1. Habits are only habits if they’re done daily. Habits done “once a week aren’t habits at all. They’re obligations”. –Jeff Goins, quoted by Ann Handley in Everybody Writes
2. “Be quiet, work hard, stay healthy. It’s not ambition or skill that is going to set you apart, but sanity.” –Ryan Holiday
3. There’s not enough time to read every book, so “read books that the ideal version of yourself (in 20 years) would have been proud to have read. If you’re reading challenging or intimidating books, you’re probably on the right track”. –David Perell
4. The idea of owning your time. When I work out, I own that one hour. I’m making that one hour serve me, not the other way around. (Source: Robert Greene On The Most Important Advice He Gave Ryan Holiday | Daily Stoic)
5. The importance of focus. “A woodpecker,” Seth Godin writes in The Dip, “can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.” Quoted by Billy Oppenheimer in his Six at Six Newsletter
6. Only a fool is always regretting her actions.
7. According to Michal Schur in How to Be Perfect, all moral philosophy boils down to 4 questions: What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Is there something I could do that’s better? Why is it better?
8. It’s not enough to just appreciate moments of wonder and awe, we must hunt them. (From Julia Baird, Phosphorescence)
9. More on hunting wonder: “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” –Iris Murdoch, quoted by Julia Baird, Phosphorescence
10. Here’s Your Secret To Success: Go The F*ck To Sleep –Ryan Holiday