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Everyone has a little voice inside their head that's angry and afraid. That voice is the resistance--your lizard brain--and it wants you to be average (and safe).
page: 5
tags:
resistance
comfort
The discipline of shipping is essential to the long-term path to becoming indispensable. Not shipping on behalf of your goal of changing the world is often a symptom of the resistance. Call its bluff, ship always, and __then__ change the world. The only purpose of starting is to finish.
page: 103
tags:
shipping
indispensability
goals
resistance
finishing
Every time you find yourself following the manual instead of writing the manual, you're avoiding the anguish and giving in to the resistance.
page: 107
tags:
resistance
art
The resistance makes people avoid learning to be more productive, because they're afraid that then maybe they'd actually have to do something. Same goes to the folks filling up notebooks with tips and tasks.
page: 115
tags:
productivity
note-taking
resistance
The temptation to sabotage the new thing is huge, precisely because the new thing might work.
page: 122
tags:
resistance
Don't listen to the cynics; they're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
page: 126
tags:
criticism
cynicism
resistance
When we agree to define our success on others' terms, especially other people who don't particularly like us and aren't inclined to root for us, we're giving in to the resistance.
page: 147
tags:
resistance
success
When a tough call spawns complaints or resistance, your job is to listen and explain yourself clearly but move forward. Do not dwell or cajole.
page: 72
tags:
resistance