100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late

Most frustration and unhappiness in your life will come from disrespecting the rules of whatever “game” you are a participant in – be it love, business, health, or social life.

To get “promoted” to the next stage in life, do not do what got you to the current stage. Instead, do what people at the next stage do.

PROBLEMS ARE NOT SOLVED BY ADDRESSING THEIR SYMPTOMS, BUT BY ADDRESSING THEIR ROOT CAUSE

Problems are not solved by addressing their symptoms, but by addressing their root cause

“bad decisions in life arise from having optimized for the wrong variable.” Do not optimize your life for other people. Do not optimize it for comfort. Do not optimize it for status. Do not optimize it for success. Do not optimize it for your current self. Instead, optimize your life for long-term self-respect.

Those who live a life they respect are happy. Those who live a life they don’t respect are unhappy.

ACTION: What would you do if you didn’t feel obligated to act like the person you’ve been?

The simple act of taking a pen and writing down the list of problems affecting you and the ways they negatively impact your life will often be all you need.

People don’t want to be happy and successful. Instead, they want to be happy and successful in a particular way, thus ending up unhappy and unsuccessful.