Dickie Bush Quotes

You need to be DAWN MAXXING. Up precisely 90 minutes before the sunrise. Hands down the best time of day. It’s silent. The sky is just waking up. Birds barely chirping. Creativity is flowing. Clarity is high. The potential of a new day awaits. The warm orange sun greets your retina in harmonious circadian fashion, just as nature intended. Life is good.

Take action when motivation is high.

But design your systems to work when motivation is low.

The operating system for the 21st-century internet entrepreneur:

1. Start sharing ideas
2. Attract like-minded people
3. Figure out their problems
4. Build products to solve their problems
5. Extract proof you've solved their problem
6. Document/share your process along the way

If you don't have time to write for an hour per day, you should write for 2 hours per day

See yourself as a bridge.

Wherever you are, there are people to learn from and people to teach.

Be the bridge between these groups of people.

Millions of dollars are spent on diets.

Very few dollars on information diets.

• Sugar leads to diabetes of the body.
• The internet leads to diabetes of the brain.
• Glucose monitors help manage our food diet.

We need something similar to monitor our information diet.

Picture a Venn diagram:

Left circle: things people struggle to do.

Right circle: things people don't regret doing.

Overlap: things you should do more often.

Consistency is not 100% for 30 days, it’s 90% for 365.

Tomorrow is a great day to realize no one is coming to save you.

I'm convinced the #1 skill for writers to build over the next 20 years is ghostwriting

As things trend from companies to individuals, your differentiator will be your ability to communicate and scale other people's messages online

My simple definition of wealth:

Wealth is the ability to choose:
• How you spend your time
• Where you spend your time
• Who you spend your time with

The “number” and circumstances that enables this will be different for everyone.

But you should have an idea what it is.

Consistency > Intensity

• Long-term results come from consistency, then intensity.
• To run a marathon, start by running a mile every day.
• To write a book, start by writing 500 words every day.

To win long-term, start with consistency, then build the intensity.

You are not the sum of the five people you surround yourself with.

You are the product.

Being around the right people doesn't lead to linear growth.

It leads to exponential growth.

If what you’re working on doesn’t feel like playing a video game, you’re working on the wrong thing.

My framework for learning: just in time, not just in case.

This means working on projects which require me to learn a skill to move the project forward.

Example: you could read books on copywriting, or you could build a product that needs a landing page, then learn to make one.