Success is effortless
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A large part of success is about getting your mindset right much more than trying to do things very hard. Let yourself be pulled towards who you want to be, by working on the identity first, instead of having to push yourself.
Of course To be happy, be able to hold paradoxes. This is one of those paradoxes: success is simultaneously effortless and effortful.
Output from this concept:
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- I'm always working. It looks like work to others, but it feels like play to me. And that's how I know no one can compete with me on it.
- Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
- Our trouble is that we ignore our intuition and subconscious creative systems by trying to solve all our problems by conscious thought.
- Instead, use conscious thought only for deciding direction.
- Success comes when you give up the struggle.
- Let the job do itself through you.
- Try to do one thing at a time.
Spiritual Quest - Srikumar Rao
- We fail to consistently think differently because we try to think differently.
- Our life is a quest for happiness by acquisition, and it's wrong.
- The mistake is in thinking happiness is an if-then mental model, and thus trying to adjust the inputs.
- Would you rather be pushed by great pain or pulled by grand vision?
- The more you enjoy the process, the more likely you will get the outcome you want, paradoxically.
- The benefit of setting a goal and trying is the learning and growth we have in us as we try our level best to achieve it.
- There comes a time where you have to stop thinking. You can't effort yourself into that.
- There is no striving, it simply unfolds.
- You are just an instrument of the universe.
Brendon Burchard on Finding Fulfillment in Life - GrowthDay
- A destiny mindset means you see your life as consequential.
- Everything you do has a ripple effect. It's not necessarily a grand scale, it can be just one talk with one person who then feels better.
- Working towards our goals sustains the motivation.
- You can learn to master the world by learning how to be free and loving in the chaos of your woman's emotions.
Iman Gadzhi - Transcending Your Identity
- A human being always acts, feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
- You get what you think you deserve.
- Whenever you want to stop working, close your eyes, see how you've envisioned yourself in 10 years looking at you, extending his hand and pulling yourself towards him.
This Is Actually The Best Way To Increase Your Testosterone - Captain Sinbad
- Increase your testosterone, and be more successful (at least daring) by feeling like a winner.