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Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing QUOTES

Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing QUOTES

1 " People often ask me what they can do to be moresuccessful. I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and Wi-Fi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create. That’s what’s rare and valuable these
days.

You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming. "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

2 " Learning without doing is wasted. If I don’t use what I learn, then it was pointless! How horrible to waste those hundreds of hours I spent learning, and not turn it into action. "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

3 " If you keep experiencing the same things, your mind keeps its same patterns. Same inputs, same responses. Your brain, which was once curious and growing, gets fixed into
deep habits. Your values and opinions harden and resist change.

You really learn only when you’re surprised. If you’re not surprised, then everything is fitting into your existing thought patterns. So to get smarter, you need to get surprised, think in new ways, and deeply understand different perspectives.

With effort, you could do this from the comfort of home. But the most effective way to shake things up is to move across the world. Pick a place that’s most unlike what you
know, and go. This keeps you in a learning mindset. Previously mindless
habits, like buying groceries, now keep your mind open, alert, and noticing new things. New arrivals in a culture often notice what the locals don’t. (Fish don’t know they’re in water.) "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

4 " We want to see the world clearly and know what’s what. But once we’re past the first stage of wisdom, the next stage involves adapting to new changes. We don’t get wise just by adding and adding. We also need to subtract. "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

5 " A bad goal makes you say, “I want to do that some day.” A great goal makes you take action immediately. "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

6 " We shouldn’t preserve our first opinions as if they reflect our pure, untarnished, true nature. They’re often just the result of inexperience or a temporary phase. Old opinions shouldn’t define who we are in the future. "

― Derek Sivers , Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing