My favorite book of 2016. It’s extremely well-written, provides higher-level thoughts on success and emphasizes the importance of the process. It tells a narrative based on 50 Cent’s life and his rise to the top, which I found very inspiring. Definitely recommended to anyone that’s trying to do something big.
“What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power.”
“…This meant that he would have to place himself again and again in the situations that stimulated anxiety.”
Self-help books and experts will try to convince you that you can have what you want by following a few simple steps. Things that come easy and fast will leave you just as fast.
Most people wait too long to go into action, generally out of fear.
This venture has to succeed and so it will.
“..the moral is to the physical as three to one—meaning the motivation and energy levels you or your army bring to the encounter have three times as much weight as your physical resources.”
“..which saw change as the essence of nature, and conforming to these changes as the source of all power.”
PEOPLE WISH TO BE SETTLED; ONLY AS FAR AS THEY ARE UNSETTLED IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THEM. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
By a paradoxical law of human nature, trying to please people less will make them more likely in the long run to respect and treat you better.
“…progressing step-by-step was the only way to succeed in anything.”
To make this work you must choose a career or a craft that excites you in some deep way. You are creating no dividing line between work and pleasure. Your pleasure comes in mastering the process itself, and in the mental immersion it requires.
ALL OF MAN’S TROUBLES COME FROM NOT KNOWING HOW TO SIT STILL, ALONE IN A ROOM.
He realized that the key in life is to always be willing to walk away. He was often surprised that in doing so, or even feeling that way, people would come back to him on his terms, now fearing what they might lose in the process.