many.
If you understand how to have a deep curiosity about everything — and I mean everything — you have an edge that cannot be beaten.
Intuition isn't just airy-fairy. It's not a feeling. Your brain has been fed with hundreds of different things, and from that, you make a decision. You can't rationalize it.
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