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Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .
What we call ‘mastery’ can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.
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Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.
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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.