What I believe
Life is too short - I need to leave behind as many memories as I can, for myself, for other people, and for the world.
A few favorites
01Practice
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
02Conviction
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
03Confidence
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.”
Make something people want
Whenever I build something, I care about whether it can bring real value. I don’t want to waste a single minute doing things that are useless or meaningless. Once I believe something is worth doing and commit to it, I care deeply about the user experience: whether people get what they want and stay with it.
Most voices are noise - Do not listen to them
Most people haven’t been through what you’ve been through. They don’t have the same background, experiences, mindset, goals, personality, or anything else. Nothing is really the same. So why on earth would you listen to someone else?
Suffering and pain are key to success
I enjoy being alone. I enjoy working alone. I enjoy lifting alone. I enjoy doing everything alone. The biggest reason is that I enjoy the struggle, the pain, the setbacks, and the suffering. Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
P.S. If you’re my friend seeing this, I’d be happy if you leave me alone.
“People with very high expectations have very low resilience, and unfortunately resilience matters in success. Greatness doesn’t come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character isn’t formed out of smart people; it is formed out of people who have suffered. I don’t know how to teach you, but I could wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.”
Believe in what I believe - Sky is my limit
“We approach the most ambitious problems with full conviction that we can solve them. The biggest limit on what we achieve is what we believe we can achieve – so we choose to believe we can do anything.”
What am I willing to trade for success?
- Focus
- do so much volume that it would be unreasonable to not be successful
- Patience
- always delay gratification
- Resilience
- life fucks me 100 times, I get up 101
- Risk
- 1 minus 0.8 to the power of 10 = 0.8926258176
- Delusion
- allidoiswin.dev
06 / The commonplace book
Lines I’ve saved
“The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.”
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.”
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people; it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
“Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.”
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
“Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.”
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
“It's never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
A line to question. Understanding power interests me; making people afraid to disagree is a poor way to build a team.