“In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in a country like the United States, It was white men who basically had the privileges - or, you name whatever country it is, there's some group of elites who, through various processes of democratization and things like the internet and the information that's available. It's exploding!” PeopleMenShouldCountryStatesAblePastNamesProcessWhiteUnitedUnited StatesGroupsInformationInternetPrivilegeVariousAvailableBe GoodElitesWhite ManExplodingDemocratization Author:Robert Greene
“If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.” IfsWantKindFormToo MuchInformationParticular Author:Robert Greene
“There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingBlameExcuseBlaming Others Author:Robert Greene
“I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.” ThinkingKindPersonsActionCausesSportsInterestDramaStrategyCoachesInstanceStrategicStrategic ThinkingThinking Person Author:Robert Greene
“As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesIdeasGamesBitsLittle BitStealingNastyNaivePlaying GamesManipulative Author:Robert Greene
“I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.” ThinkingWantKindPersonsEnoughLiteratureLanguageBackgroundsAnalyzing Author:Robert Greene
“It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.” LooksPlanetsIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene
“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?” KnowsKindFilmLanguageStudyTheoryDegreesMajorsYeahPostsGreekPrizeLatinIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene