How can you use different belief systems, different frameworks, different principles, different tech tools to optimize your productivity and your effectiveness?

While the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people’s heads to unearth riches. Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage.

“What do you want?” is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

Find the cause or vehicle that interests you most and make no apologies.

Don’t use skepticism as a thinly veiled excuse for inaction or remaining in your comfort zone.

Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that’s extraordinary. What do they need?

Focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice.

For a long time, I’ve known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.

In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvest yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange. Embrace your weird self.

There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

We end up spending “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”

I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each “moment of impact”, one step at the time.

To become “successful,” you have to say “yes” to a lot of experiments. To learn what you’re best at, or what you’re most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

When you try to something big it’s hard to fail completely.

The most fulfilled and effective people I know – world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more – look at their life’s journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

What are you good at? What could you be the best at? What makes you happy? What excites you? What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself? What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it? What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?

Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Even a small amount of non-reactive planning and reflection will completely separate you from everyone else, because you are avoiding the impulse and social pressure to multitask.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

Instead of thinking of the repercussions of an action, you should also be asking yourself, ‘what are the costs of inaction?’

The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!