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What a behavior therapist should do when someone is afraid

What you try to do if you are a behavior therapist is you break down the thing they're avoiding into smaller and smaller peaces until you find a peace that's small enough so they'll do it. It doesn't really matter as long as they start it. Then they can put the next peace on the next peace and what happens is they don't get less afraid exactly, they get braver

Stop wasting money on the fancy shoes!

Save money and invest in yourself. Nobody talks about saving money anymore. Stop wasting money on the fancy shoes. I didn't by the fancy shoes. I didn't buy the cars. I didn't buy all the stuff. We did not ever even buy a house. I didn't even have a ring from my husband at the time until we could afford to have that same amount of money in the bank. So, we saved.

Value distinctions between things

There's value distinctions between things. Some things are worth doing and some things are not and you can kind of discover what that is for yourself and then you should aim at the things that are most worth doing and what you'll find if you watch carefully is that the things that you find worth doing are almost always associated with an increase in responsibility

The toughest thing entrepreneurs face today

I don't think everybody's built for entrepreneurship. It requires a special spark, determination, and the ability to persist against all odds. Every entrepreneur reaches a point where they wonder, "Am I going to make it? Will this all be worth it?" The hardest part is pushing through that doubt and believing that what you're doing matters - and that you'll make it.

What was your superpower in business?

My superpower in business is tenacity - and schools don't teach that. I stuttered, I was bullied as a kid, and I had to learn a new way to speak, practicing my speech for two hours every night. People doubted me, made fun of me, and called me names. But I told myself, “I'm none of those things. One day we'll see.” Years later, I co-founded a $12 billion company.

There's nothing worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad but being stupid is awful. And what's really bad is being broken stupid. That's about the end of the world. There is not anything much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick broken stupid... there is nowhere else to go. So make sure you get the information. It's key. You don't have to like it but learn it!

There's an idea in Christianity that you should pick up your goddamn cross and walk up the hill. Dramatically that's correct. That's the right answer.
It's like you've got a heavy load of suffering to bear and a fair bit of it's going to be unjust. So, what are you going to do about it? Accept it voluntarily and try to transform as a consequence. That's the right answer

Spend 90% on your job and 10% on your career

If you spend 100% of your time on your job, you'll do a great job - but no one will see you moving beyond it because you're not building your future. If you spend only 80% on your job and 20% on your career, you won't do your current job well enough. The right balance is about 90% on your job and 10% on your career - making connections, learning, and preparing for the next level.

Women outnumber men so the men hypothetically have more sexual opportunity but that's not what happens. What happens is that a small minority of men have all the sexual opportunity, a fairly large minority of men don't. The women are not happy because they can't find a committed relationship. It's bad for most of the men and the men who have all the sexual opportunity gets cynical

What you don't know greatly affects how your life works out

Philosophy is simply what you know and what you know greatly affects how your life works out. We might also add what you don't know greatly affects how your life works out. The idea you miss could be the missing number in trying to put the numbers in the lock. So what you don't know will hurt you. Ignorance is not bliss. It's important to know, it's important to get the information

If you learn ...

If you learn that makes life worthwhile.
You've got to learn.
You've got to learn what it's all about.
You've got to learn what's going on.
You learn by trying.
You learn by error.
You learn by doing it right.
You learn by doing it wrong.
You learn from other prople's experiences.
There's all kinds of ways to learn.
Never cease your quest for learning.
Never stop learning.

People buy when they trust you can solve their problem

Every deal ultimately comes down to one question: do they believe you're the best partner to solve their problem? You can't just tell them - you have to show them. Demonstrate your product, prove it works, and provide strong references. The hardest stage is the beginning, when no one has used your solution yet. Once you have happy customers, their trust becomes your greatest sales tool.

The Investor's Three-Point Checklist

When people ask what I look for in a business to invest in, the answer is simple: three things. First, the founder - nothing can overcome a winning or losing mindset. Second, the product - it must solve a real problem. Third, the market - it must be monetizable. Get all three right, and you'll succeed. Get two right, and maybe you'll succeed. Get only one, and you're unlikely to make it.

Margin vs cash velocity

You’ve got to understand the difference between margin and the velocity of cash. Take Walmart as an example - they make very little margin per sale, but they turn their cash so fast that they still make a massive amount of money. People often over-focus on margin and forget about how quickly cash moves through the business. In reality, the velocity of cash is just as important as margin.

Pay attention and speak the truth, your truth!
That's how you keep everything stacked up in order harmoniously
That's how you keep the balance between order and chaos
That's how you articulate your being
That's how you revivify the world
That's how you rescue your dead father from the bottom of the ocean
That's how you adopt responsibility as a citizen
That's how you love a proper life

Maybe all you have is this little rat hole of a room in some run-down place in the world. Fix it up! There is more there than you think. See what happens if you fix it up. And you'll fix yourself up simultaneously because you have to get disciplined in order to fix up the room. Then you have a fixed-up room and you will be a more fixed-up person. All hell will break loose as a consequence of that

What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life? - The answer is to put yourself in the zone of proximal development because that's where the maximal meaning is and that actually does prepare you for life. So the question - why think? - is well you think before you act and you act to put yourself in the zone of proximal development and you do that as an antidote to the catastrophe of life

As you move towards the goal there are certain things that you have to accomplish that frighten you. Maybe you have to learn to be a better speaker, a better writer, a better thinker, you have to be better to people around you or you have to learn some new skills and you are afraid of that... whatever. Because it's going to stretch you if you pursue a goal and so that will put you up against challenges

It's one of life's greatest experiences - when your name appears in somebody's testimonial. Somebody says - here's the person who found me, here's the person who got me started, here's the person who wouldn't let me quit, gave me more reasons for staying than for leaving, here's the person who believed in me until I could believe in myself... and then they mention your name. You can't buy that with money

The game of life is to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities and the more we know and the more we learn the more experience we gather in sessions like this, from the sermon on Sunday morning, to the books we read, and all the rest, helps us to keep continually adjusting our philosophical guidance system, so that we minimize more dangers, maximize more opportunities. That's really the game of life

You can't linger too long in the rest mode. You have got to go back to work. Six days of work, then rest and spirituality and friendship and change of pace. And then go back over the last six days - what did I do, what did I mess, who did I miss, what happened,.. so that I can invest those corrections in the next six days of higher productivity. Six days of work, one day of rest. Don't get the numbers mixed up

What do you want to do the next 10 years?

Take some time and decide what you want.
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to do the next 10 years, 20 years?
What would you like to become?
How many skills would you like to learn?
What are the books you want to read?
How about the people you want to meet?
The cities you want to visit, experiences you would like to have over this next period of time.
Start thinking about all of that.
Write it all down!

Urgency creates success - don’t delay, respond immediately

The richest and most successful people all share one trait - they respond instantly. I text or email some of the most successful people, and they respond right away. It’s not days later - it’s minutes. Because they want things off their plate, solved, and moved forward. Successful people have a sense of urgency about everything. Money loves speed. Speed always wins in business and in life. Faster and simpler always wins.

Pain of losing & Joy of winning

We all grow from two experiences. One is called the pain of losing. The other one is called the joy of winning. We need both of them. Amplify them as much as you can. Which also means - make losing painful. If you set up something fooled around didn't get it put it on yourself. On the other side if you did get it, congratulate yourself. Self congratulations is a sign of maturity. Seeking congratulations is the sign of immaturity