Key Takeaways 

• People live out all of the potential downsides in the mere reflection of what other people will think about them in the future, should they fail
• Shame only exists in the shadows; identify when you have the hesitation to confront something and ask yourself why you may be experiencing that hesitation
• The difference between successful people and the most successful people is that the most successful people say no to almost everything
• Success comes down to doing the obvious thing for an extraordinary period of time without convincing yourself that you are smarter than you are
• The first step to achieving a massive dream is conquering tiny impulses
• Opportunities only look like opportunities in the rear-view mirror; today, they only seem like risk
• Most of the pain that people experience is purely in their own minds
• There is always someone who has had it worse and has done it better
• Power follows the blame finger: you give power to wherever you point the blame to
• Pain moves people far more effectively than pleasure does
• We commonly sacrifice the thing we want for the thing that is supposed to get it
• Three most common traits that hyper-successful people have: a superiority complex, insecurity, and impulse control
• What is the thing that you can do longer than anyone else where to them it looks like work, and to you, feels like play?
• Constantly ask yourself: “What are we optimizing for?”
• Try to be directionally correct instead of trying to be absolutely correct