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"You don't need an MBA from Harvard to figure out how to lose money." —Royal LittleYou don't need a X to figure out YX = prestigious thing that is overvalued

-Y = Opposite of what people want		What is something that everyone wants in your field, but acutally causes harm? (permanent corporate job)

What is something people want when they normally do that thing? What's the opposite called? (less safety)		You don't need a corporate job to figure out how to be less safe

you don't need a job to figure out the least effective way of building wealth		Single inversionDouble Inversion
(Comparative)		SarchasticWinners & losersWinners and losers have a lot in commonUnder or over-ratedAnimalPlantsCelestialMath Share your expertiseSarcasticThe one thing, / Simplication + Leverage
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bait/hookSeed / Germuniversefraction, equationIn three words I can sum up everything
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"Winners and Losers have the same goals"40X and Y have the same Z

X = Y

X and Y have the same goals.

Winners and losers have the same X

Two things you think are the opposite are actually the same on a certain level
X = who you want to be
Y = the opposite
Z = What people tend to wrongly focus on (unimportant thing people overvalue)

X = top of the distribution curve
Y = bottom of the distribution curve
Z = what they have in common
Who do you want to be?
Who do you not want to be?


What do the winners and losers in your field have in common?		“Winners and Losers have the same macOS” —Selma

All journalists are taught to question authority. Great journalists do X...

Winners and losers have spent years taking classes. What sets winners apart is X...

Good and bad marketers focus on the customer. Great marketers do X. 		1
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“The truth is simple. If it was complicated everyone would understand it.”74
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“You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”83
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”41
Without X, Y would be Z

Without [Metaphor], [CATEGORY] would be [GOOD/BAD]
X = something that is not necessarily perceived as essential that you consider essential
X = undervalued thing that makes your heeart sing

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X = Singing, Wine, Food, Loneliness, Spending A Time Alone

Y = Life, getting married, having kids, starting a business, going to college

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without practice, learning would be meaningless

Without wine, food would be tasteless
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You can make anything by writing. C.S.Lewis43
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80% of success is showing up.29Woody AllenX% of Y is Z.X = percentage of formula
Y = Result
Z = Action that gets result

Thing that people would normally consider table stakes is actually way more important than you think		1
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime43Honoré De BalzacBehind every great X, there is a YX = result person, result
Y = Underappreciated thing		"Behind every great man, there is a woman."1
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.160Leo TolstoyA man 1
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Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.		87Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows." —Thoreau

"To thine own self be true.” —Shakespeare

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." —Robert Frost
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One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.72Albert Camus
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”69Steve Jobs
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"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." 77Confucius
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." 58Dr. Seuss
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"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."52African Proverb
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."53John F. Kennedy
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"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."78Albert Einstein
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"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."93Jim Rohn
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"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them . A desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammed Ali139
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"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation." - Brigham Young102
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius54
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"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball100
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"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan99
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He who leaves the game wins it.31
Sometimes you get the furthest by going the opposite direction
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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss118
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss69
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TwoSociety is made up of two great classes: those who have more dinners tahn appetite, and those who have more appettite than dinners.
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein		115“Two things are infinite: the universe and X; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

2 things are Z (unique quality): X (obvious thing) + Y (not obvious thing)		X = Curiosity, Dog Love, To Do List, Email

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Z (unique quality) =
Where am I surprised people or things going wrong?

What things are infinite with pets, family, work?
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”53Marcus Tullius CiceroX/Y=A/B

Body without a soul
- Home without furniture/family
- Song wihtout a tune
- Car without wheels
- Goal without a plan
- Life
- Relationships
- Career wihtout joy
- Sprint wihtout a finish line		What is the essence of it?

What gives a homey feel? 		A Business without processes, is like a body without a skeleton

A habit without celebration is like a rocket without fuel		11
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch		129
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West		72
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi		67
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost		92In X words I can sum up everything I've learned about Y: ZX = 3,4, 5
Y = Life, Career, Family, Niche
Z = Your lesson
What domain are you teaching on?

What is your #1 lesson you've learned?

How could you condense that lesson into 2-5 words?
“In 6 words I can sum up everything I've learned about learning: learn to write, write to learn."

“In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about family: attention is love."
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“Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”77Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it1
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Light tomorrow with today. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned. SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Grothe, Mardy. I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like (p. 28). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. PEARL S. BUCK

Grothe, Mardy. I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like (p. 28). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition. 		1
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Wealth doesn't make you happy but it helps you to ensdure happiness
Acknowledge people's criticism and then share a thing that it does do.
Writing doesn't make you a novelist, but it does do X
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While there's life, there's hopeCiceroWhile there's X, there's hope
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The greater the difficulity, the greater the gloryCiceroThe greater the X, the greater the benefit
The more you learn, the more ideas you have. The more ideas you have, the better ideas you have. T
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Whoso would be a man must be a non-comformist.Emerson
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The time is always right to do the right thingMLK Jr
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Our lives being to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Our X beings to end the day we become Y. X - life, career
Y - things that matter
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HackAs to the adjective, when in doubt strike it outMark TwainAs to the X, when in doubt, strike it out
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DefinitionPatience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. -Unknown
X is not the ability to Y, but the ability to keep a good Y while Y
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
X sees Y in every Z.
-X sees Z in every Y.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story,
and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares
the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Grothe, Mardy. I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like (p. 120). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.
James Barrie, author of peter Pan
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