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1 " Be careful about what you think you know. Because you can't always believe everything you think. "
― Andy Andrews , The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results
2 " If it is true that your choices determine your destiny, and if the truth is that your thinking determines your choices, then it is, in fact, your thinking that determines your destiny. "
3 " The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else. "
4 " Because how you think determines who you are, it also determines who you are becoming and who you ultimately become. "
5 " On the top deck, it is easy to believe what one sees is the same throughout the ship. But if one of the officers has slipped below and drilled a hole in the hull, smooth sailing is only an illusion. "
6 " Bottom of the pool: if you want folks to choose you—each and every time—then the greater value you have created had better be obvious. "
7 " How you think is massively influenced and largely determined by what you read, hear, and watch. "
8 " Misusing our imagination grants power to fear. Know that fear and its many demon relatives do not--and cannot--exist without a human host. "