Tim S Grover

The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. Instinct is raw clay that can be shaped into a masterpiece, if you develop skills that match your talent. That can only come from learning everything there is to know about what you do

Every right decision I’ve ever made has come from my gut, and every wrong decision I’ve ever made was a result of me not listening.”

Every day, millions of people showed up to hear someone tell them what they were doing wrong, so they could receive instructions on how to live according to someone else’s standards.
I wonder if any of those people came away understanding this:
People don’t change. You can make millions of dollars or lose millions of dollars, you can get a promotion or lose your job, gain forty pounds or lose forty pounds . . . but you’re still the same person.

Stop thinking. Stop waiting. You already know what to do

Staying safe means being limited, and you can’t be limited if you’re going to be relentless

If you’re so intensely wired to attack and win, you can’t just turn that on and off, it’s who you are, it defines you. Never exhaling. Never satisfied. We’re talking about day after day, year after year, getting on top and staying there. Being the best and still wanting to improve. Not just thinking about success, but striving to prove it, prove it, prove it. No days off. What are you going to do instead to satisfy that craving?

Can you control that intensity when you want to, briefly and appropriately? Sure you can. But you rarely want to. When all you think about is winning, you just want to stay in that Zone where it’s dark and cool and it’s just you and your thoughts

It completely loses its power, unless you’re willing to stand up and say, “Yeah, so what?” and go right on doing whatever you were doing.
That’s how you keep your dark side dark

win something, they all come running back.

There is no better way to intimidate the competition: I went through all of this, and my game went up? You fuckers have no chance