Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.

When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you’ll get through. Just stick at it.

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one.

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus.

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.

The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games and addictive drugs.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.

If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful.

The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

Whatever the geeks are doing in their garage on weekends is what the entire earth will be doing 20 years later as a mainstream thing.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. Inspiration is perishable – act on it immediately. Be impatient with actions but patient with results.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

Now the main source of capital is how many “robots”, programmers, and machines you have working for you. Those are the ultimate force multipliers.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.

I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

You have one life. You’re dead for tens of billions of years, and you’re going to be dead for tens of billions of years.

You have to put in the time, but more important is the judgment. The direction you’re heading in matters more than how fast you drive.

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.

The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player.

In a billion dollar company, the employees aren’t working any harder than people in a million dollar company. They’re just doing the right things.

Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.

Guard your time. It’s all you have.

That’s the fundamental delusion – that there is something out there that will make you happy forever.

You should be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.