2025 Powerful Insights
Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit. — Robert Greene
Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience. — Twitter
You don't look like your goals. You look like your habits. Effort never lies. — Twitter
Do so much work it would be unreasonable that you don’t succeed. — Alex Hormozi
The old paradigm: go to a good school, get a degree and get a good job... is dead. The new paradigm: find your purpose, start a company, create and lead is our future. Entrepreneurship is the only future career. — Peter H Diamandis
The most productive periods of your life in terms of original ideas and initiatives were probably when you were lonely, broke, with no one to believe in you, and no one to support you, that’s when you grew the most, because you had no other choice: these moments of despair are actually opportunities, you just need to recognize them and use them to your advantage. — Orange Book
“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.” — Marian Seldes
"Evil is whatever distracts.” — Franz Kafka
“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
How to win at life
- Commit to doing a hard thing
- Do the hard thing
- Feel good about doing the hard thing
- Become someone who enjoys doing hard things
— Mark Manson
Unhealthy addictions happen when you have too much free time and not enough purpose; no one who has a clear idea of where they want to be ten years from now would voluntarily reduce their chances of success. — Orange Book
Even if not everything that we have learned is explicitly used, the accumulated knowledge gives a hidden resonance to our words, and this fullness earns the confidence it inspires. It is a great secret: to give radiance to an idea through the twilight that surrounds it. It is a further secret to preserve its power of convergence in spite of that radiance.
What you have failed in now will prepare you to succeed in something else—to succeed, ultimately, in the way that everyone who is worth anything, and who truly persists, is sure to do. — The Intellectual Life
Acting with Power: ⭐⭐⭐ ****“In the theater, what it means to give a powerful performance is to accept and own the truth of what it means to be a human being: to be strong and weak, accomplished and fallible, powerful and powerless, all at once. This, actually, is the challenge that professional actors face every time they get in character. To play any part authentically, an actor must accept the character without judgment. And this is true for the rest of us as well. By accepting that each of us is all of these things, by learning to value all of these truths and show all of these sides of ourselves when appropriate, and by handling our mistakes with grace and equanimity, we become more resilient, less ruled by shame and self-loathing, and, ultimately, more powerful. Ironically, this is where authenticity comes from: not trying to be more yourself, but learning to accept more of yourself.” — Deborah Gruenfeld
2025 Best Writings: In here you’ll find book summaries, quotes, and powerful paragraphs similar to the above. Approach it with a notebook. IT’S POWERFUL.
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