There is no such thing as being "too ambitious." It's really clear to anyone who had any past success in any field that you either go way beyond your initial expectations, or you fail completely, there is rarely any in between. We live in a society that rewards people who are already winning, and where "the best" takes it all, and where the "merely excellent" is effectively "invisible." Most people who ended up with "average" lives actually worked really hard; and people who aimed for an "average life" right from the beginning actually often ended up with way more sufferings than they wanted; and the people with "extraordinary" lives actually often took "crazy" or unconventional risks to get there, or they were very disciplined for very long periods of time. People who managed to "escape the competition" didn't get there with average standards and with "work-life balance" in mind; they were, ironically, actually often extremely competitive. #orangebook #Ambition #Success #RiskTaking

Overthinking is a sign of average intelligence. Keep investing in your mind until clarity becomes your default state. #orangebook #Overthinking #Intelligence #Mindset

People don’t struggle to find peace of mind, they struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle, meaningful relationships, financial responsibility, regular periods of time alone to reset their mind, and a routine that pushes them to grow as a person. #orangebook #PeaceOf #HealthyLifestyle #PersonalGrowth

The more successful you already are, the more additional success you tend to attract, because hard work only gets more and more fun when you no longer have to worry about what happens if you fail, you can spend your days learning, trying, improving who you are, not to “make it” or “prove your worth,” but just for its own enjoyment. #orangebook #Success #HardWork #PersonalGrowth

Everyone has an opinion, especially those who never achieved much, and you should distantly pay attention to what they have to say in order to avoid the same fate. #orangebook #Opinion #Advice #Success

They say “most businesses fail, most marriages fail, most investments fail” but then you look at the average person who represents “most” of those attempts, and you realize how little humility they have in business, how little intellectual and emotional connection they have in marriage, and how little long-term conviction they have in investing. #orangebook #Failure #Humility #Conviction

One of the most common mistakes that people make is to think of their energy as something to save. To feel drained is to be distracted. High-energy people are just people actively focused on meaningful goals. #orangebook #Energy #Focus #Goals

Old people who didn’t have the intelligence to work smart, who made a lot of sacrifices and suffered a lot to get where they are, love to be preachy and resentful towards the smart young people who achieved ten times more in ten times less time, as if being inefficient and struggling made them a more virtuous person. #orangebook #WorkSmart #Sacrifice #Resentful

Luck is self-respect for your own time: people waste so much time arguing about things that don't matter, building relationships with people who don't care, living in places where they feel no connection, and investing in everything but in their talents, their vision, their future #orangebook #SelfRespect #TimeManagement #PersonalGrowth

Many successful, talented, and humble people are being portrayed as arrogant because, in the eyes of insecure individuals, self-confidence and arrogance look identical. True humility has little to do with how you speak or how the media depicts you, and everything to do with the "invisible" efforts you make in private, when no one is watching. #orangebook #Humility #SelfConfidence #Perception

The most talented people actually have very little ego and pride; they are ready to learn from anyone if that helps them get closer to their goals; if anything, they are only proud of their own efforts and of sticking to the highest standards in a world where people are proud of fitting in; and the opposite is true, the most average people are full of ego and pride; they have a very strong idea of what they deserve even though they are never ready to pay the price; they look down on the amount of efforts it takes to build a wealthy life; they are quick to get offended and actually subconsciously put themselves in environments where they never have to question themselves. #orangebook #Ego #Talent #GrowthMindset

Most "drama" are born between people who fell in love with the comfort of lowering their standards until they started blaming each other for not living the life they wanted. #orangebook #Relationships #Standards #Expectations

Getting physically, mentally, spiritually healthy is a natural consequence of genuinely caring about the people you love. Your family and friends want to hang out with the version of yourself that is full of energy, confidence, self-love, not the one that is constantly tired, anxious, self-hating. The quality of your relationships is actually the quality of your self-focus. #orangebook #Health #Relationships #SelfLove

The worst circumstances actually teach you how to appreciate the best circumstances, you just need to stay mentally resilient, believe in your ability to relearn who you are, and execute on a long-term plan that will lead you there. #orangebook #Resilience #Mindset #Planning

Taking risks is actually therapy. #orangebook #RiskTaking #Therapy #MentalHealth

Counterintuitively, you will actually feel "busy" all the time as long as you don't have a clear goal, and you will naturally become more efficient and get much more done once you have plenty of meaningful goals, because you will learn to trim the fat and focus on what matters. #orangebook #GoalSetting #Productivity #Efficiency

So much of getting luckier as you get older boils down to the quality of your everyday conversations, hence to the quality of the person you married. #orangebook #Luck #Conversations #Relationships

People who lack the courage to act love to come up with statistics about how most businesses fail, most marriages fail, how they are already too old, how they were not blessed with "talent," but if they actually had the intelligence to think about their problems with more depth, they'd quickly realize that most businesses fail because most people are ignorant yet arrogant, most marriages fail because most people are not even in a healthy relationship with themselves, and that when it comes to age and talent, the real problem was precisely that mindset that they always had ever since they were younger, and also their inability to unlearn and relearn the way they saw the world and tackled their problems. No one overthinks as much as a coward who chooses to play the victim about where they are in life. #orangebook #Courage #Mindset #Victimhood

If you have enough energy to worry about it, it means your focus is insufficient, it means you are not truly serious about your goals, otherwise, all your energy would be spent on increasing your chances of success, with none left for making pessimistic scenarios in your mind. #orangebook #Focus #Goals #Success

Relationships are actually quite simple if you don’t have the bad habit of closing your eyes when people show you who they are. #orangebook #Relationships #Honesty #Perception