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Life is not a game, even a game is not a game. Because most of the time game is the beginning of a series of games.
Let's say that you're on a soccer team. Winning a championship and winning a game are not the same thing. If you want to win a game the best thing to do is to let your star player make all the moves. But if you want to win a championship maybe the best thing is for your star player to do everything he or she possibly can to develop all the other team members. That's a different strategy and the reason it's different is because it iterates across time

Jordan Peterson

Patience Increases Valuation

The first time someone tried to buy our company, they said they couldn’t—because I was the business.
Everyone told them I was the hardest working person there, seven days a week. So they offered $120 million, but only if I stayed for five years. I said I couldn’t sell it.
So I changed the strategy. I hired a C-suite team, stepped back, and let the company run without me.
Two years later, when they came back, I was there only once every six months. The business was run by a team.
We got more than double the valuation—just because we were patient, not desperate.

Patrick Bet-David

All he needs is one, he's got five

Pessimism - the deadly disease - always looking on the bad side, the problem side, the difficult side, checking all the reasons why it can't be done. Poor pessimist leads an ugly life. He doesn't try to figure out what's right, he tries to figure out what's wrong. He doesn't look for virtue, he looks for faults and when he finds them he's delighted - how ugly?!
This is the poor guy looks through the window, doesn't see the sunset, he sees the specs on the window.
And this poor guy says - "I've got five good reasons why it won't work". He is so dumb he doesn't know all he needs is one he's got five

Jim Rohn

Who you marry shapes your life!

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in life is who you marry, because that person will shape what your life looks like going forward. There has to be chemistry and attraction, but more importantly, you want someone kind, selfless, and easy to live with - someone who puts their own needs aside when needed, and supports you the same way you support them. You want a partner who is all-in, someone you can build a life with and have fun with at the same time. Also the most important component in life is faith. And if you have faith in your life, you must be equally yoked - because without that alignment, it will never work.

Ben Pogue

What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?

Starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's direction?
Good question: what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?
If you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference guess what? - it's going to be the same. And see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like - look at the last five!
Because the next five are going to be like the last five unless you major key tomorrow change it all, or change a little, or change something, or don't change,.. it's choice time you can do whatever you want.
But it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life

Jim Rohn

Build your life!

Building a life is like building a house. You wouldn't start building a house until you had it finished. Wouldn't you look foolish starting to build a house if it wasn't finished first? What if you are laying bricks and somebody came by and said "what are you building here" and you said "I have no idea"? They would take you away to a safe place. So building a life is a lot more important than building a house and yet people treat it so carelessly and so casually about making plans for what they want their life to work out to be.. I am asking you not to be casual any more. Start designing the future, for yourself, for your family, for your business, for your future. Decide what you want

Jim Rohn

I don't know what to do

"I don't know what to do" - That's okay, nobody does. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It's not going to be perfect and it will change along the way but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path and as you become disciplined you become wiser and as you become wiser you become able to formulate better and better plans so you can start vaguely and confused and develop a plan that's not so great and you start to implement it and then you accrue incremental wisdom as you implement your flawed plan and that enables you to fix the plan and so that's part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well

Jordan Peterson

Where is the meaning to be found?

Life is hard. It's tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where is the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself so you take care of yourself.
If you're good at it you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family.
If you're good at both of those then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens and you find that's meaningful.
The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that's where the meaning is to be found. That meaning is in the continual self transcendence. That's letting your old self die and the new self be reborn

Jordan Peterson

Strong enough WHY?

Why pay the price?
Why work this hard?
Why go this far?
Why try to learn this much?
Why try to do it all?
Why try to see it all?
Why try to have it all?
Why do it?
Why learn it?
Why study?
Why put yourself out?
Why try to take on this much responsibility?
Why develop yourself to the full?
Why try to become all that you can possibly become?
Why try to earn as much as you can earn?
Share as you can share?
Develop every skill you possibly can?
See every human you possibly can?
Go to every class you possibly can?
Touch everybody you possibly can?
Why do that much?
Why go that far?
Why share that much?
Why give that much away?
Why try to see everything?
Why try to do everything?
Why try to become everything?
What's a good question - WHY, and you are the only one personally that can answer the question for yourself. You've got to have your own list of WHYs.
Here's what I want you to do when you go home after you left this extravaganza - work on your list of WHYs.
One of the big thrust of success is to come up with a strong enough why. In leadership training here's what we learned if the why is powerful the how is easy

Jim Rohn