“Plan the morning. Get hydrated, get your health going, get planning.” — Sebastian Marshall Health Copy Share Image
“You can eat before you go out to a restaurant so you’re not hungry.” — Sebastian Marshall Food Copy Share Image
“Issue #3: Non-Introspective Rumination and Focus on Losses” — Sebastian Marshall Introspective Copy Share Image
“The elite performers don’t focus on the overwhelming whole – they focus on getting through the next step.” — Sebastian Marshall Elite Copy Share Image
“Sprints of massive focus are magical. There’s no United States without Washington leading those daring winter raids.” — Sebastian Marshall Washington Copy Share Image
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” — Sebastian Marshall Avoidance Copy Share Image
“Third-order consequences: Toyota winds up with the highest quality rates, lowest defect rates, and most efficient factories in the world.” — Sebastian Marshall Toyota Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a student and practitioner of The Way, that elusive and grand thing, that encompasses everything. It’s” — Sebastian Marshall Practitioner Copy Share Image
“Planning the next day the night before, every single night, is one of them. If you do it enough times, it becomes… — Sebastian Marshall Automatic Copy Share Image
“not enough cohesion among your actions and you get middling trivial gains. ” — Sebastian Marshall Middling Copy Share Image
“It was previously understood across many cultures that your thoughts might just be enemy soldiers putting you under siege.” — Sebastian Marshall Siege Copy Share Image
“In heaven, the cooks are French, the police are British, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Germans. In… — Sebastian Marshall Hell Cooks Copy Share Image
“*Buying the Depreciation: New Ikea furniture has to be about the worst purchase ever — why? Because you can almost always buy… — Sebastian Marshall Furniture Copy Share Image
“In all spheres of life, cultivating a sense of aesthetics, and developing a sense of the romantic, leads to both a deeper… — Sebastian Marshall Beauty Copy Share Image
“The “best guess” as to what you’ll do in any given situation is easy to make – Guess you’ll do the… — Sebastian Marshall Accuracy Copy Share Image
“Vigour requires strain; most triumph requires strife; most people in wealthy and comfortable backgrounds, if they study themselves, will find that strain… — Sebastian Marshall Fitness Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is similar: I don’t drink, but the drinkers in the MMM and Early Retirement Extreme communities often carry a flask with them when they go,… — Sebastian Marshall Drink Copy Share Image
“Likewise, “Okay. Talent and hard work are critical, but not enough. I need whoever has decisionmaking authority to like me and be… — Sebastian Marshall Talent Copy Share Image
“Situations are always fluid. Continuing your default responses to internal pressures is a very dangerous thing if your situation changes or evolves.” — Sebastian Marshall Pressure Copy Share Image
“You have homeostatic pressures. Don’t naively assume they’re “real” – reason through them to the root cause. 2. You have default… — Sebastian Marshall Better way Copy Share Image
“Over time, I started to see correlations — the one that surprised me the most was that, after about three bad nights… — Sebastian Marshall Good habits Copy Share Image
“Best advice I’ve read from a nutritionist on eating better is to cover half of your plate during every meal with vegetables. … — Sebastian Marshall Eating Copy Share Image
“All told, this leads from going with naive intuition – which was the eventual downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte and Wilhelm II –… — Sebastian Marshall Intuition Copy Share Image
“It really actually doesn't take much time to run small experiments, and the payoff is greater levels of energy and more thriving… — Sebastian Marshall Energy Copy Share Image
“I now track the following questions on a little spreadsheet every morning – “Did I adhere to set wake-time?” “Did I… — Sebastian Marshall Every morning Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to regularly start lifting weights, aiming for 3 times or 4 times per week, but then I’d fall… — Sebastian Marshall Exercise Copy Share Image
“to govern oneself, to govern and manage an institution or in business, to govern a city or country – you need to… — Sebastian Marshall Business Copy Share Image
“Both hyper-pragmatic cost suppression (currently very normal in Beijing) and an intense devotion and care about experience and aesthetics (currently very normal… — Sebastian Marshall Beauty Copy Share Image
“Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalism calls ‘world opinion.’ For sound reasons, mostly of an economic nature, they… — Sebastian Marshall Freedom of the press Copy Share Image
“Almost Always Use Limited Duration Trials: There’s many things I’ve permanently quit in my life and never gone back to, but these… — Sebastian Marshall Limited time Copy Share Image
“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon – 1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt… — Sebastian Marshall Napoleon Copy Share Image
“If you’re both lucky and everything runs smoothly, it will take 27 minutes to reach your destination. On average, it will… — Sebastian Marshall 30 minutes Copy Share Image
“Guerrillas fight only when the chances of victory are weighted heavily in their favor; if the tide of battle unexpectedly flows against… — Sebastian Marshall Guerrillas Copy Share Image
“For about 81 weeks as of this writing, I’ve tracked my daily habits on a “Lights Spreadsheet”; it’s got entries like —… — Sebastian Marshall Daily habits Copy Share Image
“Take very seriously your personal biochemistry, nutrition, consumption, rest, work, athletics, and environment. Experiment gradually to find out what works for you,… — Sebastian Marshall Whole life Copy Share Image
“Endurance and constant trying — despite constant setbacks and failures — is a hallmarked requirement of most large and worthy things.” — Sebastian Marshall Endurance Copy Share Image
“Willpower is great to get things moving, and terrible for keeping things moving. We” — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
