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The Secret of Successful People: They Use Fear as a Compass

What is fear telling you to avoid right now? Use that fear as a compass. It can guide you toward where you can learn most.

Once someone accomplishes a seemingly impossible task, a psychological seal is broken, enabling others to complete the task even faster.

For the past ten years, I’ve been experimenting with tactics to remember key takeaways from the 650 books I’ve read in that timespan.

Be the person who works in humble, quiet isolation, then emerges from hibernation having completed something of substance.

Determine the rules that will govern your behavior in specific situations. Find a way to pre-decide what you should do.

The things that make you abnormal are often the things that become your superpowers. Abnormal habits lead to success.

Busy shouldn’t be a badge of honor. These five virtues offer a better path to success and fulfillment in our increasingly busy world.

There’s something magical, wild, and powerful about the way children interact with the world around them. We should be more like them.

Are you wondering how to read more? Here are the ten specific tactics that have helped me read over 70 books each year.

If you’re entirely comfortable with what you’ve already achieved, you will stop pushing to do more. The key is to find optimistic discontent.