What really makes successful entrepreneurs is not the nature of their idea, or the university they went to , but their actual character β their willingness to adapt their ideas and take advantage of possibilities they had not first imagined.
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Pay less attention to the words people say and greater attention to their tone of voice, the look in their eye, their body language.
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Avoid emotional extremes and find a way to feel optimism and doubt at the same time: a difficult sensation to describe.
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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
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Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.
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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, and have no energy and creativity in.
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All of us are born unique. This uniqueness is marked genetically in our DNA. We are a one-time phenomenon in the universe β our exact genetic makeup has never occurred before nor will it ever be repeated.
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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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