If you are scared of ignoring the whole world for a few hours every day, you are not serious about your goal. #orangebook #Discipline

The quality of your book is the quality of your mind at the time of the writing. If you don't feel relaxed and rested, if you are not having fun as you are crafting your thoughts, the book won't embody these qualities either. #orangebook #WritingQuality #AuthorMindset

People who succeeded out of spite and desire to “win” often fail to realize that they are suffocating people who are succeeding when they are doing what they love at their own pace. #orangebook #Success #Passion

If thinking about it won't fix the problem, it's a sign of intelligence to redirect your energy elsewhere. #orangebook #ProblemSolving

If you have to sacrifice your health and your relationships to get to whatever "success" you are aiming for, the only outcome is actually failure. #orangebook

To get lucky is to fail more often than most people even tried. #orangebook #Luck

Intelligence isn't about getting what you want, it's about getting what you need; most people will actually live their whole lives never noticing that so many of their "wants" are actually manufactured by other people. #orangebook #Intelligence #Needs

A lot of success boils down to figuring out the kind of sufferings you need whilst avoiding the kind of sufferings that only drain your time and energy. There is no greatness without suffering, but most sufferings also lead nowhere. #orangebook #Suffering #Success

It's actually funny how many people who advocate for "diversity" will either get very offended or very judgmental if your values don't align with theirs. #orangebook

When you trade your ambition for comfort, you actually end up living your whole life with the very uncomfortable idea that you betrayed yourself. #orangebook #Ambition #Comfort

A lot of people don't want to do any deep thinking themselves, that's why they often seek advice from more "successful" people, without understanding that everyone out there is simply validating their own story, and that what works for you is likely something entirely else. #orangebook #DeepThinking #SelfAdvice

A great investment gives you the freedom to explore who you could be and go live your best life; if you have to spend most of your time monitoring numbers on a screen, you are anything but wealthy. #orangebook

You struggle to sleep at night when your days are not full enough, and you struggle to wake up in the morning when your purpose is not clear enough. #orangebook

If you have time to complain about how the game is unfair, you have time to figure out what game you should play if you want to win next time. #orangebook

Cynicism disappears when you are happy with your life. Anger disappears when you are happy with who you have around. Envy disappears when you are happy with who you are. #orangebook

A lot of people who think they are "open-minded" actually lack the courage of making choices and standing up for something they believe in, and they often spend their whole lives never getting "lucky" because they were always too scared of committing to one direction. #orangebook

"Diversity" has nothing to do with tolerating behaviors that are harmful to everyone else in society. #orangebook

You'd be surprised by the number of "successful" people who actually got there out of spite or personal insecurities, but truth is, the journey of life is actually so much more fun when you do what you do because you enjoy it, and not because you have something to prove. #orangebook

Lack of depth is just lack of courage to deviate from the beaten tracks. #orangebook

At the beginning, most people just want money in order to alleviate their financial stress; they also want it to create an environment that allows them to focus on what they are actually talented at; but somehow, once they reach these milestones, greed takes over, they get influenced by the many people who are obsessed with power; they start upgrading their lifestyle instead of fulfilling their potential; and it's often way too late when they realize that they actually lived the life that someone else set up for them. #orangebook