Recipe for success: under-promise and over-deliver.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did； they will only remember how you made them feel.
If you have any doubt at all about being able to carry a load in one trip， do yourself a huge favor and make two trips.
That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.
The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.
Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something， anything”. Through mastery of one thing， you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy， and eventually discover where your bliss is.
Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.
Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job， buy the very best you can afford.
A vacation + a disaster = an adventure.
Experience is overrated. When hiring， hire for aptitude， train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.
Eliminating clutter makes room for your true treasures.
When someone is nasty， rude， hateful， or mean with you， pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
Don’t ever respond to a solicitation or a proposal on the phone. The urgency is a disguise.
Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know， ask them who you should ask next， and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source， you’ll almost always get your answer.
Acquiring things will rarely bring you deep satisfaction. But acquiring experiences will.
Art is in what you leave out.
If you desperately need a job， you are just another problem for a boss； if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now， you are hired. To be hired， think like your boss.
Don’t say anything about someone in email you would not be comfortable saying to them directly， because eventually they will read it.