TRUE DEFINITION OF A PHILOSOPHER

A philosopher is more interested in the acquisition of the underlying Understanding of success rather than the explicit gain of successful outcomes such as money or status.

A philosopher would rather lose the game to win wisdom

than win the game and carry no greater wisdom into future games.

Be aware that the ‘vision’ you have inside your mind actually holds very little spiritual power to bring about external events.

It’s the feeling that the vision arouses in your heart that holds real power. The feeling in your heart will give you the power to act.

Low resolution pictures in your mind of your life’s vision will output some low intensity feelings that go on to produce only limp efforts and chronically half-baked actions.

When you are finally able to quieten the fears of your mind,

the courage of your heart will awaken from its dormancy.

Motivation is ephemeral, act quickly to establish some habits that can last.

No amount of intellectual brilliance can replace the subconscious ease derived from Practice.

A loose cannon seldom jams. When that critical moment comes and you need to fire, you’ll wish LOOSENESS was your normal mode of operation. Tightness has its place, so does looseness.

Those trying to be successful are often focusing on “doing things right”.

It doesn’t work.

Instead success is more often the outcome of “doing the right things”.

You are far better off from "doing the right things" in a mediocre manner than the wrong things with great vigour.

In life, what counts is not what happens but how you respond to it.

Those who fail like to console themselves by calling the winner “lucky”.

In order to enjoy great levels of success you will become well acquainted with failure.

Failure will become a permanent state of being if you allow it to solidify over time by being afraid to follow your heart. Success comes to those who believed in their dreams and were willing to try even though they understood failure would keep visiting them until the finally figured out a way to succeed.

A day spent making mistakes allows you to start tomorrow with a slightly more intelligent understanding of the problem.

A day spent doing nothing because you’re scared of making mistakes is just another wasted day.

You cannot be sincerely grateful for that which you’ve never been deprived of. Let the universe deprive you for a while.

Here’s the craziest thing about this world:

Everybody seems so sure that they know what they are doing.

Almost nobody possessing the courage to work with humility.

Big talk, tiny results.

Humility will take you directly to a mountain of results.

Imagine this marriage of opposites:

• your heart full of unshakeable self-confidence.
• your mind full of pristine humility

The Whiners are never Winners. The universe would topple in on itself before the Whiners won anything but scorn.

Anger is a beautiful thing. Without anger, not much ever changes.

There’s a certain point where you’ve had enough, the moment of anger arrives and a definite decision is finally made. Anger is an angel of change. Let your anger out, don’t bottle it up. Use it and see it presence as a gift that can transform your life. As long as you don’t take your anger way too far, that is, to the border of violence, it’s a perfect safe tool to employ in your self-development. People tell you not to get angry because they are scared of the confrontation in your anger. As long as you’re not scared of your own anger, there’s no issue with leveraging that emotion to precipitate real change in your life.

To think for yourself, first you'll need to block out the assertions of others.

Easier said than done, the assertions of others swirl around in your consciousness relentlessly.

Why do we imagine our future as heroic when our past is mostly a string of embarrassments?

The lesson of life seems to be centered upon humility and the acceptance of our imperfect self.

Dream big but at the same time be ready to be derided and humiliated by the stubbornness of this complex material world.

If you can believe in yourself enough, you’ll be able to finally look at your own shortcomings squarely front on. No more shirking, no more “coping”, no more avoidance of what you know to be true yet selectively opted to repress.

You will win the game of life when you are able to ignore all the other players around you who are madly jostling to win. Their jostling is an unrelenting distraction. Until you can calm yourself amid all the many idiots around you, it’s going to be very hard to think clearly enough to choose all the right moves.

Failure is only permanent if you keep lying to yourself.

Success is inevitable if you keep being honest with yourself.

The ONLY failure is lying to yourself.

Get real or get spanked by life.

He who fails the most will be the one most fearful of failing.

Failure is caused by the fear of failure.

Glory is won by the mind that thinks its possible.

How to be a loser?

Spend maximum time on minimum outcomes.

RECIPE FOR FAILURE

Dedicate an extraordinary amount of your time to activities that offer the most ordinary of outcomes.

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Dedicate an extraordinary amount of your time to activities that offer the most glorious of outcomes.

The world is full of people doing all the wrong kind of things… well.

Become the person who is doing all the right kind of things… poorly.

You’ll streak way ahead.

There’s no need to do all the right things WELL, you’ll attract too much attention.

You help the world best

when you become your best

Success is deserved by those who aren’t scared to fail over and over again whilst they figure out how to succeed.

What is mastery?

Mastery of anything is the loss of yourself into something until you can ultimately do it without thinking.

Mastery is simply subconscious ease.

Give up sooner, so you can move on to something better.

Humility is so powerful because it’s the only way to stop deluding yourself.