Quotes About Development

That's the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:

For every stage in life, you discover books that speak to you, that help you change, to become the version of yourself that you need to be. It's so very difficult to choose one book.

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To

For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the best SEO," as Robert Scoble originally told me. You

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. . . . Everyone is fighting a battle [and has fought battles] you know nothing about.

work on the deficiencies you're most embarrassed by.

What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made? "If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Failure is highly underrated.

I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.

Life is not designed to hand us success or satisfaction, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow.

Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen.

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

If you want to be a stud later, you have to be a pud now.

Strength is a skill, and, as such, it must be practiced.

If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our next reads are Stretch by Scott Sonenshein and Lead Yourself First by Kethledge and Erwin.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Changing on the Job.

Creo que la gente no aprende mucho en realidad del fracaso.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions. Fortunately, this is a skill you can develop.