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How to stop procrastination, deal with difficult situations, and become self-actualised
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1/ How to live
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
(book by Derek Sivers)
“The easy road leads to a hard future. The hard road leads to an easy future. Steering towards the pain is how to live.”
2/ How to deal with difficult situations
Michael Caine on "Using the Difficulty" (2002)
(clip from Michael Caine interview)
“There’s never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty. If you can use it a quarter of 1% to your advantage, you’re ahead. You didn’t let it get you down.”
3/ How to become self-actualised
The Levels of Man
(tweet by @VirtualElena)
4/ How to do the thing
Things that aren’t doing the thing
(essay by Strangest Loop)
“The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”
5/ How to stop procrastination
The biggest lies we tell ourselves all start with "tomorrow"
(video by Louis Rossmann)
“Saying we're going to do it tomorrow allows us to feel better about not doing anything productive today, and that has to stop. You need to make the time to do it now.”
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