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- Author: Robert Greene
Highlights
Think back on the moments when you felt deeply and personally connected to an activity. Think about the pleasure it brought you. In such activities are signs of your true purpose. — location: 407
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death. —Leonardo da Vinci — location: 398
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. —Lao Tzu — location: 381
When in doubt, focus on the things you know you do well. Expand outward from the center. — location: 376
In a world full of people who seem largely interchangeable, you cannot be replaced. You are one of a kind. Your combination of skills and experience is not replicable. — location: 417
Work at what connects to you emotionally and ideas will come to you. — location: 432
You must have patience and faith that what you are doing will yield something important. — location: 429
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self—our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. — location: 426
You pay a greater price for being so nice — location: 439
begin by respecting your own opinions more and those of others less, particularly when it comes to your areas of expertise, to the field you have immersed yourself in. — location: 439
To serve this higher purpose, you must cultivate what is unique about you. — location: 452
Embrace what makes you different. — location: 456
Moments of depression are a call to listen again to your inner authority. — location: 457
Reflect on those moments in life when you were active (followed your own path) and those moments when you were passive (followed what others wanted). Compare the emotions you experienced. — location: 458
You must see your attempt at attaining mastery as something extremely necessary and positive. — location: 475
It is simple: depending on others is misery; depending on yourself is power. — location: 486
of failure. You must choose to move in the opposite direction. You want to embrace negative experiences, limitations, and even pain as the perfect means of building up your skill levels and sharpening your sense of purpose. — location: 496
You want to embrace negative experiences, limitations, and even pain as the perfect means of building up your skill levels and sharpening your sense of purpose. — location: 497
Always break tasks into smaller bites. Each day or week you must have microgoals. — location: 508
At the same time, you want to continually remind yourself of the larger goal, to avoid losing track of it or getting too mired in details. — location: 509
Keep in mind that your calling could be combining several fields that fascinate you. Keep the process open ended; your experience will instruct you as to the way. — location: 524
What would you work on if no one was looking? If money were no object? — location: 540
to make others understand her in a deep — location: 343