Shane Parrish Quotes

You don't need more time, you need more focus.

Fewer projects. Fewer commitments. Fewer obligations. Fewer responsibilities.

Carefully choose what you commit to, then go all in.

enthusiasm is a skill you can activate, not a trait you're born with

Nothing has yet been said that’s not been said before.

Rich people have money. Wealthy people have time.

The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day.

You get what you repeat.

What happens in ordinary moments determines your future.

«A theory is part of empirical science if and only if it conflicts with possible experiences and is therefore in principle falsifiable by experience.»

Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be. — JEFF BEZOS[1

Most people go through life assuming that they’re right … and that people who don’t see things their way are wrong.

we can’t see what we aren’t looking for, and don’t notice what we don’t notice.

Failing properly has two major components. First, never take a risk that will do you in completely. (Never get taken out of the game completely.) Second, develop the personal resilience to learn from your failures and start again. With these two rules, you can only fail temporarily.

The map of reality is not reality.

Ego is a powerful enemy when it comes to better understanding reality.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.