As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things while having your ego in check. There is a widespread tendency to think that success in the future is just the natural next part of the …
If individuals are poorly informed, confused, or downright inconsistent – as all of us are most of the times – the notion of “what we want” isn’t always so clear. Our positive opportunities in life often matter more than the amount of cash in our bank accounts. The omnipresent fast food offer is manipulating our …
You already know all that you need to succeed. You don’t need to learn anything more. Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time is capable of creating a radical difference. More than 95 percent of everything we feel, think, do, and achieve is a result of a learned habit! Write out the half-dozen small, …
To say no when you need to say no, and yes when you need to say yes, you need to remember what you really want. People who are distracted are more likely to give in to temptations. The brain is remarkably responsive to experience. Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets …
We love someone when the importance of his or her needs and desires rises to the level of our own. When people fall in love, no justification for their attachment is necessary. When people fall out of love, the demands for an explanation are insistent. Much of what passes for intimate communication involves admonitions and …
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. You can recognize intrinsic motivations more easily in yourself than in others. It can be easy to forget that other people have minds with the same general capacities and experiences as your own. There is an universal …
We profess indifference to what we secretly long for but do not have. It’s advisable to revisit the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer us. We prefer to quote rather than speak and think for ourselves. Anger results not from an uncontrollable eruption of the passions, but from a basic …
We often look back on the things we’ve just learned and assumed we knew them or believed them all along. The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to us, and when pressed to explain them, we will make something up. We are far more likely to believe something is commonplace if we can find …
The beliefs that carried us to initial success may be holding us back in our quest to go to the next level. People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats. When we do what we choose to do, we are committed. When we do what we have to do, we are …
We usually don’t know what kind of car we want until we see it parked in our neighbourhood. We don’t know what we want to do with our lives – until we find a sibling or friend who is doing just what we think we should be doing. While moving up in life, we indulge …
The most important metric to track is your personal energy. You can maximise your personal energy by eating right, exercising regularly, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep and having something in life that makes you excited to wake up. Running a marathon under four hours might be a goal, but exercising daily is a system. …