Over the centuries, people have placed a wall around mastery. They have called it genius and have thought of it as inaccessible…But that wall is imaginary. This is the real secret: the brain that we possess…was designed to lead us to mastery.

The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

Even the worst shit that happens to you can be converted into gold if you are clever enough.

It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

If you are afraid to learn from your mistakes, you will more than likely keep repeating them.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present.

Once the ego inflates it will only come back to earth through some jarring failure.