“My training drilled into me the fact that a professional doesn’t quit until every task is complete." Trying” — Sebastian Marshall Career Copy Share Image
“It’s a really wonderful feeling knowing you’ve completed all the work you have to do in a day, before most people even… — Sebastian Marshall Completed work Copy Share Image
“Operationalize success: make it consistent and boring, so you're just succeeding without getting at it.” — Sebastian Marshall Succeeding Copy Share Image
“Adherence is key. Keep it in mind when designing experiments; design experiments you can adhere to. 3.” — Sebastian Marshall Adherence Copy Share Image
“Knowing what's important comes from experiential feel, not theory. That's” — Sebastian Marshall Experiential Copy Share Image
“Pick a Lens; it’s immensely helpful in turning ideas into action, and in meeting people. Follow” — Sebastian Marshall Lens Copy Share Image
“Don’t miss these small opportunities to be constantly increasing your surface area without any effort — they add up. Going” — Sebastian Marshall Increasing Copy Share Image
“Cultivate an intense and almost fanatically paranoid emphasis on getting down form, preparation, and recovery.” — Sebastian Marshall Healing Copy Share Image
“Most people think they’re just marvelously terrific, and who cares if they’re on time? They’re special and lovely. The mindset shift… — Sebastian Marshall Mindset Copy Share Image
“Again, the whole point of this Upstream Effects is that I believe our moment-by-moment agency and control over our lives is a… — Sebastian Marshall Power Copy Share Image
“Sun Tzu said the same thing many centuries ago: "The more possibilities you present to the enemy, the more diffuse he is… — Sebastian Marshall Difficult Concentrate Copy Share Image
“The best CEOs I know all look for disruptions, interruptions, little risks, and existential risks and spend time mitigating them periodically. It’s… — Sebastian Marshall Better life Copy Share Image
“Your decisions yesterday, and last week, and last year, and the year before — this effects what’s in your bank account, how… — Sebastian Marshall Bank account Copy Share Image
“That’s where operational skill comes in. It’s about those seemingly basic but utterly critical skills: scheduling, planning things out, communicating, checking and… — Sebastian Marshall Skill Copy Share Image
“Policy: pay money for dead cobras. First-order consequence: cobras hunted and killed, less cobras. Second-order consequence: cobra breeding starts taking place.” — Sebastian Marshall Money Copy Share Image
“But what shall we think of a governor's playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy! It… — Sebastian Marshall Governor Copy Share Image
“Seemingly random events and movements and trends gather power and momentum, unseen for long periods of time, and then bursting to the… — Sebastian Marshall Historians Copy Share Image
“Things like laying out your clothes and pre-deciding what you want to wear (and doing laundry if you’re lacking clean clothes), ensuring… — Sebastian Marshall Clean clothes Copy Share Image
“life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject… — Sebastian Marshall Alternatives Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down," said Musashi, crossing his legs and dropping to the grass. He felt a twinge of exasperation. Why did Matahachi… — Sebastian Marshall Said Musashi Copy Share Image
“you can’t fight your life as a series of moment-by-moment struggles. If you do, sometimes you’ll clean your gear and put it… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
“Here is what the model of 4+1 Currencies became — Capacity: Your generalized ability to get results and make things happen.… — Sebastian Marshall Capacity Copy Share Image
“*Various problem-solving instead of excuse-making mindsets: Pre-cooking a week of chicken on Sunday is trivially easy to do. Put them in Tupperware… — Sebastian Marshall Food Copy Share Image
“If you were a military official doing weapons procurement, it’s not-at-all obvious what you should prioritize for different military units. Do you… — Sebastian Marshall Rifles Copy Share Image
“Living systems are open systems; closed systems are non-living systems. Point: If we don’t communicate with outside world—to gain information for knowledge… — Sebastian Marshall Knowledge and understanding Copy Share Image
“Every domain has different components needed for mastery. It’s not hard to figure out what they are. Study everything rigorously and… — Sebastian Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“The foreman carpenter allots his men work according to their ability. Floor layers, makers of sliding doors, thresholds and lintels, ceilings and… — Sebastian Marshall Finished work Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the decisive factor in planning guerrilla operations. Where is the enemy? In what strength? What does he propose to do?… — Sebastian Marshall Intelligence Copy Share Image
“As a corollary, guerrillas deny all information of themselves to their enemy, who is enveloped in an impenetrable fog. Total inability to… — Sebastian Marshall Darkness Copy Share Image
“At first, I found the whole thing vaguely offensive. Marvin Katko came to burgle, to commit a crime, he didn’t care at… — Sebastian Marshall American society Copy Share Image
“You’re allowed to vegetate in front of the TV, but first you need to put your running shoes on and walk outside… — Sebastian Marshall Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Higher-Order Thinking is one of the defining abilities of people that are able to make really great things happen. It applies to everything… — Sebastian Marshall Habits 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 Career Copy Share Image
“THE STUDY OF ONESELF AND OTHERS The economists have a term called “revealed preferences” – it means that the only way… — Sebastian Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“This means not embracing the first answer that comes to you, or any “default way of being” that you’ve been doing, even… — Sebastian Marshall Embracing Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I try, I produce better work when I’m healthier, planned, and my environment is set up correctly. Yes,… — Sebastian Marshall Bad day Copy Share Image
“Biases the other person brings to the table: Study which ones might apply to you. It’s hard to get people to be honest… — Sebastian Marshall Biases Copy Share Image
“When things are going poorly or going excellently, one’s judgment tends to get compromised and it becomes harder to think clearly. You… — Sebastian Marshall Think Copy Share Image
“Mission Orientation is a way of thinking – instead of thinking merely about actions to take, you constantly think about what your intent is,… — Sebastian Marshall Goals Copy Share Image
“I’ll say it again – I think most people are not great at higher-order thinking, even if it “sounds obvious” at a… — Sebastian Marshall Thinking Copy Share Image
