Your mountain is the block between you and the life you want to live. Facing it is also the only path to your freedom and becoming.

To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.

This is not mastery for the purpose of dominating nature or other people, but for determining our fate.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated.

Affect heuristic: making decisions based on our emotions on the topic.

Never pay more for a stock than its firm foundation of value.

Bad Behavior Is a Problem, Not a Character Flaw

If you lack the motivation to make an important change in your life, do something—anything, really—and then harness the reaction to that action as a way to begin motivating yourself.

It's about building a better system, a better machine, a better product, or a better something that will leverage your work. While in the Slowlane you do the work, in the Fastlane you construct a system that does it for you.