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This is a good one. If you’re not there, someone else makes the decision. If you’re there, you you are more likely than most others to be the one affecting the result.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo
Dripping water wears away a stone not with its strength, but with its constancy.
Progress depends on the unreasonable
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Leaders are Readers
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
– Harry Truman
I never was much of a reader actually, except for a few books on spirituality, personal growth etc here and there over the years.
Since I discovered audio books I found it easier though to consume more interesting thoughts and ideas from great thinkers. As I have written earlier the audio format suited me much better than the standard paper kind… Also listening to interesting pods, talks, intervjus, etc on Youtube, ted.com, podcast services or similar streaming services I find really inspiring and a great way of absorbing good ideas and interesting and useful information.
I do not aspire very much of becoming a leader in the traditional sense, though it is always fun to be a person who can inspire others in different ways. By learning from people that inspire me then in best case this inspiration can be picked up by people that happen to cross my path.
Efficiency
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
– Peter Drucker
Multi planet species
History is going to fundamentally bifurcate in one of two directions: We are either gonna be single planet species until some eventual extinction event, or we will become a multi planet species and be out there exploring the stars. And I like the second one.
– Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Motors; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-chairman of OpenAI | https://youtu.be/IxTPKIvn–A
Meditation and true success
“We shouldn’t have to rely on external circumstances to make ourselves internally satisfied. True success comes when you take the time every single day to work on yourself internally, and cultivated the things that you want to see in yourself internally, and then being able to hold on to these values and express them in any external circumstance, whether they be positive or negative.”
– Mamata Venkat | How Meditation Changed My Life | https://youtu.be/snkr-1C2e7U
Quality of life and uncertainty
“The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably deal with.”
– Anthony Robbins