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“Sometimes it's not what you do differently it's what you do consistently. I approached solving my life’s problems from many different angles. I used to try to be perfect, not in the literal sense, but coasting right below in that realistic level of high performance. That was my desire. It did not happen though, yet that desire did not die. Ironically, as I fell into deeper adversity, it grew. As I dug for China, I knew the comeback would make the suffering worth it. It’s like what Viktor E. Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” I felt the meaning for my self imposed suffering was the honorable character I would later possess; it had to be.”

“It's like what Charles Duhigg was saying in The Power of Habit about advertising, you have to create a craving for the reward. This takes time and doing so is more productive than posting every day and having unrealistic expectations of your followers. Essentially, people expect others to treat them a certain way but are ironically ignorant to how impractical and uninspired they would be if they had to fulfill that same expectation for someone else.”

“Rich Roll said you have to be more afraid of your current situation than you are afraid of change. I am sure we all can relate to events that crept up on us and forced us to make changes. The good news is that you don't have to wait until things creep up on you. You don't have to wait until the negative 1% adds up over time. You can change your state now.”

“Different looks like building up the motivation, determination, and mental energy to knock out 15 hours of deep work and then call it a day. This either never happens or you end up burnt out for the rest of the week.”