Excellent Advice for Living Kevin Kelly

Always demand a deadline because it weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. A deadline prevents you from trying to make it perfect so you have to make it different. Different is better.

A major part of travel is to leave stuff behind. The more you leave behind the further you will advance.

Movement plus variety equals health

The best way to learn anything is to try to teach what you know.

We lack rites of passage. Create a memorable family ceremony when your child reaches legal adulthood between eighteen and twenty-one. This moment will become a significant touchstone in their life.

Whenever you can’t decide which path to take pick the one that produces change.

Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don’t focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.

Pros make as many mistakes as amateurs; they’ve just learned how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.

Don’t be in haste. When you are in a hurry you are more easily conned or manipulated.

When crises strike don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.

If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure.

Bad things can happen fast but almost all good things happen slowly.

We are not a body that carries a soul. We are a soul that is assigned a body not of our choosing, but in our care.

If your goal does not have a schedule, it is a dream.

Finite games are played to win or lose. Infinite games are played to keep the game going. Seek out infinite games because they yield unlimited rewards.

To succeed, get other people to pay you; to become wealthy, help other people to succeed.

A problem that can easily be solved with money is not really a problem because its solution is obvious. Focus on problems with non-obvious solutions.

Every person you meet knows an amazing lot about something you know virtually nothing about. It won’t be obvious and your job is to discover what it is.

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