Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Remember that FEAR means to ‘Face Everything and Respond.’ To perform at a champion’s level, let the butterflies fly in formation!
Put simply, consuming too much carbohydrate is like metabolic kryptonite if you already have insulin resistance.
Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.
Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make.
It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
You’ve learned two crucial insights: (1) Brute force study habits are incredibly inefficient; and (2) It is possible to come up with techniques that work much better and require much less time. ... You are now prepared ... to begin scoring top grades without sacrificing your health, happiness, or social life.
If everything that had happened after Beijing had taught me anything, it was this—I could do anything I set my mind to. I know I can still swim faster. I mean, why not?
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
You’re someone who’s different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.