“Third-order consequences: Toyota winds up with the highest quality rates, lowest defect rates, and most efficient factories in the world.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” — Sebastian Marshall 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
“The elite performers don’t focus on the overwhelming whole – they focus on getting through the next step.” — Sebastian Marshall Elite 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
“Planning the next day the night before, every single night, is one of them. If you do it enough times, it becomes… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“not enough cohesion among your actions and you get middling trivial gains. ” — Sebastian Marshall Middling 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 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
“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 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 first is one that I’ve been surprised to see many top performers independently arrive at: wake up at least 3+ hours… — Sebastian Marshall 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 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 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 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
“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 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
“But how do we instill competence? A tough challenge. I hazard to say that there’s four steps to it – 1.… — Sebastian Marshall 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“In heaven, the cooks are French, the police are British, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Germans. In… — 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
“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
