Benjamin P. Hardy Quotes

Personality is not stable but changes regardless of whether you’re purposeful about that change or not.

You thrive on it. You intentionally create situations to jack-up the pressure even higher, challenging you to prove what you’re capable of. — Tim Grover

Who you are and what you can do in one situation is starkly different from who you are and what you can do in a different situation. Yet it is the Western way to isolate and decontextualize, whether it be variables in a science lab or ourselves. We’re really good at putting things in boxes and missing the interplay between everything.

People use the past as the excuse to remain stuck in habits and attitudes that keep them from growing.

Earning Money Is Moral “For better or worse, humans are holistic. Even the human body does best when its spiritual and physical sides are synchronized… People’s bodies perform best when their brains are on board with the program… Helping your mind to believe what you do is good, noble, and worthwhile in itself helps to fuel your energies and propel your efforts.” — Rabbi Daniel Lapin

What currently prevents your dreams from becoming reality is buried trauma keeping you trapped in your past, shutting down your confidence and imagination. Sure, trauma occurs as major, life-altering events. But more often, “trauma” is planted in minor incidents and conversations that limit your view of who you are and what you can do, creating a fixed mindset.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith explained in his book Triggers, “If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.

If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.

The 80 Percent Rule: Done is better than perfect. Dan Sullivan explained, “Eighty percent gets results, while 100 percent is still thinking about it.

Start asking, and you’ll start receiving. It’s startling how fast you’ll get what you want once you directly ask.

Slowing time is truly a matter of quality more than quantity. The destination a person is traveling toward must be intrinsically desirable.

"When someone proactively labels themselves an "introvert" or even an "extrovert," they've officially made themself "dumber" — unless for some reason one of those labels will enable them to achieve a particular goal."

Thus, it’s not free will or determinism. It’s not choice or environments. Instead, it is choice and environment. More directly, it is the choice of environment. You are responsible for shaping and choosing the environments that will ultimately shape the person you become and the destiny you have. Environmental design is your greatest responsibility. Choosing and shaping your environment is at the center of what “free will” really means, because your choice of environment and external influences will directly reflect in the person you become.

Human beings evolved needing two key types of environments: high stress and high recovery

[For every thing you do, you can sleepwalk without awareness about your actions, or become more consciously deilberate about your actions. Contemplate whether this is a good use of your time by answering some honest questions.]

Some questions you could ask yourself are:
- What is the reason or goal for this activity?
- What benefit am I getting from this?
- Where is this activity taking me?