| • | You just lost the thing that gave u purpose and direction |
| • | Wish ... decide = take action |
| • | What skills & knowledge do I need 4 next big idea |
| • | What price would mk this worth what for me |
| • | We enjoy things we're good at and not enjoy things we suck at |
| • | Use imagination for utility |
| • | Try daydreaming of a wonderful future |
| • | Truth System - Consistency on 2 of 6 |
| • | Track your Energy |
| • | Top 12 take aways |
| • | Timing is often the biggest component of success |
| • | Thinking about success |
| • | The mind is programmable |
| • | Talent + luck + hard work |
| • | Taking risks - embarrassment; divorce; bankruptcy |
| • | Take care of yourself 1st |
| • | Table of Contents |
| • | Systems: increases odds of happiness |
| • | Systems People - succeed @ time they apply system, > Energy |
| • | Systems beat passion |
| • | System - No deadline |
| • | System - Look for better options |
| • | System - do @ day ; Goal do 1 day |
| • | Successful ppl give > than they consume |
| • | Successful ppl dont wish 4 success they decide to pursue it (p. 46) |
| • | Success takes effort. If it was easy everyone would have it |
| • | Success spillover effect - b successful in anything helps with success in other things |
| • | Success Patterns vs. Failure Patterns
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| • | Success causes passion more than passion causes success |
| • | Success = desire + luck + hard work + determination + brains + risk taking |
| • | Sports superstition (lucky socks) -> bolsters confidence -> influences success |
| • | spend time on fitness; diet; career; quality w/family |
| • | Smiling makes you happier |
| • | Smile - Happier - Smile |
| • | Smart friend |
| • | Simplify your communications |
| • | Simplify vs. Optimize |
| • | Simplify |
| • | Shyness |
| • | Shopping is an E killer |
| • | Selfishness is good |
| • | seeking of knowledge ---- hesitant |
| • | Seek help |
| • | See failure as a tool not as an outcome |
| • | Scott Adams' system |
| • | Scott Adams is a professional Simplifier |
| • | Sacrifice personal life |
| • | Restaurant failed due to insufficient seating on busy nights |
| • | researching success |
| • | Putting off something like kids |
| • | Price of Success |
| • | Practical illusion |
| • | Ppl who hv recently exercised are always happy and upbeat |
| • | powerful |
| • | Point of view ---> influences ---> behavior |
| • | person of action ---- |
| • | Perceptions --> change ---> happiness (pick this one) -- change ---> sadness |
| • | People don't choose a restaurant because of it's size |
| • | Peer pressure - we're wired 2 b easily influenced by ppl in relationships w/us |
| • | Passion is marker for talent |
| • | Passion depends on success and success depends on passion |
| • | Passion = by product of knowing what you're good at |
| • | Overprice yourself |
| • | Novel ideas |
| • | Notice success patterns |
| • | New job better than last |
| • | New competition opened site of mall of restaurants near his |
| • | Maximize you Energy when planning |
| • | Make it easy for luck to find you |
| • | Luck - his pinky fails; buys tablet; saves time |
| • | Luck |
| • | Love - sex - love |
| • | Look for opportunities that you have a natural advantage |
| • | Loneliness damages body like aging |
| • | Loneliness cure = talking and being heard |
| • | Join group of ppl who read How to succeed books |
| • | Invite ppl over 2 gv a reason 2 tidy up |
| • | Increase the ratio of Happy thoughts/disturbing thoughts |
| • | If you want success figure out price and pay it |
| • | If you achieve a goal, celebrate, feel terrific |
| • | Identify your skillset |
| • | How do you feel b4 and after tidying up? |
| • | How can I simplify this? |
| • | Have a bias to simplify and simplicity |
| • | Happiness = Health + Freedom |
| • | GOP - Goal Oriented People - live in a state of nearly continuous failure |
| • | GOP - @worst - permanent failure |
| • | GOP - @best state = presuccess failure |
| • | Good Mood |
| • | Goal: run marathon < 4 hrs. System: Exercise @ day |
| • | Goal: Lose 20 lbs. System: Eating right |
| • | Goal: future success or not; System: Do regularly |
| • | Focus > important than plan |
| • | Fitness |
| • | Filter of success - seeker of knowledge vs. sit & wait |
| • | Feel gloomy - smile at stranger |
| • | Feel energetic - Play sport - Feel energetic |
| • | Fake it until you make it |
| • | Failure - invite it, survive it, appreciate it, bring value with it |
| • | Fail your way to success |
| • | Doing something boring but lucrative |
| • | desire to b > effective |
| • | confident |
| • | Comic = Absurd but true core = situation - unnecessary noise |
| • | Choose college based on m/f ratio |
| • | Choose a system that increases you OOL (Odds of Luck) |
| • | Cheerful ppl boost your E(nergy) |
| • | Change exercise, food, sleep to raise Energy |
| • | Ch. 13
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| • | Ch. 12
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| • | Ch. 11 Energy Metric |
| • | CEO on plane - When he gets a job he immediately looks for a new one as best jobs not avail when u r looking |
| • | Capitalism simplified = profits |
| • | Capitalism Paradox - adding a bunch of bad ideas together creates something > good than bad |
| • | Calm and focused E |
| • | Blogging gives him E |
| • | Be in biz for $ not passion |
| • | Backlog |
| • | Away from family |
| • | Ask a smart friend how he tackled or would tackle problem |
| • | Aquiring > skills = success |
| • | Allow him to learn something useful for next hop |
| • | Affirmations: I [your name] will be [what you want to be] 15x/day |
| • | Action - Emotion - Result
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| • | Acting confident makes you confident |
| • | act successful |
| • | Act confident - Confidence - Confident |
| • | A restaurant of his failed b/c windy outdoor seating and traffic noise and economy tanked |
| • | 3. Unlimited quantities |
| • | 2. Easy to reproduce |
| • | 2 way causation |
| • | 1. Create something of value widely desired |
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| • | -> Write out my failures |
| • | -> How to get smart friends |
| • | * stress |
| • | * sleep |
| • | * exercise |
| • | * excitement |
| • | * diet |
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