# Personal Development (MoC) ## Notes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #personal_development AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #personal_development AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[12 favorite questions or problems]] - [[42 Life Lessons At 42]] - [[A path is helpful, but having the confidence is crucial]] - [[About the environment we create for our kids]] - [[Accept the unstable and try to be as agile and adaptable as possible within it]] - [[Anger is considered as one of the main emotions]] - [[Angry ruminations might remain under the surface, but are still major problems]] - [[Anxiety is part of the human condition]] - [[Are my thoughts useful]] - [[Attachment Theory]] - [[Avoiding Cognitive Overload (Article)]] - [[Be mindful also during negative moments]] - [[Be successful on your terms]] - [[Being an introvert is not a weakness]] - [[Belief System Defenses]] - [[Bending, not breaking]] - [[Benefits of journaling]] - [[Boldness is a skill]] - [[Bring your own self wherever you go]] - [[By controlling our emotions we can be better focused, more organized and less distracted]] - [[Calm businesses are a viable path]] - [[Calm businesses are a viable path too (Article)]] - [[Career Design]] - [[CBT Principles]] - [[CBT Strategies]] - [[Change the circumstances that you can change and cope with those you can't]] - [[Chasing Joy Over Career - Why Happiness Should Be Your Priority Now (Article)]] - [[Choice overload]] - [[Choisir, c'est renoncer]] - [[Choosing is refusing]] - [[Choosing means inviting life]] - [[Closing Open Loops - The Key to a Calmer, More Productive Mind (Article)]] - [[Coaches help achieve clarity, set a goal and choose what to focus on, build a plan towards success, initiate the change and go through the journey]] - [[Coaches help better manage and decrease negative emotions]] - [[Coaches help increase positive emotions]] - [[Coaches help people organize their brains for change]] - [[Coaches need to have a good understanding of how the brain works, and thus knowledge about psychology and neuroscience]] - [[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)]] - [[Comparing ourselves to others is toxic]] - [[Conditions of great and fulfilling work]] - [[Controlling attention, emotions, thoughts, actions and desires is key to success]] - [[Core values examples]] - [[Daily Questions method]] - [[Dale Carnegie]] - [[Decide what you want, and do not stop]] - [[Decision avoidance is refusing to grow out of fear]] - [[Delayed gratification]] - [[Discipline comes through self-control]] - [[Do you really know what brings you happiness]] - [[Don't believe everything the voice in your head is saying]] - [[Don't blindly listen to your inner voice]] - [[Don't fight the wind]] - [[Don't steal your own happiness]] - [[Don't stop at the social identity to judge who someone is]] - [[Don't take life advice from unhappy or unfulfilled people]] - [[Eckhart Tolle]] - [[Embrace new paths in life and destiny]] - [[Embrace solitude]] - [[Enjoy life]] - [[Enjoy the pride of doing something well]] - [[Evaluate your productivity on a daily basis and try to understand why it was what it was]] - [[Evening Routine]] - [[Everything we experiment is in interaction with our mind]] - [[Everything you need is already within you]] - [[Existensial angst]] - [[Extrinsic motivation]] - [[Failure is important]] - [[Failure teaches us more than success]] - [[Favorable principle]] - [[Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)]] - [[Feedback loops of encouragement and discouragement]] - [[Feeling a void]] - [[Fill your life with what you like]] - [[Five big lessons for life]] - [[Five Whys Technique]] - [[Focus on how you can become a better version of yourself]] - [[Food for thought]] - [[Forgive your old self]] - [[Fourth place]] - [[Freedom leads to anxiety, then boredom, then peace]] - [[Going offline is good for mental health]] - [[Going through depression and dark times (Article)]] - [[Gradually, then suddenly]] - [[Gravity problems]] - [[Happiness is when nothing is missing in the moment]] - [[Happy place]] - [[Having a destination and a direction helps]] - [[Heat waves]] - [[Hedonic treadmill]] - [[How do you describe yourself to yourself]] - [[How to achieve Work-Life Balance to Improve Your Well-Being (Article)]] - [[How to be more grateful]] - [[How to communicate with your future self]] - [[How to communicate with your future self (Article)]] - [[How to create your Personal AI Master Prompt]] - [[How to define your life goals]] - [[How to define your personal principles]] - [[How to determine your Personal Value System]] - [[How to Feel Better Every Day with an Evening Routine (Article)]] - [[How to fight against decision fatigue (Article)]] - [[How to get started with journaling]] - [[How to identify your values]] - [[How to stop being average]] - [[How to Structure Your Daily Notes in Obsidian (Article)]] - [[I've been too nice throughout my life]] - [[Identify weaknesses you have in your behavior]] - [[Identify your key motivations. Write those down, and think about those regularly]] - [[If you can't remove the big stressors in your life, then focus on better managing negative emotions]] - [[If you feel overwhelmed, go to open spaces]] - [[Important skills for children to succeed]] - [[Impostor syndrome]] - [[Improving your personal organization will improve your self-esteem]] - [[Indecision is a decision]] - [[Individuation]] - [[Information Silos hurt personal and professional growth]] - [[Instant gratification]] - [[Instant gratification syndrome]] - [[Intellectual Capital]] - [[Intrinsic motivation]] - [[It's hard to change when your environment is not supportive or actively working against you]] - [[It's later than you think (Article)]] - [[Journaling every day is powerful Part 1 - Introduction (Article)]] - [[Journaling every day is powerful Part 2 - Going Further (Article)]] - [[Joy Of Missing Out (JOMO)]] - [[Keep the power to end things]] - [[Keep the power to end things (Article)]] - [[Know thyself]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-08-20 - Journaling Deep Dive]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-11-18 - OSK v3 Deep Dive Workshop]] - [[Knowii Community Events]] - [[Lessons learned (2021 edition)]] - [[Leverage your key strengths]] - [[Life Design]] - [[Life design (2021 edition)]] - [[Life Tracker plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Life-changing decisions are hard and painful to make]] - [[LifeOS]] - [[Living on default]] - [[Locust of control]] - [[Love is a choice]] - [[Make a conscious effort to think in order to remain rational and calm down]] - [[Make peace with the past]] - [[Making decisions when emotions lead the way is a bad decision]] - [[Mantra to forgive yourself]] - [[Maslow's Hierarchy of needs]] - [[Me is mind and body]] - [[Meeting with yourself (Article)]] - [[Metronomes and momentum]] - [[Mindfulness]] - [[Mindset is critical to success]] - [[Mindset shifts]] - [[Miracle Morning]] - [[Misguided education]] - [[Mistakes are lessons. Lessons are gifts. Therefore, mistakes are gifts]] - [[Money is a tool, not a goal]] - [[30 Areas/33 Permanent notes/33.02 Content/Morning Routine.md|Morning Routine]] - [[Most people are scared to be left with their own thoughts alone]] - [[Negative emotions arise from projections of future events, not by what's happening right now. When you start feeling overwhelmed, focus your attention on the present moment. Take the day one moment at at time]] - [[Net negatives]] - [[Not learning from your mistakes can lead to a life of regret]] - [[On distractions, learning, and growth]] - [[On the importance of knowing your personal values]] - [[On the importance of non-goals (Article)]] - [[On The Importance Of Writing (Article)]] - [[Once we know where we are and where we want to go, we can start our journey by creating a vision for our future selves]] - [[Optimism, pessimism and freedom (Article)]] - [[Optimize for an empty calendar]] - [[Optimizing for happiness]] - [[Our perspective on the past keeps evolving]] - [[Overlapping realities]] - [[Overwhelmed By Life Today (OBLT)]] - [[Patience is a powerful life skill]] - [[Paying attention fosters well-being]] - [[Periodic reviews]] - [[Periodic Reviews for a Happier and More Productive Life (Article)]] - [[Persistence is key]] - [[Personal Learning System (PLS)]] - [[Personal Manifesto]] - [[Personal System (PS)]] - [[Personal Value System]] - [[Positive and negative coping skills]] - [[Practice daily gratitude]] - [[Progressive Distillation]] - [[Psychology of change]] - [[Psychology of procrastination]] - [[Put energy into things within your control]] - [[Questions we can use to explore how organized we currently are]] - [[Reflection as a journaling practice]] - [[Regularly reflect on what your future self will look like]] - [[Restricting your speech backpropagates to restricting your thoughts]] - [[SAVERS framework]] - [[Saving and Restoring Mental Contexts to Improve Mental Health and Productivity (Article)]] - [[Saving and restoring your mental contexts to improve mental health and productivity]] - [[Savor small moments on the journey]] - [[Say what you mean and mean what you say]] - [[Scopos (σκοπός)]] - [[Seek a stable situation and build within it]] - [[Self-awareness is a necessary precondition for change]] - [[Self-control requires effort but strengthens our mind]] - [[Self-discipline requires self-control]] - [[Self-Improvement]] - [[Self-regulation]] - [[Seven rules for a rewarding life]] - [[Shadow Side]] - [[Someone’s X isn’t absence of your own]] - [[Sometimes we fail to recognize opportunities]] - [[Sources of advantages]] - [[Spend more time doing things you never regret]] - [[Stadium of selves]] - [[Stop Losing Your Best Ideas - The Journaling System That Changed My Life (Article)]] - [[Stop waiting for the right time]] - [[Strong opinions held weakly]] - [[Style = individuality + charisma]] - [[Surround yourself with people who force you to level up]] - [[System-Based Productivity]] - [[Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control (Article)]] - [[Take Radical Ownership of Your Life and Career]] - [[The challenges of attention]] - [[The crucial role of setting and pursuing goals]] - [[The Crucial Role of Setting and Pursuing Goals (Article)]] - [[The Gap vs The Gain]] - [[The long time horizon is exceptionally difficult for the average person]] - [[The more empty your mind, the faster it gets. The more cluttered your mind, the slower it gets]] - [[The mythical right time]] - [[The mythical right time - Don't Wait to Chase Your Dreams (Article)]] - [[The mythical right time (Article)]] - [[The only thing that is real is the present]] - [[The parable of the second arrow]] - [[The Paradox of choice]] - [[The relationship between Journaling, Personal Health, and Growth]] - [[The void in our lives]] - [[There is a choice between not doing and feeling bad and doing and maybe failing]] - [[There is often pathology in silence]] - [[Think less about the future, the things you hope might happen or the things you fear may happen. They rob you of the present]] - [[Thoughts are not reality. They're just creations of our mind]] - [[Three good things technique]] - [[Time Horizons]] - [[Tips to avoid overthinking]] - [[Tips to fight negative thoughts]] - [[Tips to get more often in the zone]] - [[Tips to stay calm]] - [[Tips to teach kids self-regulation]] - [[Tips to understand and tame frenzy]] - [[To function at our best, we need to align emotion and cognition; feeling and thinking]] - [[To measure yourself, compare where you are vs where you started]] - [[Today is all we'll ever have]] - [[Top 10 reasons why goals are so important]] - [[Train your mind to remain calm]] - [[Trauma leads to triumph]] - [[Two-year test]] - [[Unconscious bias training]] - [[Understand the intention behind your actions]] - [[Understanding Eventual Reciprocity (Article)]] - [[Unlearning things is as important as learning new ones]] - [[Unlocking Your Learning Potential The Essential Guide to Meta-Learning (Article)]] - [[Value criticism over compliments]] - [[Values are attributes of the person you want to become]] - [[Values are the why and beliefs are the how]] - [[Vision board]] - [[Vision grid]] - [[We can't control time. But we can control how we use ours]] - [[We create our very own prisons]] - [[We have to simplify our lives]] - [[We need to hold ourselves accountable the same way we hold ourselves accountable in front of others]] - [[We need to learn to deliver commitments we make to ourselves]] - [[What are your personal principles]] - [[What does success look like to you in 6 months from now]] - [[What is your Ikigai]] - [[What is your purpose]] - [[What time horizons to consider]] - [[Where do you want to be in 3 years]] - [[Why Take and Make Notes (Article)]] - [[Why Test]] - [[Why time horizons matter]] - [[Why you should focus on happiness first]] - [[Work Life Balance (Article)]] - [[Work life integration]] - [[Work on your list of why's]] - [[You can't save people from themselves]] - [[You cannot attract what you want if you are feeling stress]] - [[You cannot choose well if you choose only using your rational mind]] - [[You don't have to work all the time]] - [[You Need a Fourth Place A Space to Think (Article)]] - [[You won't decide how you feel about the decision until the decision is made]] - [[Your body knows]] - [[Your habits and routines make you (Article)]] - [[Your ideal day]] - [[Your value does not only depend on your performances]] - [[Zen Productivity]] - [[Zone of genius]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #personal_development AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #personal_development AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials]] - [[A genius is the one most like himself]] - [[A key to live a happier life is to realize that no matter how hard we try, there is actually very little that we can control or influence. And what we can't control or influence, we should not worry too much about, and accept]] - [[A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth]] - [[A lot of things can happen between now and never]] - [[A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. And if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free]] - [[A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes]] - [[A man is great not because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him]] - [[A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life]] - [[A sense of universal responsibility has the power to negate adverse traits]] - [[Act and be like a lake that reflects the sky and has no doubts]] - [[Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been]] - [[Aldous Huxley about ego]] - [[Aldous Huxley about enlightenment]] - [[All past events are just steps of your personal legend]] - [[All self-help boils down to choose long-term over short-term]] - [[All that happens means something. Nothing you do is ever insignificant]] - [[Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you've made. Especially the progress no one else can see]] - [[Always know what you want. Do the work. Dreams are not free]] - [[Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it's not what the world takes away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left]] - [[Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come]] - [[Always think about who you need to become. It will push you to leave your comfort zone behind, and take a step ahead]] - [[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye]] - [[Any person capable of angering you becomes your master]] - [[Appear as you are, be as you appear]] - [[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live]] - [[As you start to walk on the way, the way appears]] - [[At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with]] - [[At time we crack, only to let the light in]] - [[Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom]] - [[Bad habits are coping mechanisms for deeper issues]] - [[Be better each day]] - [[Be kind to yourself]] - [[Be loyal to your future, not your past]] - [[Be open-minded and be willing to see things with new eyes, to test hypotheses like a scientist. Be open-minded]] - [[Be patient, good things come to those who wait]] - [[Be someone you would be proud to know]] - [[Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you]] - [[Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you]] - [[Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people]] - [[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind]] - [[Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself]] - [[Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken]] - [[Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self]] - [[Being creative is the opposite of anxiety. But you can’t get to creativity if you don’t start with acceptance and compassion and simple kindness toward the self, toward the parts of the self that are doing the things you can’t stand]] - [[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage]] - [[Better thinking makes you a better person. And writing is a great way to improve your thinking]] - [[Better to live life erring on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Be realistic, but, as Monty Python would say, always look on the bright side of life]] - [[Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are]] - [[By simply breaking some of your more ingrained habits you will help dissolve away your suffering]] - [[Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be]] - [[Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner]] - [[Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful]] - [[Change is not a straight line to the finish. It's a winding road]] - [[Change is often difficult, but vital for growth]] - [[Change what you're doing, to change where you're going]] - [[Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed]] - [[Character is fate]] - [[Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else]] - [[Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success]] - [[Choose less and feel better]] - [[Choose what, when and how to change carefully and thoughtfully]] - [[Circumstances don't make the man. They only reveal him to himself]] - [[Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world]] - [[Comfort is a slow death]] - [[Comparing ourselves to others is the best way to suffer]] - [[Comparison is poison]] - [[Comparison is the death of joy]] - [[Comparison is the thief of joy]] - [[Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do]] - [[Confidence comes from how you talk to yourself about the adversity you’ve faced and the hardships you’ve overcome]] - [[Confidence is not they will like me. Confidence is I'll be fine if they don't]] - [[Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control]] - [[Conquer your mind, and you can have anything]] - [[Conquer yourself rather than the world]] - [[Constant learning, growth, and expansion of your knowledge is critical to success. The moment you stop learning is the moment you stop growing. That's why Knowledge Management is so valuable]] - [[Control your emotions or they will control you]] - [[Convince yourself every day that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well]] - [[Create systems to protect you from your lower self]] - [[Creating a clear vision of your ideal destination is an important early and ongoing step for your journey]] - [[Creating is living twice]] - [[Curiosity is a deep and powerful human drive. It pushes us to explore and grow]] - [[Day by day, what you do is who you become]] - [[Death makes us more aware of life and its beauty]] - [[Decisions are only the first step, the beginning of something new. Decisions open doors, but you still have to go through those to reach your destination]] - [[Decisions don't create change. Actions do]] - [[Detachment is power. Clear anything that disturbs your mental health]] - [[Disconnecting from people to reconnect with yourself and feel like you again is top tier self-care]] - [[Distinguish good pain from bad pain]] - [[Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives]] - [[Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world]] - [[Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment]] - [[Do not ever let circumstances dim your light. Warrior, shine ever so bright]] - [[Do not settle for average when you have the ability to achieve greatness]] - [[Do the best you can. No one can do more than that]] - [[Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't]] - [[Don't be impatient about realizing your dreams or you might miss signs that could help you. Don't focus too much on the future. Just let it be. Come what may]] - [[Don't break yourself just to fit into someone's life]] - [[Don't chase people. Work hard and be yourself. Under these two principles the right people will find their way into your life]] - [[Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to what you were before]] - [[Don't complain. Just rebuild your life in private and shock everyone who doubted you]] - [[Don't fix depression. Fix your lifestyle]] - [[Don't focus on you, focus on what you can give others]] - [[Don't kill what you hate say what you love]] - [[Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell your how to tie your laces]] - [[Don't let anyone's ignorance, hate, drama or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be]] - [[Don’t let yourself be controlled by three things. People, money, or past experiences]] - [[Don't let yourself get distracted. Keep following your path]] - [[Don't regret the past, just learn from it]] - [[Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go]] - [[Don't say anything unless you're sure it's worth hearing]] - [[Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you]] - [[Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you]] - [[Don't think about what you've left behind. The only way to learn is through action. If you want to learn, then act. Do]] - [[Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone]] - [[Don't underestimate the power of thinking about one sentence]] - [[During difficult times, ask yourself. What do I have to do to make this one of the best things that has ever happened to me]] - [[Each individual, not society or religion, is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or authentically]] - [[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most]] - [[Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all]] - [[Education doesn't imply wisdom]] - [[Education is a gift that shapes the future]] - [[Embody peace and confidence. Free yourself from doubts, anxiety and fear. Don't let your past or others decide what your own future should look like]] - [[Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things]] - [[Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think]] - [[Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become]] - [[Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind]] - [[Every next level of your life will require a new version of you]] - [[Every reader finds himself]] - [[Every time you judge someone, you reveal a part of yourself that needs healing]] - [[Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed]] - [[Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own]] - [[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself]] - [[Everyone thinks they know how we should be living. They want us to conform and try to influence us consciously or not. But no one knows how life should be lived, whether it's their own or someone else's]] - [[Everything can be taken from a man but one thing. The last of the human freedoms, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances]] - [[Everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality, but upon the perception of reality]] - [[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves]] - [[Failing is a way to grow. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you grow]] - [[Failure is proof that you are growing. Fail forward]] - [[Fear is the only thing that gets smaller when you run towards it]] - [[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of]] - [[Feedback is a tool to influence, support, and help others grow. Use it wisely]] - [[Feynman used to keep 12 favorite problems in his mind and tested new ideas against them]] - [[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could]] - [[Finish your days satisfied with your work]] - [[Focus on clarity, calmness, and certainty when choosing your thoughts and actions]] - [[Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself]] - [[Focus on now, make it better and the future will get brighter as a result]] - [[Focus on problems, they grow. Focus on solutions, you grow]] - [[Focus on what gives meaning to your life. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it fulfills you and gives you joy]] - [[Follow your curiosity. It might lead you to your passion or it might not]] - [[Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now]] - [[For now, ask yourself, 'Who do you want to be' Don’t ask yourself what you want to achieve. Honestly, the world already decides so much of that for you]] - [[For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. The solution is always within reach. You just have to decide]] - [[Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach]] - [[Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past]] - [[Freedom is also about freeing ourselves from conscious and unconscious internal orders]] - [[From beliefs to destiny]] - [[Get what you want and want what you get]] - [[Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here]] - [[Grapes must be crushed to make wine. Diamonds are formed under pressure. Olives are pressed to release oil. Seeds grow in the Dark]] - [[Grow through what you go through]] - [[Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong]] - [[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know]] - [[Happiness is something that multiplies when it divides]] - [[Happiness is your reality minus your expectations]] - [[Happiness should come from within, not from where we are, who we are with or what we have]] - [[Hardships are forcing functions for personal growth]] - [[Have a why, and be relentlessly obsessed with completing small things so you don’t get overwhelmed]] - [[Have faith in your life and in your destiny]] - [[Help others to be their best self and you will become your best self]] - [[How can I be my greatest lover]] - [[Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few]] - [[Humility is having a good grasp on what we're good at and what we're not. And having confidence in both]] - [[I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become]] - [[I believe that personal knowledge management is self-care on a fundamental level]] - [[I can be happy anywhere]] - [[I don’t have confidence in myself, I have evidence]] - [[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well]] - [[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value]] - [[I learned who I am by unlearning who they taught me to be]] - [[I want to find my own place. And set a new kind of pace. Get lost in spiritual space. Changing the human race]] - [[I will inspire the world just by being me]] - [[I'm in charge of my worries and my fears]] - [[If I go back in time and change my story, I won't be myself anymore. I'd lose myself, and I don't want that]] - [[If I must fall, may it be from a high place]] - [[If it hurts to hear it, look for the truth in it. If it comforts to hear it, look for the lie in it]] - [[If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth]] - [[If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try]] - [[If it's not actionable, it's not a problem. It's a circumstance]] - [[If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less]] - [[If life must not be taken too seriously. Then so neither must death]] - [[If only school would teach us to learn and act on information instead of shoving it down our throats, then lots of knowledge workers would actually achieve something]] - [[If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes -- then learn how to do it later]] - [[If there is something holding you back in your life. Identify it. Focus on breaking past it. It will change your life]] - [[If they don't value my time, they don't deserve my attention]] - [[If we don’t define enough, we default to more, which makes it impossible to understand when to say no]] - [[If you accept conventional wisdom from people living conventional lives, can you expect to be anything but conventional]] - [[If you are insecure, guess what. The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think]] - [[If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself]] - [[If you are pained by external things, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it]] - [[If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror]] - [[If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears]] - [[If you can always live in the present, you will be happy. You can only live in the present, not in the past nor in the future]] - [[If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win]] - [[If you can't be first, be better. If you can't be better, be different]] - [[If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change]] - [[If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place]] - [[If you don't achieve your dreams but have actually tried, you will die in a much better position than all those who never pursued those]] - [[If you don't conquer yourself, you'll be conquered by yourself]] - [[If you don't know who you are, there are plenty of people who will give you their opinion]] - [[If you don't leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away]] - [[If you feel like it's miserable and hard, stop making yourself do the hard thing… It's better to accept that you're lazy and cowardly, and then make it easy enough so you can do it anyway. That's my whole strategy with life]] - [[If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come]] - [[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us]] - [[If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities]] - [[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun]] - [[If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful]] - [[If you really want something, stop chasing it]] - [[If you want to be rewarded, be irreplaceable]] - [[If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself]] - [[If you're struggling, take a step back and remember it's not about you]] - [[If your life just got harder, that means you've leveled up]] - [[Impostor syndrome is what happens when even I can’t believe just how amazing I am]] - [[In between goals is this thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed]] - [[In the depths of our true Self we are peace, freedom, well-being, and contentment]] - [[In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years]] - [[Intelligence isn't a collection of skills. It's the efficiency with which you acquire and deploy new skills. It's an efficiency ratio]] - [[Invest in your personal knowledge. Make it compound and see how it helps you grow. Then leverage it with AI and observe how it acts as a force multiplier for impact]] - [[Isolation is a gift]] - [[It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it]] - [[It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going]] - [[It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction]] - [[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]] - [[It is inevitable, if you enter into relations with people on a regular basis, that you will grow to be like them]] - [[It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom]] - [[It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till]] - [[It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are]] - [[It's during the worst storms of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care about you]] - [[It's never too late to explore a new path in life, to start a new journey]] - [[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are]] - [[It's not sex that brings us meaning. It's not power that brings us meaning. Suffering brings us meaning]] - [[It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters]] - [[It's now or never. If it's not now, it means later. But later could turn into never. Fight against the natural tendency to do stuff 'later']] - [[It's okay and even recommended to revisit and change your goals along the way]] - [[It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit]] - [[It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path]] - [[It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future]] - [[It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you]] - [[Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness]] - [[Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape]] - [[Knowledge Management goes way beyond productivity. It's a means to learn more about yourself, and your dreams, develop your potential, and live the life you were meant to live]] - [[Knowledge Management isn't a separate activity. It should be part of everything you do, fully integrated into your life]] - [[Le seul véritable voyage, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux]] - [[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning]] - [[Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest]] - [[Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final]] - [[Let opportunities do their thing give yourself a chance]] - [[Life is a marathon, not a sprint]] - [[Life is about wanting what you get, not getting what you want]] - [[Life is hard, but we make it much harder]] - [[Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing]] - [[Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get]] - [[Life is not a novel to be read, but to be written]] - [[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind]] - [[Life is ten percent what happens to you, and ninety percent how you respond to it]] - [[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself]] - [[Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown, even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to]] - [[Listen to your heart, go where it guides you and you shall be happy]] - [[Listen to your soul. You're the only one able to decipher it. If you don't, you risk living someone else's life]] - [[Live a life true to yourself and worry less about what others expect of you]] - [[Live every single day fully, so that when the time has come to leave this world, you won't have regrets]] - [[Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is]] - [[Look, every day is an opportunity to make better decisions, to grow and to learn]] - [[Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation]] - [[Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things]] - [[Make the most of yourself. For that is all there is of you]] - [[Make your heart the most beautiful thing about you]] - [[Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish. It's self care]] - [[Many people see the world as full of dangers and for that reason it becomes dangerous to them]] - [[Maturity starts when the individual feels responsible for his or her own life]] - [[Midlife is when the universe gently places her hands on your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear. I'm not screwing around. It's time to show up and be seen]] - [[Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win]] - [[Most of the time change isn't painful. It's our resistance to change that is painful]] - [[Most of your limitations are self-imposed. If you want something, there’s always a way - your mind just won’t let you see it]] - [[Most people are unable to choose their destiny, let alone fight for it]] - [[Necessity is the brave teacher. Who leads us to brilliant questions. She’s like a determined preacher. Who shares bold insights and suggestions]] - [[Never change for someone. If they can't accept you for who you are at your worst, they don't deserve to see you at your best]] - [[Never compare the insides of your life to the outsides of someone else's]] - [[Never complain, never explain. Let your actions speak for themselves]] - [[Never give up on your dreams because your heart never will and you will forever feel a void and will regret not pursuing those and regret is far worse than failure]] - [[Never let an old flame burn you twice]] - [[Never let anyone disturb your composure, deter your accomplishment, or destroy your happiness]] - [[Never let someone's perception determine who you are]] - [[Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories]] - [[Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, worst days give you lessons, and best days give you memories]] - [[Never stop being a good person because of bad people]] - [[Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching]] - [[Never stop learning. The moment you believe you have all the answers is the moment you stop growing]] - [[No lifetime, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you cannot learn to love yourself and be yourself]] - [[No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river, and he's not the same man]] - [[No matter how good a person you are, you are evil in someone's story]] - [[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent]] - [[No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may]] - [[No plan for your life will survive contact with reality]] - [[No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go]] - [[None of us chooses how we start this life, but we have a big role in deciding how we finish]] - [[Normalize being smart enough to listen to smarter people]] - [[Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life]] - [[Not having any expectations in life is a pretty big expectation in itself]] - [[Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me]] - [[Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing]] - [[Nothing taught by force stays in the soul]] - [[Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you]] - [[One day, someone is going to hold you so tight that all your broken pieces fit back together]] - [[One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning]] - [[Only compare yourself to yourself]] - [[Only focus on what you can control]] - [[Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others]] - [[Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers]] - [[Our existence depends on our choices. And our choices create an infinity of different worlds]] - [[Our judgements about the world tell us a great deal about ourselves and very little about the world]] - [[Our perceptions make up our reality. But it's up to us to change those, and see things in a different light]] - [[Overthinking kills your happiness]] - [[Overwhelm is a mindset issue]] - [[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional]] - [[Pain is information]] - [[Pain plus reflection equals progress]] - [[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be]] - [[People are scared of achieving their dreams because they believe they don't deserve to, or fear not being able to. Their beliefs and fears hold them back]] - [[People care way too much about status. They are stuck playing status games]] - [[People don't even realize that they keep following new paths every day. Every day is an opportunity to explore, discover, learn and grow, for every single path is unique]] - [[People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t]] - [[Perception is not passive. There is no perception without action. All perceptions are action driven]] - [[Perfection is found in accepting your imperfections]] - [[Plan in decades, live in moments]] - [[Plans for the future need to be reviewed regularly because we change all the time]] - [[Principles are recipes for success]] - [[Productivity ultimately boils down to learning how to generate enough dopamine at the right places at the right time]] - [[Promise me you'll always remember. You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think]] - [[Put your mind in an environment – physical or digital – where it is near forced to expand]] - [[Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit]] - [[Quit looking back. That's not the direction you're going]] - [[Radical optimism opens doors, and ignores those that won't open. Problems and roadblocks are opportunities. Ideas are infinite]] - [[Reading deeply changes the way we perceive the world. It changes us and the way we act]] - [[Renewal is what happens when you realize that some of this stuff you’ve been carrying around doesn’t matter]] - [[Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing]] - [[Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people that stress you out]] - [[Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old]] - [[Self knowledge is the best knowledge]] - [[Self knowledge is the root of maturity]] - [[Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it]] - [[Si vous vivez votre vie selon le regard des autres, vous ne vivrez jamais votre vie]] - [[Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers]] - [[Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go]] - [[Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story]] - [[Sometimes in life, you have to make tough decisions. even it's not the most popular decision. Many won't because it's tough. But at the end of the day, you have to do what you feel right despite what everyone thinks]] - [[Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than ever before, so that you can stand up taller than you ever were before]] - [[Sometimes, when you're different, you feel like a mistake. While in reality, difference is a gift, an advantage, real wealth]] - [[Start every day with a new hope, leave bad memories behind, and have faith for a better tomorrow]] - [[Start from wherever you are. That's fine, you're not late]] - [[Start with writing. The rest will follow. Clear writing means clear thinking, which makes speaking clearly much easier]] - [[Status games only flatter your ego. They don't lead anywhere meaningful]] - [[Staying calm in a situation that used to stress you out is a powerful sign of growth]] - [[Stop hating yourself for everything you aren't. Start loving yourself for everything that you are]] - [[Stop looking back on your life journey. 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It's like a virus that you need to spread around, no matter what]] - [[The goal isn't to be free from stress, but to be unaffected by stress and channel it in a desired way]] - [[The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray]] - [[The greatest lie we tell ourselves is I have time]] - [[The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything]] - [[The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one]] - [[The longer the time horizon, and the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The longer the time horizon, the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away]] - [[The misery comes from within. The happiness comes from without]] - [[The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. 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Impatience and Laziness]] - [[There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will]] - [[There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look]] - [[There is no passion to be found playing small, and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living]] - [[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self]] - [[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self]] - [[There will always be reasons to do nothing and talk yourself out of moving forward in life]] - [[There's a big gap between knowing something and acting based on what we know]] - [[There's a difference between giving up and letting go]] - [[There's no point in making a good choice poorly]] - [[Think of you life as an experiment]] - [[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind]] - [[Time spent undistracted and alone resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit]] - [[Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted]] - [[To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing]] - [[To bring order into our lives we must identify problematic patterns that don't work, and replace those with new ones that do]] - [[To compare yourself means to hurt yourself]] - [[To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable]] - [[To earn the respect of others, first learn to respect your own self]] - [[To heal a wound you must stop scratching it]] - [[To know yourself is the beginning of wisdom]] - [[To measure yourself, compare where you are versus where you started]] - [[To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. 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But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering]] - [[We accept truth only because we have rejected it in the depth of our soul]] - [[We all fear losing what we have, but that fear disappears when we realize that we can rebuild and regain whatever we had before, if we really want it]] - [[We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one]] - [[We all see the world as we'd like the things to happen, and not as they actually happen. We look at the world through a distorted lens]] - [[We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to write]] - [[We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral. We have already climbed many steps]] - [[We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think]] - [[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be]] - [[We are what we repeatedly do. 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We need to welcome and embrace those with gratitude]] - [[We need to externalize our thinking to feel less overwhelmed and think more deeply]] - [[We never notice the treasures that are right in front of us because we are unable to believe it]] - [[We pretend to be strong because we are weak]] - [[We punish ourselves for what makes us different]] - [[We should all have big and hairy goals. Even if those are too ambitious and impossible to achieve, working towards such goals will often help us realize our full potential. We will also be surprised by how far we can go]] - [[What can you learn. What can you teach. Those are two powerful questions worth pondering]] - [[What got you here won't get you there]] - [[What in your life is calling you]] - [[What others think about you is not important. What you think about yourself means everything]] - [[What we need most in life is someone who will make us do what we are capable of]] - [[What we think we become]] - [[What we think, we become]] - [[Whatever happens, happens. You can either fight it or accept it. Better to invest energy into changing the future instead of wasting it trying to change the past. Reframing is everything]] - [[Whatever you are feeling right now, it's okay to just sit with it for a while. Whether it's joy, sadness, indifference, anger. It's what makes us human, and that is enough]] - [[When a man can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure]] - [[When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong]] - [[When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive]] - [[When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen]] - [[When there's no way back, all you can do is focus on the best way to move forward]] - [[When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting]] - [[When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves]] - [[When we try to become better and improve everything around us improves as well]] - [[When you are in your own lane there is no traffic]] - [[When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born]] - [[When you choose what to watch or read, you are choosing your future thoughts and perspectives. 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Who looks inside, awakes]] - [[Winners who come from behind, are winners nonetheless]] - [[Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness]] - [[Wishes don't create change. Decisions do]] - [[With a proper PKM system in place, you can avoid information overload, declutter your mind, gain clarity, and grow]] - [[Work as little as possible to feel fulfilled and to live a happy life]] - [[Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you]] - [[Worrying is suffering twice]] - [[You actually don't want to be a millionaire. You want freedom]] - [[You always have a choice. To be a victim or to take responsibility for your life and show appreciation for everything you have. You get to choose how to live your life]] - [[You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars. 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You can only connect them looking backwards]] - [[You can't easily move forward with a rain cloud from the past following you around]] - [[You can’t grow until you admit you were wrong]] - [[You can't solve a problem you're not willing to have]] - [[You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf]] - [[You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you]] - [[You don’t feel lonely when you are alone, you feel lonely when you don’t give yourself the care you need]] - [[You don't find your true self, you just create it day after day. And either you do it subconsciously or intentionally]] - [[You don't get what you deserve. You get what you decide you deserve. But you gotta decide]] - [[You don't have to be exceptional. 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