“Take the Toyota assembly line example: it’s not at all obvious that stopping the entire production line for a small defect, incurring a half… — Sebastian Marshall Assembly line Copy Share Image
“Do you need to do all of this? No, of course no. But as you gradually implement it, you can either bank… — Sebastian Marshall Bank Invest Copy Share Image
“A successful publicist advises that you secretly give everyone in your phonebook an A, B, C, D, or F. That's your A-list… — Sebastian Marshall Success Copy Share Image
“To modernize it a bit, lavish and excessive benefits during boom times won’t be remembered enough if you ask for pay cuts… — Sebastian Marshall Bad time Copy Share Image
“The first is one that I’ve been surprised to see many top performers independently arrive at: wake up at least 3+ hours… — Sebastian Marshall Appointment Copy Share Image
“start with a baseline of how often a habit or practice atrophies or breaks down, and then you start stacking up advantages… — Sebastian Marshall Adherence Copy Share Image
“One of the most destructive things, on a micro-level, is sitting paralyzed by too many options and not knowing what to do.… — Sebastian Marshall Important thing 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
“The enemy’s rear is the guerrillas’ front; they themselves have no rear. Their logistical problems are solved in a direct and elementary… — Sebastian Marshall Enemy Rear Copy Share Image
“A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is “dramatic,” a factory in which the “epic of… — Sebastian Marshall Gardening Copy Share Image
“3. You need to do empiricism – study reality diligently, independently of your morals – to remain on solid ground. 4. An empirical set of… — Sebastian Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“You can lose any particular short-term battle of will, but if you give yourself dozens, hundreds, thousands of opportunities to improve with… — Sebastian Marshall Ascent Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen so many otherwise very talented executives fail to see how a large amount of deals and revenue coming in now… — Sebastian Marshall Customer Copy Share Image
“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking. Second-order consequences… — Sebastian Marshall Consequences 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
“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
“The soldiers were not paid on time, and often looted and stole – sometimes from enemies, and sometimes friends – to survive.… — Sebastian Marshall Napoleon Copy Share Image
“A revolutionary war is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because its purpose is to destroy an existing society and… — Sebastian Marshall Revolutionary Copy Share Image
“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion,… — Sebastian Marshall Business Copy Share Image
“Accumulation is actively seeking and learning new sports, lifts, moves, ideas, and games. One literally accumulates a number of new training moves… — Sebastian Marshall Accumulation Copy Share Image
“2. Craftsmanship goes from an outlet for aesthetic expression to being dominated by functional considerations; craftsmanship wanes as a place to cultivate… — Sebastian Marshall Artist Copy Share Image
“Reality is vast, vaster than imaginable. Every domain has a potential for nearly unlimited invention and innovation. The theme you see, over… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
“If you read Tyson’s story in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, you can see how D’Amato helped Tyson train and get focused. The young… — Sebastian Marshall Mike tyson Copy Share Image
“It follows, that it must be the business of the guerrilla, and of his clandestine political organization in the cities, to destroy… — Sebastian Marshall Business Copy Share Image
“ENTRAINMENT IS STUPIDLY EASY TO DO It’s stupidly easy to start doing entrainment for yourself. You pick a single type… — Sebastian Marshall Habits Copy Share Image
“Napoleon’s intuition was a mix of homeostatic pressure – strong urges felt whenever he saw opportunity or felt threatened – followed by… — Sebastian Marshall Habits Copy Share Image
“This is unsurprising. The history of the world is the history of people investing in dying trends to follow the crowd, whereas… — Sebastian Marshall Customer Copy Share Image
“Assume your service is bad. It can’t hurt, and it will force you to improve.” – Harry Beckwith, Selling the Invisible Originally… — Sebastian Marshall Customer Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is sort of like a forwards-looking curiosity. It’s asking, “Why could go wrong here?” “What else matters here?”… — Sebastian Marshall Curiosity Copy Share Image
“On his death bed, he wrote his famous Dokkodo – final principles for the students of his school. The third principle… — Sebastian Marshall Death Copy Share Image
“From Nance-via-Stepan, I picked this behavior up too. Whenever I say I’m going to do something, I either note it in my… — Sebastian Marshall Behavior Copy Share Image
“This means troubleshooting problems when they come in, and put in long-term fixes. In other words, don’t just survive the layoff, analyze and… — Sebastian Marshall Layoff 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
“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
“Umm, yes, the stock market crashes, layoffs happen, injuries happen, illness happen. That’s part of the game. You need to build your… — Sebastian Marshall Customer Copy Share Image
“The vehicle will not start. (the problem) 1. Why? The battery is dead. (first why) 2. Why? The accelerator is not functioning.… — Sebastian Marshall Root cause Copy Share Image
“But how do we instill competence? A tough challenge. I hazard to say that there’s four steps to it – 1.… — Sebastian Marshall Competence 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 Contagion Copy Share Image
