1+1 = 3
“Synergy—the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – R. Buckminster Fuller It seems obvious. 1+1 = 2 But acts of creation are not intuitively mathematical. Sometimes, 1+1 = 3. Sometimes it equals more than 3. When two people make a child. When a team writes a book that reaches millions. When someone […]
4 Visual Reminders On Success
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron Here are a few visual reminders about success from Visual Hustles…
The Teeter-Totter
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama Life is all about finding the balance that works for you. Work harder than you’ve ever worked before. But only on what’s meaningful to you. Spend all your money before you die. But only on what brings you joy. Travel […]
What if There Was No Shortcut?
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills The secret to success is that shortcuts don’t exist. You can work harder to go faster. You can spend more to make more. But you can’t cheat. The secret is that there is no secret. That path ahead is the path ahead — […]
Your Greatest Fear…
“When we are tired, it is often because we are bored. When no real challenge faces us, a mental and physical lethargy sets in. ‘Sometimes death only comes from a lack of energy,’ Napoleon once said, and lack of energy comes from a lack of challenges, when we have taken on less than we are […]
The Things You (Don’t) Do
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” – Steve Jobs If I asked you how you’re going to achieve your goals, you’d tell me the steps. The things you’re doing. You wouldn’t tell me the things you’re not doing. And yet what you don’t do is important. What you […]
Praise your kids for hard work
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau Sounds weird, right? Shouldn’t we praise our kids when they do something right? Well, it turns out — according to the great Andrew Huberman — it’s far more beneficial to praise children for hard work than it […]
Imposter Syndrome = Hidden Potential
“The greatest obstacle for me has been the voice in my head that I call my obnoxious roommate. I wish someone would invent a tape recorder that we could attach to our brains to record everything we tell ourselves. We would realize how important it is to stop this negative self-talk. It means pushing back […]
Here’s a…
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it — […]
Flip The Switch
“Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.” – Alvin Toffler Imagine a world where flicking on a light switch is seen as a reckless gamble? (We’ve got ourselves the beginnings of an M. Night Shyamalan film) But this was the reality a little over a century ago, when electricity was first […]