“life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject… — Sebastian Marshall Fear 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
“Plan the morning. Get hydrated, get your health going, get planning.” — Sebastian Marshall Health 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 Money Copy Share Image
“I can’t stress how important this is, and how liberating. Your results in a new discipline will likely be the baseline results… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline 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 psychologists have a term — emotional contagion. When other people are acting a certain way around you, you tend to absorb… — Sebastian Marshall Pessimism 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 and hard work Copy Share Image
“Assume your service is bad. It can’t hurt, and it will force you to improve.” 1. Acknowledge the truth of things.… — Sebastian Marshall Service 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 Good advice 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 Enough time 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
“Your entire morning routine works this way — always drink water upon waking, always check calendar and commitments on waking, block the… — Sebastian Marshall Drink water Copy Share Image
“Sprints of massive focus are magical. There’s no United States without Washington leading those daring winter raids.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“It was previously understood across many cultures that your thoughts might just be enemy soldiers putting you under siege.” — Sebastian Marshall 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
“The soldiers were not paid on time, and often looted and stole – sometimes from enemies, and sometimes friends – to survive.… — Sebastian Marshall Time Copy Share Image
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” — Sebastian Marshall Strategy 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 Education 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 Last time Copy Share Image
“Endurance and constant trying — despite constant setbacks and failures — is a hallmarked requirement of most large and worthy things.” — Sebastian Marshall Failure 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 Copy Share Image
“SECOND NECESSITY FOR MENTAL TOUGHNESS: TRAINING It’s long been known that athletes and soldiers need to prepare by training the physical… — Sebastian Marshall Fitness Copy Share Image
“Despite his inauspicious roots and lack of a recognizeable last name, this guy not only excelled at the art of war, but… — Sebastian Marshall Art 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 Wonderful feeling Copy Share Image