13 Notes on Wisdom

1. “When I suffer a setback, I don’t think of myself as losing, I’m simply learning how to win.” – Ted Turner
2.  ”Successful people make the right decisions early in life and then manage them daily.” – John Maxwell

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Quotes from Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once your good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard”…combined with siezed opportunity.

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

Review of Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

We all love the stories of people who work their way up from the bottom. We aspire to the greatness of the elite. In Outliers, we examine these extreme success stories very closely. Our careful study shows a common theme – all outliers were willing to make a move and work very hard, but perhaps more importantly, they are presented with unprecidented opportunities of timing, race, culture, location, etc. In essence they were blessed with a perfect set of circumstances completely outside their contol.

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Review of The Traveler’s Guide – Andy Andrews

I obviously found a significant amount of value in The Visitor bc I went out and picked up another book by Andrews the next day. This one took a bit longer to read, but that is not do to a lack of interest on my part. This book required me to slow down and think. I believe I underlines more in this book than any other I have read before. It’s not that anything lifechanging was reveald to me for the first time, it’s more like truth that I have always knows was affirmed and applied in a lifechanging way. The seven truths carefully gifted from well known historical and spiritual figures are –

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Quotes from The Traveler’s Gift – Andy Andrews

“Failure exists only for the person who quits.”

“The words ‘It’s not my fault’ have been written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve bit the apple.”

“God did not give me the ability to always make right decisions, but He has enabled me to make a decision and then make it right.”

“In times of adversity, I will not have a problem to deal with; I will have a choice to make.”

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