Dan Koe Quotes

The greatest trait you can acquire is to work with tremendous intensity on things that matter to you, and more importantly, be strangely unbothered when those things don't work out.

If you understood that you become what you read, watch, listen to, or the people you surround yourself with, you wouldn't be doing 90% of what you do.

Your old self must die a painful death for your new self to emerge. Most people aren't willing to face that pain head-on, so it becomes their master for the rest of their lives.

Subtle reminder that you're supposed to feel overwhelmed.

It means you're doing something new. You're taking a new path. You're learning. You're growing. You branched into the unknown, and that's admirable.

You used to want it. You used to be hungry. You used to love the challenge. But then you got soft. Life became dull. You became numb. At some point you're going to have to get so sick of it that your spark comes back.

You only need 1 hour.

1 hour of building. 1 hour of writing. 1 hour of lifting. 1 hour of studying.

1 hour of any form of bettering yourself, because it quickly compounds.

1 hour feels like nothing until you look back 365 hours later and everything's changed.

You don’t need to dream big. You need to imagine a life so depressing that the only option in your mind is to achieve big.

Most people's lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom.

Stress is great for brute-forcing mindless tasks, but it absolutely destroys your ability to think spatially. It destroys your creativity, which is the one thing that will give you a competitive advantage over everyone optimizing for productivity.

The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.

It’s crazy how you can just learn anything you want and become so good people can’t ignore you if you stop getting distracted.

I love entrepreneurship because it allows you to apply anything you learn.

At school, you’re told what to learn. At a job, you’re told what to work on, and you only learn until you are good enough to do the job (unless you self-educate out of genuine interest, but being honest, an abysmally low amount of people do that, because those who do realize that in order to learn they must grow, and you can’t grow in someone else’s box).

When you do your own thing, the only way to survive is to do something you’ve never done before, which requires you to learn what can’t be taught in school.

If you don't have something important to care about, you will naturally care about things that make you stupid, angry, and depressed.

Nothing is more important than your potential. Not your phone, not the TV, not anything that is begging to stimulate your brain's reward system right now.

The fastest way to change your life is to rip yourself out of your (physical and digital) environment. Change everything overnight. The places you go, the accounts you follow, the info you consume, etc. It's difficult but it absolutely works.