People want to take your spot, until they realize what it takes to play your position. #lionlaw. Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SB*

The Warm-Up: 

“You can get rich selling, but you only get wealthy by owning.” ~Shane Parrish

The Core: 

“There are no over ambitious people. Only dreamers with no plans.” ~Kunal Shah

“We’d never throw away money. Yet…We throw away time that is worth way more than money.” ~Shane Parrish

“The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Don’t destroy your future by trying to teach people a lesson that the Universe is already going to give them.” ~Vex King

“Put yourself in a position where you can deeply focus for a few hours a day, and your life will be completely different a few years from now.” ~Orange Book

“Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.” ~Ayishat Akanbi

“Before you end your relationships over political differences, remember that the word ‘ally’ has never been synonymous with ‘friend’ for a reason.” ~Salome Sibonex

“New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is not an outcome, it’s a process. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.” ~James Clear

“There are only four kinds of people: People who do the right thing without being told. People who do the right thing when told. People who do the right thing when told more than once. People who never do the right thing, no matter what. Be the first kind of person.” ~Thibaut

“Uhh, uhh, uhh/ Time to separate the pros from the cons (and-uh)/ The platinum from the bronze/ That butter-soft shit from that leather on the Fonz (uh)/ A S1 diamond from a I class don/ A Chandon sipper from a Rosé [playa], huh?!” ~JAY-Z, ft. The Notorious B.I.G., Brooklyn’s Finest

“The truth about telling the truth is that it does not come easy for anyone. It’s not natural or organic. The natural thing to do is tell people what they want to hear. That’s what makes everybody feel good . . . at least for the moment. Telling the truth, on the other hand, is hard work and requires skill.” ~Ben Horowitz, How to Tell the Truth

“Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything. There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.” ~Ben Horowitz, The Hard Things About Hard Things

“Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same process as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.” ~Sarah Lewis, The Rise

“How did I get here? That’s what this book is all about—the values, experiences, lessons, ideas, strategies, and actions that got me where I am today. If I had to sum it up, though, I would say ambition got me here—ambition supported by the conscious choices I made every step of the way. Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there. You’ll notice I use that word a lot: choices.” ~Shellye Archambeau, Unapologetically Ambitious

Last Set: 

“The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once they’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.” ~Zachry K. Douglas

Food for Thought: 

“Let’s face it … people and events are going to continue to both hurt and disappoint you. Among the people will be those you most love, as well as those you least know. Seldom is it their intent to purposely hurt you, but rather, a variety of situations mostly beyond your control will cause them to act, speak, or think in ways which can have an adverse effect upon you, your present feelings and emotions, and the way your life upholds. It has been this way through six thousand years of recorded history, and your hurt or grief is not the first time a human has been deeply hurt by the inappropriate actions of another. 

The only way to avoid being touched by life––the good as well as the bad––is to withdraw from society, and even then you will disappoint yourself, and your imagining about what is going on out there will haunt you and hurt you. Knowing this, there is but one solution that will support you when people and events hurt you, and that is to learn to work harder on your personal growth than anything else. Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you … the one whose response to the difficulties of life really counts.” ~Jim Rohn on the best response to the disappointments of life, The Seasons of Life (saw this on James Clear’s most recent 3-2-1)