# Success (MoC)
## Notes
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- [[Action changes everything]]
- [[Ambitious goals make things happen]]
- [[Avoiding hard work]]
- [[Be successful on your terms]]
- [[Being successful at work is a combination of having impact and aligning with management that it is indeed impactful]]
- [[Celebrate your wins]]
- [[Chasing Joy Over Career - Why Happiness Should Be Your Priority Now (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]]
- [[Consistency builds momentum]]
- [[Consistency is key]]
- [[Controlling attention, emotions, thoughts, actions and desires is key to success]]
- [[Deferred lifestyle]]
- [[Delayed gratification]]
- [[Don't let the system make a fool out of you]]
- [[Don't take work advice from unsuccessful people]]
- [[Engineer serendipity]]
- [[Eventual success]]
- [[Failure is important]]
- [[Failure teaches us more than success]]
- [[Favorable principle]]
- [[Feedback loops of encouragement and discouragement]]
- [[Glücksshuld]]
- [[Gradually, then suddenly]]
- [[Gravity problems]]
- [[How to avoid perfectionism]]
- [[How to create your Business AI Master Prompt]]
- [[How to create your Personal AI Master Prompt]]
- [[How to stop being average]]
- [[If you can't picture yourself winning, you just can't win]]
- [[Instant gratification]]
- [[Intellectual Capital]]
- [[It's easy to see someone's success because of the survivorship bias]]
- [[It's okay if you need to stop and start over]]
- [[Lag between efforts and outcomes]]
- [[Luck surface area]]
- [[Magnum opus]]
- [[Matthew Principle]]
- [[Metronomes and momentum]]
- [[Mindset is critical to success]]
- [[Misguided education]]
- [[Negative feelings act like brakes on our momentum]]
- [[Nobody is a 'real' perfectionist]]
- [[Observed talent is the result of hard work]]
- [[On The Importance Of Writing (Article)]]
- [[Optimism, pessimism and freedom (Article)]]
- [[Overcoming Perfectionism - How to Break Free from the Enemy of Progress (Article)]]
- [[Persistence is key]]
- [[Progress is rarely linear]]
- [[Running costs influence]]
- [[Savor small moments on the journey]]
- [[Signs that perfectionism is holding you back]]
- [[Signs that you are falling into the trap of perfectionism]]
- [[SMART Goals]]
- [[Sources of advantages]]
- [[Start small]]
- [[Success calls success, but failure can damage your confidence and bring negativity]]
- [[Success comes from]]
- [[Success has many fathers. Failure has none]]
- [[Success invites success]]
- [[Sunk Cost Fallacy]]
- [[Take Radical Ownership of Your Life and Career]]
- [[The 10 percent target]]
- [[The crucial role of setting and pursuing goals]]
- [[The Crucial Role of Setting and Pursuing Goals (Article)]]
- [[The key to making progress is taking action]]
- [[The Matthew Principle]]
- [[The Power of Setting Achievable Goals - How Lowering the Bar Leads to Success (Article)]]
- [[The squeaky wheel is the one that gets the grease]]
- [[Tips to live a successful life]]
- [[Top 10 reasons why goals are so important]]
- [[Transform your curiosity into an unfair advantage]]
- [[Unfair advantage]]
- [[What does success look like to you in 6 months from now]]
- [[Writing success metrics]]
- [[Ya ain't gonna be Elon Musk (YAGBEM)]]
- [[Your habits and routines make you (Article)]]
- [[Your value does not only depend on your performances]]
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- [[90 percent of success is not getting distracted]]
- [[A fantastic goal without a fantastic plan is a fantastic fantasy]]
- [[A goal is just a wish until you build a system to achieve it]]
- [[A great artist with a bad system can be beaten by a mediocre artist with a good one]]
- [[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 man is great not because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him]]
- [[Action beats intention every time]]
- [[Allow for quiet victories. Not loud celebrations]]
- [[Always know what you want. Do the work. Dreams are not free]]
- [[An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention]]
- [[An inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots]]
- [[An overnight success is ten years in the making]]
- [[An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence]]
- [[At time we crack, only to let the light in]]
- [[Be free like the wind, nothing stops you]]
- [[Be good to people. You will be remembered more for your kindness than any level of success you could possibly attain]]
- [[Be patient, good things come to those who wait]]
- [[Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self]]
- [[Big persistence compensates for bad timing. Because if you stay at it long enough, it’ll eventually be the right time. And when it is, while everyone is trying to time it. You’ll have been ready for years]]
- [[Boldness is a stronger indicator of success than intelligence]]
- [[By avoiding risk, we avoid failure. By avoiding failure, we avoid learning and success]]
- [[Chase what you want but take what you can get]]
- [[Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success]]
- [[Choose the option that scares you. It's the path to growth]]
- [[Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world]]
- [[Complexity is fractal. You only notice it when you get close enough to it]]
- [[Consistency finishes what excitement starts]]
- [[Consistency wins the race]]
- [[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]]
- [[Decisions don't create change. Actions do]]
- [[Deliver success, not software]]
- [[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment]]
- [[Do one thing and nail it]]
- [[Do or do not. There is no try]]
- [[Do things when you don't feel like doing them]]
- [[Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't]]
- [[Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later]]
- [[Don't dream about success, work hard for it]]
- [[Don’t fear losing. Winning never comes easy, is rarely predictable, and never follows a straight line. Setbacks always happen. Setbacks should be converted into passionate feel and belief]]
- [[Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life. Keep going. Your story doesn't end there]]
- [[Don't let yourself get distracted. Keep following your path]]
- [[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 the best, be the only]]
- [[Don't worry about failure. All you need is to be right once]]
- [[Dreams are lovely but they are dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change]]
- [[Dreams mean work]]
- [[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit]]
- [[Eighty percent of success is showing up]]
- [[Either your intuitions are good or not. Follow them. If they're good, you'll eventually be successful. If they're not, it doesn't matter what you do. Trust your intuition]]
- [[Entrepreneurship is to carry an invisible burden, to sacrifice one's time, one's health, and sometimes even one's happiness, while the world only sees the result, never the exhaustion]]
- [[Eventual success can only come from relentlessly showing up]]
- [[Every new project you commit to reduces the chances that any of the others will finish successfully]]
- [[Every strike brings me closer to the next home run]]
- [[Everyone who strives to reach his potential must pay a price, in time, effort, resources, and opportunities missed. Many people fail to pay the price that their potential demands]]
- [[Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference]]
- [[Everyone's looking for an angle. The best one is 0 degrees. Just be straightforward]]
- [[Expect it to take 100 small failures to achieve 1 big goal]]
- [[Explorers are risk-takers. That is how they end up succeeding. To succeed, become an explorer. Not an imitator]]
- [[Failing to plan is planning to fail]]
- [[Failure doesn't stop when you succeed. Failure is part of the game]]
- [[Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing]]
- [[Figure out what you can do better than anyone else. Do it until everyone sees how good you are. Stand out from the crowd]]
- [[Focus on now, make it better and the future will get brighter as a result]]
- [[Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune]]
- [[From my experience, the most common trait you will consistently observe in accomplished people is an obsession with completion. Once a project falls into their horizon, they crave almost compulsively, to finish it]]
- [[From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success]]
- [[Frustration is a sign that you're about to break through, but most people let the flood of emotions consume them and quit instead]]
- [[Gamers know that you have to play level 1 over and over again in order to reach level 2]]
- [[Generalists are the winners in an age where specific knowledge is free]]
- [[Generalists will be the winners of the current AI race. All things being equal, those with a wider perspective have the edge]]
- [[Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them]]
- [[Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life]]
- [[How to know you are doing something meaningful]]
- [[Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few]]
- [[I will prepare and some day my chance will come]]
- [[I'm convinced that about half of what separates the most successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance]]
- [[I'm going to succeed, because I'm crazy enough to think I can]]
- [[Ideas are cheap. The difference between a great work and an idea is the effort to make it real]]
- [[If I must fall, may it be from a high place]]
- [[If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try]]
- [[If the why is powerful, the how is easy]]
- [[If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won’t succeed. We can’t pursue the benefits of networks. The benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships]]
- [[If you accept conventional wisdom from people living conventional lives, can you expect to be anything but conventional]]
- [[If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror]]
- [[If you aren’t willing to suck, you’re never going to get good]]
- [[If you believe success is inevitable, it will be]]
- [[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 have leverage, you’re never going to make real wealth]]
- [[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 look closely, most overnight successes took a long time]]
- [[If you see your decisions not as attempts at getting something, but rather as experiments on the path to figuring out the optimal course of action, there's no success or failure anymore, just varying rates of learning efficiency]]
- [[If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net]]
- [[If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself]]
- [[If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself]]
- [[If you’re asking for advice, you’re not going to make it. Making it requires making it, not asking someone else how to make it]]
- [[If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight]]
- [[Innovation is rebellion until it succeeds]]
- [[Instead of waiting (sometimes for years) for bigger wins to happen, you can use small wins to propel you]]
- [[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]]
- [[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 doesn’t take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money]]
- [[It has always been, and will always be about getting it wrong until you get it right]]
- [[It is hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried to succeed]]
- [[It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan]]
- [[It takes entrepreneurs an average of 3.8 failed ventures before they manage to start a successful business]]
- [[It’s a lot easier to say all successful people got lucky than it is to admit you have no ability to delay gratification, handle rejection, or think for yourself]]
- [[It's always useful to think about the end goal, but it's also useful to think about the reachable small wins]]
- [[It's normal to be scared about exchanging a dream for everything you have already obtained and achieved so far]]
- [[It’s not about finding the perfect tools and hacks. It's about strategy and execution]]
- [[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 to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit]]
- [[It’s your job to have the highest quality standards of anybody you work with. Every day, you’ll face pressure to lower them. Don’t do it. If you can set a high standard and simply maintain it, you’ll do very well for yourself]]
- [[Knowledge learned the hard way combined with the avoidance of error, whenever and wherever possible, is the soundest basis for success in any endeavour]]
- [[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity]]
- [[Let opportunities do their thing give yourself a chance]]
- [[Limitations are self-imposed]]
- [[Luck is a word people who are lazy use to describe people who are hustling]]
- [[Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity]]
- [[Make success the only option and your mind will give you no choice but to achieve it]]
- [[Making money online is very easy, you just need a strong head and consistent action]]
- [[Mindset is everything. Once you believe you can achieve something, you most likely will]]
- [[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver]]
- [[Most overnight successes have been a decade in the making]]
- [[Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75]]
- [[My best successes came on the heels of failures]]
- [[Never complain, never explain. Let your actions speak for themselves]]
- [[No lifetime, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you cannot learn to love yourself and be yourself]]
- [[No map to the top. No guidebook. No ten steps. No secrets. Just not quitting]]
- [[Nobody said being great would be easy]]
- [[Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing]]
- [[On a long enough timeframe, the thinker will always outperform the hustler]]
- [[One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide]]
- [[Our fear of failure often prevents us from attempting things. It feels safe not to try, but not trying is the only way you're guaranteed to fail. Don't fail in advance by not even making an attempt]]
- [[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success]]
- [[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time]]
- [[People don't buy what you do. They buy why you do it]]
- [[People don’t reach their potential on accident. The secret to success can be found in people’s daily agendas]]
- [[People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful]]
- [[Principles are recipes for success]]
- [[Responsibility is the price of greatness]]
- [[Results is the name of the game]]
- [[Réussir, ce n'est pas toujours ce qu'on croit]]
- [[Seek inspiration from others who have been successful]]
- [[Set your goals high, and do stop from time to time to enjoy the journey and appreciate your progress. But never lose sight of the end goal]]
- [[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there]]
- [[Show me an experimenter, and over the long run, I'll show you a future winner]]
- [[Stop trying to find the way. Make your own]]
- [[Success comes to those who don't stop]]
- [[Success is a doing]]
- [[Success is demanding but it is worth it. You have to want to succeed]]
- [[Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm]]
- [[Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable]]
- [[Success is the lifelong experiment of discovering what makes you feel most alive]]
- [[Success is the result of a solid system]]
- [[Success, without fulfilment, is the ultimate failure]]
- [[Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better]]
- [[Successful people do what unsuccessful people won't]]
- [[Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily]]
- [[Take your own decisions, don't let others or inaction decide for you]]
- [[Talent is the intensity of your desire (to achieve something)]]
- [[The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory]]
- [[The best jobs to have are those you can't apply for]]
- [[The best way out is always through]]
- [[The bigger the outcome, the more likely small things compounded to make it happen over time]]
- [[The closer we get to realizing our dreams, the more our personal legend becomes our reason to live]]
- [[The conditions for success don't create winners. Winners create the conditions for success. They take what they're given and make the most out of it]]
- [[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn]]
- [[The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything]]
- [[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time]]
- [[The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like really hard work]]
- [[The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything]]
- [[The inexperienced act like you can buy success without failure. They’re a package deal]]
- [[The key to success is to ask for what you want]]
- [[The longer the time horizon, and the more ambitious your goals should be]]
- [[The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding]]
- [[The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing]]
- [[The moment you stop viewing success as a destination is the moment you’ll start enjoying the present]]
- [[The more I think about it, the more I feel like success will always remain out of reach]]
- [[The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed]]
- [[The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect]]
- [[The only real shortcut is not taking shortcuts]]
- [[The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life]]
- [[The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something]]
- [[The power of having dreams is that they enable us to leave behind a legacy and impact others with our vision]]
- [[The quest always starts with beginner's luck and always ends with the challenge of the conqueror]]
- [[The quickest fix is the longest path]]
- [[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure, instead of having pain and pleasure use you]]
- [[The secret to effective results is turning acquired knowledge into default behavior. Habits, routines, and rules all turn knowledge into sustained action]]
- [[The secret to incremental success is looking for incremental lessons]]
- [[The secret to success is being comfortable with looking completely clueless as a beginner]]
- [[The single biggest wealth hack is living in the future]]
- [[The success formula. Solve your own problems and freely share the solutions]]
- [[The universe always conspires in favor of those who dream]]
- [[The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first]]
- [[The worst prison in the world is having the talent and intelligence to achieve something great, but lacking the courage to go out and do it]]
- [[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 no such thing as a great talent without great willpower]]
- [[There will always be people above and below on the success ladder. At the top they're literally in space. And there's a long tail of people at rock bottom]]
- [[To find good ideas, ship many ideas]]
- [[To live alone is the fate of all great souls]]
- [[Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value]]
- [[Unclear goals, not a busy schedule, are what really hold you back]]
- [[Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it]]
- [[Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away]]
- [[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 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 feels like failure today is often part of success tomorrow]]
- [[What looks like success is often just patience]]
- [[Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive]]
- [[When there's no way back, all you can do is focus on the best way to move forward]]
- [[When you are in your own lane there is no traffic]]
- [[When you really want something, the universe conspires in your favor]]
- [[When you're young, you dream fearlessly, ambitiously. But as you age, doubts creep in and you stop believing that you can actually achieve your dreams]]
- [[Winners who come from behind, are winners nonetheless]]
- [[Wishes don't create change. Decisions do]]
- [[Work in silence. Success will be your noise]]
- [[Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you]]
- [[Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere]]
- [[You always have the possibility to achieve your dreams. If you believe it, if you have enough willpower, are on the right mindset, then the sky is the limit]]
- [[You aren't rewarded for hard work]]
- [[You aren't where you want to be because you aren't as skilled as you think you are]]
- [[You can choose to look at the world as a victim or as a hero. It's a choice]]
- [[You can have anything you want, but not everything]]
- [[You can’t compete with someone who is having fun]]
- [[You don't get to decide what wins. Your only decision is will you do what it takes to win]]
- [[You don't get what you deserve. You get what you decide you deserve. But you gotta decide]]
- [[You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time]]
- [[You don't have to be exceptional. You just have to be you]]
- [[You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems]]
- [[You fall to the level of your systems and habits]]
- [[You get what you focus on]]
- [[You have to keep at it with a lot of curiosity for a long, long time]]
- [[You miss a hundred percent of the shots that you don't take]]
- [[You need to think small to win big]]
- [[You show what your values really are by the opportunities you turn down]]
- [[You were born to win. But to be a winner, ytou must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win]]
- [[You're never wrong to do the right thing]]
- [[You're only as good as how you perform on your worst day. When everything is going well, it's easy to be successful. But when things start crashing all around you, that's when it matters most to keep your head and think long-term]]
- [[Your habits will determine your future]]
- [[Your mental health has an enormous impact on if you will be successful or not. Don't neglect it]]
- [[Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes]]
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