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

When speed matters more than substance, manipulation finds an opening.

When you negotiate with yourself, you eventually lose.

It doesn't matter if you should do something, it doesn't matter if you wish for something, it doesn't matter how you feel ... what matters is what you want.

When you want something bad enough, it's a must.

Must is a commitment. Anything else is an option.

When things are optional, you start to negotiate with yourself. That little voice in your head takes over and says, 'I don't feel like going to the gym today. I'll do extra tomorrow.' And, in that moment, you've lost.

And a funny thing happens when you must do something; The noise of the world goes from something that pulls you away from what you want to something that gets in the way of what you want.

A lot of people use the word want when they really mean wish. The person who wants something must do it. And when you must do it, nothing gets in your way.

If it really matters to you, there is no room for negotiation.

You can’t improve if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong.