Quotes

No matter how bad your situation is, if you stand up and face it, with a noble vision, with discipline and intent, you can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine. And that's the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior

If you are capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you LOSER.
We don't call you LOSER because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million, we call you LOSER because you are not doing your best

Meta rule - you have to discipline yourself

The rule might not be - "follow this rule!"
The rule might be - "you have to follow some rules!"
It's a meta rule - "you have to discipline yourself"
And the issue is how? That's not really the relevant question. You can pick a disciplinary path

If you went home tonight and in the next few days cleaned up a whole list of decisions that might furnish enough inspiration for the next 10 years. After you've decided getting on with it is easier than deciding. Sometimes decision is the toughest part

What does the person who loses something important with grace do?

What does the person who loses something important with grace do? The answer is fairly straightforward - he accepts the defeat and thinks - okay what is it that I have left to improve that will decrease the possibility of a similar defeat in the future

If you are not a disciplined person it's uncomfortable, it's going to be painful, it's frustrating... You have to force yourself into this things. It's a muscle that has to be developed. These patterns have to be developed in your mindset. Incrementally

If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way

The better the goal the more full and rich your experience is going to be when you pursue it. That's one of the reasons for developing a vision and for fleshing yourself out philosophically because you want to aim at the highest goal that you can manage

No matter what you are acting out some people are way better at it than others. Doesn't matter if it's basketball or hockey or plumbing or law it doesn't matter. As soon as there is something valuable and you are doing it collectively there is a hierarchy

People who live mediocre lives are always looking forward to getting off. Successful people are always looking forward to getting on. Successful people don't want OFF, they want ON. They want to get on with the job. They rest only enough to gather strength

Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to maintain it and the Germans are very orderly and that was actually a canonical part of their civilization and part of actually what makes them great and powerful

If you took advantage of every opportunity you have, if you crawl through every window that was open to you, if you lived as perfectly as you could, your life would be justifiable on its own terms, despite it's suffering. And despite the tragedy in the world

Ideas plus inspiration

Ideas plus inspiration - that's the mixture that really turns things on. Sends a entrepreneur program into high gear. We need ideas for the goals and plans and we need inspiration for the emotional vitality, to put it to work, to make it grow, make it multiply

It's not that easy to cleanup your room. You want your room to be set up so that when you walk in there it tells you to be better than you generally are. It's organized, it has got direction, everything is in its place. You try to do that in your chaotic household

polygamous society

If a polygamous society develops which is the alternative of monogamy, then a small minority of men get all the women and also making the women unhappy because the women don't have any access to a genuine intimate one-to-one relationship over any long period of time

If there is one thing to be a fanatic about it's your health. Take care of yourself. The Bible describes it this way: treat your body like a temple. That's a good word. Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed, a temple - something you take extremely good care of

Ant's philosophy - Ant's don't settle for half. They go for all

To feel good about yourself do the best you can. Gather all you can during the summer. We call that the Ant's philosophy. Ant's don't settle for half. They go for all. All you possibly can, do the best you can. The greatest lift of self esteem is doing the best you can

If you put more effort and more time and focus into your work whatever it would be whether it's a podcast or your YouTube videos or whatever if people enjoy it they gravitate towards it and then over time it exponentially increases the amount of people that are exposed to it

If you don't like how it is for you change it!
If it doesn't suit you change it!
If it doesn't please you change it!
If it isn't enough change it!
And I challenge you to do that because you can change.
You don't ever have to be the same again after tonight only by choice

What is lesser self?

What is lesser self? The lesser self world be resentful and bitter and aggressive and vengeance seeking and all of those things that go along with having a negative moral character and those are things that interfere with your ability to progress as you move forward through life

What does it mean to have a meaningful life?

What does it mean to have a meaningful life exactly? Maybe it means to take responsibility, because your sacrifices have to be worth something. It has to have some meat what you are aiming at. It has to be something that can elevate your worm-like self to the level of tolerability

Women are high Pergamus which means they meet across a knop dominance hierarchies and so if you're a male who's successful in a given hierarchy the probability that you're gonna have additional mating opportunities is exceptionally high. It's an unbelievably good predictor of that

Self motivation

Key phrase - self motivation. You’ve got to motivate yourself because I found out you can’t change people. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. People have to change themselves. It takes self motivation to really alter your life

How do you make the world better?

How do you make the world better? Tell the truth! Because the world you bring into being as a consequence of telling the truth will be a good world. I think it's true metaphorically, I think it's true theologically and I think it's true at the practical and scientific level as well