100 simple truths that will help you look at the world in a new way
Miscellaneous / / January 19, 2022
Another reason to remember the really important things.
The designer, known on the Internet as Traf, became famous when in just a week he earnedDesigner makes £77,000 from iPhone icons in a week / BBC News $100,000 on his collection of iPhone app icons. On my blogTraf he wrote down 100 thoughts about life, work and creativity, which will allow you to reconsider your attitude towards them and, perhaps, become one step closer to your own success.
1. Any item is 100% off if you don't buy it.
2. Not wanting something is the same as having it.
3. Other people's success does not mean your failure.
4. Questions open the mind, statements keep it closed.
5. While you're wasting time on things you can't control, you're taking time away from things you can't. can control.
6. Creativity is just the ability to combine interest and initiative.
7. Success, like happiness, should not be pursued. It must come from actions.
8. Compliments and insults are equally valuable.
9. Consuming information will not make you smarter. Unlike its application in practice.
10. Learn to be happy with what you already have while you work towards what you want.
11. Life is too short not to take advantage of the best opportunities you know.
12. Inspiration multiplies productivity, but it is short-lived. Act fast.
13. Minimalism is not about having nothing. It is that nothing possesses you.
14. If you lost motivation because the path to the goal turned out to be too long, remember that this time would have passed anyway.
15. People don't care what you can do. They care about what you can do for them.
16. How much you eat affects the figure, how much you move affects the form.
17. If you don't have time for something, then it doesn't matter.
18. Choose consistency over intensity because only consistency has a cumulative effect.
19. Most traditions are solutions to forgotten problems.
20. You were born on the same day, you will die on the same day, and you can change on the same day.
21. “Yesterday” has already passed, and “tomorrow” has not yet come. There is only "today".
22. Don't pay attention to anything until it's important so you can focus better when needed.
23. The more choice, the less we act. Do more by doing less.
24. It is not the situation itself that is upsetting, but its interpretation.
25. Focus is saying no to almost everything.
26. You can either fulfill your dream or help someone else's dream come true.
27. Stop trading time for money. Start exchanging value for money.
28. Teaching that how to study - the best place to invest your time.
29. Circumstances have nothing to do with our emotional state.
30. Discipline is choosing between what you want right now and what you want more than anything.
31. The real value of money is that you can afford to stop doing it when you have it.
32. If you lower your expectations, disappointment will rarely come.
33. Creativity is an endless source: the more you spend, the more you get.
34. Each "no" expands the possibilities to fulfill the future "yes".
35. The gap between where you are now and where you want to be is much smaller than it seems.
36. Ideas are worthless if you are not ready to act.
37. Be interesting to others by being interested in them.
38. Every person you meet knows something that you don't.
39. Speak when you have something to say, not when you want to say something.
40. Mediocrity is the path of least resistance, so it is full of competitors.
41. Permanent employment is not a sign of distinction, but a sign of lack of freedom.
42. Thoughts and feelings are always a choice. Control them or they will control you.
43. What you lack is not motivation, but a good reason.
44. Time is the most valuable resource. Use it wisely.
45. If you were wrong, admit it. If you are right, don't brag about it.
46. The brain is not filled with new information - it expands with it.
47. If the task can be completed in five minutes, do not postpone it for later - do it now.
48. Your main competitor is yourself.
49. Life gives only what you decide you can have.
50. The Internet erases the barriers to deep knowledge of anything.
51. Ignore the noise around you - people will criticize you no matter what you do.
52. Avoiding stupidity is often a much better strategy than pursuing genius.
53. If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
54. There is no right or wrong time. There is only time itself and how you decide to use it.
55. You can steal as many ideas as you want, but the momentum to action comes from within.
56. Learn to be comfortable when you have to change your mind in the light of new information.
57. Food is the source of food for the brain, and information is the source of food for the mind. You are what you consume.
58. Read to find new ideas, write them down to understand, and practice to learn new things.
59. Current habits are a teaser of the desired future.
60. Past mistakes are the best teachers.
61. Hard work does not move forward if you work on the wrong thing.
62. Being alone is a physical experience, feeling alone is a mental one.
63. Silence is a blank slate for your thoughts.
64. If you don't see your job as work, you have no competition.
65. Compare yourself to those who are higher and you will feel jealous. Compare yourself to those below and you will feel grateful.
66. You are not your words or thoughts. You are your actions.
67. There are no ideas in a million. There is only the implementation of ideas in a million.
68. Your beliefs are what you are willing to be content with.
69. Answering “yes” benefits others. The answer "no" benefits you.
70. The quality of thinking determines the quality of life.
71. You can become a great specialist if you constantly remain a good specialist.
72. Spending time on things that save time is always a good idea.
73. Different points of life connect only in retrospect.
74. Content consumption makes you work for the internet. Content creation makes the internet work for you.
75. Hours spent do not equal effort.
76. Fortune favors those who are on the move.
77. What separates creators and consumers is not the ability to create, but the willingness to bring what has been created to the public.
78. If you are not bored with learning, you will never be bored with life.
79. The more you move, the easier it is to keep moving.
80. The only working productivity hack is loving what you do.
81. How you do one thing tells how you do everything else.
82. Beliefs have much more to do with what is close to you personally than with the truth.
83. Constant incremental improvements are better than perfection postponed until later.
84. Do a lot of the things you love to find a few things you really love.
85. The first impression does not depend on appearance, but on energy.
86. If something doesn't work out for you, then you're just getting started.
87. Death is the price we pay for life. Deal with it.
88. The faster you pay your bills, the less it will cost you.
89. Motivation usually comes after the start, not before.
90. Dignity is to be yourself in any circumstances.
91. Increase your chance of success by increasing your chance of failure.
92. The price of everything in this life is money, time or attention.
93. Discipline is doing what you hate as if you love it.
94. The less material to work with, the more you can squeeze out of it.
95. Absorb the useful, skip the unnecessary and add the unique from yourself.
96. Most of the bad things in life are caused by too much or too little of something.
97. If you are reading this, you have everything you need to get started.
98. Peace is the absence of desire.
99. Nobody owes you anything.
100. See p. 99.
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