Dan Koe Quotes

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.

A system is a group of components that work together to achieve a common goal.

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.

If you're bored, create something.

Anything.

Software. Designs. Photos. Videos. Writing. A business. A body. A relationship. A mind.

How can you not be excited to wake up when you have the ability to create.

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.

You can't improve what doesn't exist.

The ideas in your head. The business you dream of building. The plans you keep putting off. All are worthless until you test them against reality.

You're afraid of failure and glorify perfection when the opposite is what determines success.