Today, let's explore some quotes shared by Daniel Walter.
When you make healthy choices, self-discipline is strengthened; on the other hand, making unhealthy choices diminishes self-discipline.
You don't need to play the game of life in hard mode, right? I touched on this when reflecting on luck; it's related to positioning.
They understand that you don’t need to be busy to be productive. The monks are taught that to avoid burn-out, you need to slow down. This is one of the reasons why they meditate.
Busyness might mean speed over velocity, which gives pseudo-productivity. The mind, with some free time, can create something valuable.
One of the most popular TED Talks came from Jia Jiang, in which he spoke about spending time living outside of his comfort zone. Jiang spent 100 days seeking out opportunities to experience rejection to help him overcome social anxiety and his fear of rejection to become a more confident person. It involved him doing things like asking a random stranger to lend him $100, knocking on someone’s door and asking to play soccer in their backyard, and asking for second helpings in a restaurant without paying. At the end of the 100 days, Jiang was a completely different person—he was confident and sociable because of how kind people were to him during this time spent outside his comfort zone.
Nice exercise, nice lessons from it as well.
People shouldn’t be afraid of failure; they should be scared of regret.
In my habit filters, I use regret to help me stop bad behavior.
The reality is that there are going to be times when you won’t get another chance to make it right. You’ve got to capture that moment because you will never get it back.
You might be doing everything right, following all the good books, and having all the required resources, but the result is still negative. It never feels right, but the only way to move forward is forward.
You will push yourself into action when you realize that perfection and procrastination are both obstacles preventing you from becoming successful and disciplined.
This reminds us that the only people we need to impress are ourselves. We don't need to explain or defend ourselves.
False hope results in constant failure, which further reinforces the behavior we desire to change.
Overconfidence breeds false hope, engenders inflated expectations of success, and eventually, the misery of defeat. More on the false-hope syndrome.
