Sahil Bloom Quotes

Focused, concentrated attention is significantly more powerful than scattered, unconcentrated attention.

Your entire life will change when you realize your standards decide your future. Every time you let something slide, you train yourself to accept less. That’s how goals erode. That's how principles slip. Set your standards. Then hold the line. Especially when it’s hard.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

If you want to take control of your time, you need to learn the Art of No. Two shortcuts to use: For personal commitments, use the Right Now test:

I have a clear definition of what it means to have enough financially. I have income that is steadily growing alongside my skills and expertise. I manage my monthly expenses so that they are reliably below my income. I have a clear process for investing excess monthly income for long-term compounding. I use my financial wealth as a tool to build other types of wealth.

In a 2018 paper published by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton, researchers asked a group of millionaires (1) how happy they were on a scale of 1 to 10 and (2) how much more money they would need to get to a 10 on the happiness scale. Commenting on the results, Norton said, "All the way up the income-wealth spectrum basically everyone says [they'd need] two to three times as much."[2]

20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids.

"Always remember," she said, "everyone we love, they are on loan to us for a short period of time. They are gone in the blink of an eye."

How was that sense engaged during (or before) that session? Write down the different ways these senses were engaged in prior periods of flow to give you an idea of the range of options at your disposal. Select the option for each sense that is most actionable and repeatable. If you were in a flow state while sitting at a café overlooking the Mediterranean in Positano, Italy, and sipping a twenty-euro espresso, that's probably not repeatable (if it is, please trade lives with me!).