highlights
8 highlights saved, filed under psychology.
- 01
To truly succeed, you have to be your own power source. Waiting for energy and motivation from the outside is a loser’s strategy.
- 02
No matter who you hire or work with or work for, it all still comes back to you and what you’re willing to do.
- 03
Oprah Winfrey once said something that was so good, which is, “Not everybody is going to like you.” And it’s okay.
- 04
What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality.
- 05
You have to risk negativity, risk banishment, risk hatred to have a life worth living.
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Positive mindset is so key because when you have it, it makes you completely free. It means you have somehow figured out a way to think about the bright side, no matter what. You don’t let yourself get stuck walking in circles, dwelling on the negative. You keep your head up and keep moving forward.
- 07
With a positive mindset, you can’t be stopped. You can’t be knocked down, at least for long. How can you be held back when every obstacle becomes an opportunity? When every trial and tribulation life throws at you becomes a gift to make you grow and become stronger?
- 08
This is one of the biggest things that trips people up: making speed bumps out to be mountains.