Behavior that is incongruent with the self will not last. You may want more money, but if your identity is someone who consumes rather than creates, … - James Clear

Do things for your own satisfaction. Consider praise from others to be a bonus. If you don't work for their validation in the first place, you won't need it to feel satisfied once it's done.

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can not do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all...

What is the real goal?

The real goal is not to "beat the market." The goal is to build wealth.

The real goal is not to read more books. The goal is to understand what you read.

Don't let a proxy become the target. Don't optimize for the wrong outcome.