During the height of Ancient Greece’s influence, one could go to Delphi and visit the renowned Temple of Apollo. It was one of a series of temples built around 550 BCE. Unfortunately, it was destroyed under the influence of Roman emperor Theodosius I, around 390 CE.In one of the pillars in the forecourt of that temple were carved, 3 maxims — said to have been the best advice of the revered 7 sages of ancient Greece. They were:<ul><li>Know thyself.</li><li>Nothing in excess.</li><li>Certainty brings ruin.</li></ul>

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Self-improvement is actually just ongoing, iterative self-discovery.We can’t improve what we don’t understand. And so many of us don’t understand ourselves nearly as well as we think we do. And it’s often during the process of trying to simply find out who we are that we stumble upon the very things that will propel us to incredible personal development.That’s why reflection is such an important part of the journey of self-improvement. But it also explains why so many people are frustrated by that journey.

Know Thyself

Because situations are constantly changing, we also change, knowing yourself is not a one-and-done achievement. Rather, you learn, revise, and rediscover things about yourself. Again, this is why reflection is so important. The less you really know yourself, the less you can trust in yourself to follow through on things. And if you can’t trust in yourself, you don’t have much going for you.

Change Is Always Happening

There’s a theory that dates back to the days of Aristotle that says that any virtue is simply the midway point between two extremes. An excess of something or a deficiency in it ends up being a liability.While people tend to understand that you shouldn’t have too much of anything, they tend to forget that the opposite is true as well. We can get into mindsets where we believe the answer is to impose harsh restrictions on ourselves. No more eating this. No more drinking that.  But this mindset is also an example of excess. It can very quickly backfire on you, even with the best of intentions.

Nothing in Excess

All things being equal, we humans crave certainty. We don’t tend to take risks regularly, and we long for sure things. But anyone who’s thrown down the yokes of comfort to pursue serious personal growth can tell you what happens when you cling to the sure things: stagnation. That stagnation comes by way of dependence.The way it happens is: You get dependent upon the comfort of the sure things. And after a while, you close yourself off to anything that seems to risk that comfort.

Certainty Brings Ruin

For all the ways the world has changed in the last 2,500 years, there are principles from that time that still represent the best advice for modern living. The 3 discussed here are by no means all-encompassing. But they’re at the very least universal.Many of the principles and values we adopt can be derived from these three. Alternatively, following these principles can be gateways to finding the specific values and principles that drive our individual lives forward.

The Bottom Line

During the height of Ancient Greece’s influence, one could go to Delphi and visit the renowned Temple of Apollo. It was one of a series of temples built around 550 BCE. Unfortunately, it was…

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The 2,000 Year Old Temple Inscriptions That Sum Up How Self-Improvement Works

If you make happiness your primary goal, you might miss out on the challenges that give life meaning. Pursuing happiness to the exclusion of other goals -known as psychological hedonism - is not only an exercise in futility. It may also give you a life that you find you don't want, one in which you don't reach your full potential, you're reluctant to take risks, and you choose fleeting pleasures over challenging experiences.

The paradox of happiness

Researchers found that the "most happy" college students had the best social lives but performed worse in school than those who were merely "happy." Another study found that the "most cheerful" were not the highest earners. It again went to the second-highest groups, which rated their cheerfulness as above average, but not the "most cheerful." The way to understand the studies is not to discount happiness, but to remember that a little bit of unhappiness has benefits.

A little unhappiness is beneficial

Research found that some gloom can lead us to pay appropriate attention to problems and find solutions. In other words, when we are sad about something, we are more likely to try and fix it. Too many good feelings can lead us to disregard problems. A study found that the fear of failure is positively correlated with meaning derived from romance, friendship, and family. Bringing good things into your life, such as love or career success usually involves risk. Risk doesn't make us happy and can often bring disappointment. But it can also bring better rewards than if we played it safe.

Some unhappiness can increase meaning

We should not shun good feelings or think it's foolish for wanting to be happy. However, it should not be a goal to chase after positive feelings and fight against negative ones. Happiness would lose its meaning if we were unable to contrast it with some measure of sadness. Although suffering should never be anyone's goal, we can strive for a rich life where we pursue the sunshine but fully experience the rain that inevitably will fall.

The desire for happiness is natural 

If you make happiness your primary goal, you might miss out on the challenges that give life meaning. &nbsp;

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When you run into challenges in your life or at work, it's important to stay positive and keep moving forward, and not give up. The moment you give in to one bad habit, such as coming in later to the office, it’s the start of your downfall. Instead, you should consistently show up so that you are ready for any opportunity that comes your way.

The art of always showing up

<ul><li>You show up for yourself, not for others. Some people dress up or get in shape because it's important to them what others think. More importantly is what you think of yourself.</li><li>You never know when opportunity knocks. If you're in bed when it knocks, you can't say yes to anything.</li><li>Everything happens in cycles. Things usually improve eventually or may go down with time. Ensure that you are consistent.</li><li>Keep yourself busy. You'll feel better when you do useful things.</li><li>Stay proactive. Try something else if your life or career doesn't work out.</li></ul>

The benefits of showing up

Everything happens in cycles. You never know when opportunity comes knocking at your door. Showing up every day helps you to be ready.

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DONT QUIT

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The more one sees of thy fellow man,The more one loves thy dog…

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It’s not the Dog in the fight ,Its the fight In the Dog!!Train it for a Life,, For a life less strife

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Fight if you’re Right  “Beginning to the End                                             A Mans Best Friend ….”

The person who has learned to consistently put themselves in a strong position can take advantage of circumstances while others are forced into a series of poor choices.  We find ourselves in the position we are today because of the accumulation of the small choices that we've been making for years. Eating a chocolate bar today won't make you unhealthy. Saving money today won't make you rich.

Consistently put yourself in a good position

The small choices we make on a daily basis either work for us or against us. One choice can put time on your side. The other ensures to work against you. On the first day, the long-term outcome of your choices will not be noticeable. But as the days turn to weeks, weeks into years, the small choices can create huge results. Compounding results are often only noticed with consistency. The lack of consistency keeps ordinary people from extraordinary results.

Small choices position you for future success

When you excel at the small choices that compound over time, it leaves you in favourable circumstances. But results comes at a price. The price is to consistently continue doing the small choices even if you don't see immediate results.

Excelling at small choices that compound

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. Strong positions are not an accident. Weak positions aren't bad luck. 

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Sometimes we need anime quotes to bring back the good memories.And it’s one of the easiest ways to do it besides music.If you’re a fan of One Punch Man or not, you should check out these 15 anime quotes One Punch Man has to offer.And if it leaves you amused, entertained or encouraged, that’s a job well done!

Mightiest Quotes For Becoming Mightiest By Saitama

“You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little longer.”

“I’m not a hero because I want your approval. I do it because I want to!”

“I’ll leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow’s me.”

“Overwhelming strength is boring.”

“You gotta train like hell until the point where your hair falls out. That’s the only way to become truly strong.”

“100 Push ups. 100 sit ups. And 100 squats. Then a 10 kilometer run. Do it every single day!”

“Human beings are strong because we can change ourselves.”

“You have to keep doing it. No matter how difficult it gets. It took me a full 3 years to get this strong.”

“When I was a little boy I wanted to be a hero. Not some damn business man. But a superhero who could send rotten villains like you flying with one punch.”

“If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?”

“If you really want to become strong, stop caring about what others think about you. Living your life has nothing to do with what others think.”

“Is that really the limit of your strength? Could the you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.”

“In exchange for power, maybe I’ve lost something that’s essential for a human being?”

"Never ever give up."

Working hard when you care if anyone is watching you or not is never the real hard work. Working hard when no one is watching you is the real game. Thats what I learnt from Saitama aka One Punch Man.

One Punch man has a large list of heroes with their own quotes. Which are both hilarious, funny and motivational. Here are 15 of the best worth sharing!

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15 Of The Mightiest Anime Quotes From One Punch Man

You can choose different wording if you like, but I always write the date and time, and then "Today, I..." And then write down the most important things you accomplished that day.
You can write down as many or as few items as you like, but make sure to include the things that are most important to you. And be careful to only include the positive. Only include what you did get done.

Write: "Today, I..."

Again, you can choose different wording if you like. But the important thing is that you choose one priority for the upcoming day. Even though there may be several important things you have to do tomorrow, you must pick the single thing that matters to you most. 
It can be challenging to do but it's an important exercise because it forces you to think through what really matters most. What's the one thing that, if you get it right, you will feel that you've won the day?

Write: "Priority for tomorrow:"

Why? Because research suggests that the last thing you pay attention to before sleep will stay in your mind. This is the reason you should try to avoid reading the news at bedtime.
Giving yourself a jolt of positivity is useful any time of day, but it's a particularly powerful thing to do right before you go to sleep because that too will stick with you. It's sure to better your mood and increase your motivation, and that effect might even last through your mood the following day.

Make this the last thing you do before bed

Make it the last thing before you turn out the light.

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<ul><li>Attracting exceptional people is a startup's most important task outside of finding product-market fit.</li><li>The most effective way to hire extraordinary people is to be so persistent it hurts.</li><li>Persistence and pestering are twins with scarcely a mark to distinguish them.</li><li>Find the right words, the right message, you can persist - if you fail, you pester.</li></ul>

Be Persistent

High impact work requires concentration, often for hours at a time. Levels Health gives its team the maximum possible deep work time by actively discouraging tools like Slack and meetings.This creates a business that runs asynchronously, reducing interruptions and protecting unbroken deep work.

Maximize Deep Work Time

Every successful company cares about serving its customers to some extent, but very few are genuinely obsessed with pleasing them in that word's truest meaning.To please your customers, you must obsess over them.A good example of true customer obsession is Coupang, who take extraordinary measures to improve their service, including giving delivery people a manual outlining the most esoteric details.

Obsess Over Your Customer

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

As tech insinuates itself into every aspect of our lives, companies and protocols act as pseudo-nation states with enormous impact and broad scopeTerra, a crypto project, takes inspiration from the founding of Singapore and how prime minister Lee Kuan Yew fostered prosperity.

Think Like a Nation-State

Sometimes aligning incentives involves tinkering, like spinning out part of the team to capitalize on an idea directly.The goal is the same: maximum incentive alignment.Example: AngelList constantly tinkers to align incentives for its many experiments.

Align the Incentives

Move to a space that captures instant eyeballs, especially if you have missed the early train.There is a difference between having a well-known brand and an influential one. FTX has made one of the most ambitious attempts to secure the latter.Entering the American market late, the cryptocurrency exchange has sought to capture attention and influence by partnering with beloved sporting institutions, buying the naming rights to the Miami Heat's arena, and sponsoring MLB uniforms.

Invest in Soft-Power

Built optionality into the product by designing the platform to host the long-tail of assets.<ul><li>Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah founded OpenSea when NFTs were scarcely a blip on the world's radar.</li><li>They preserved optionality by keeping burn low and bringing in money through fees.</li><li>When "PFP" collectibles like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks took off in 2021, OpenSea was well-positioned to capitalize.</li></ul>

Provide Optionality In Products

Focus on how you can intensify your most pronounced advantage.For example, Tiger Global focuses on its greatest strengths by moving quickly and relying on an encyclopedic knowledge of successful business models to pick winners, even at the cost of outsourcing commoditized operations.

Intensify Your Advantage

Define yourself by what you're not.<ul><li>Telegram has defined itself as a user-friendly private alternative to Big Blue's surveillance state.</li><li>As Facebook has fumbled through data breaches and congressional hearings, Telegram's allure has only grown more pronounced.</li></ul>

Find Your Counter-Positioning

Great businesses never sit still. They are constantly in a state of reinvention and internal bottoms-up disruption. Doing so opens new opportunities and protects against competitive displacement.To stave off staleness and disruption, businesses must innovate from within.

Proactively Reinvent Yourself

Nice pointers for businesses to go from also rans to success.

After publishing over half a million words on some of the world’s most innovative businesses, these are the 10 lessons I come back to again and again. You’ll find tactics from Stripe, FTX, Tiger Global, OpenSea, and other exceptional organizations.

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It can be hard to disentangle whether effort is a cause or a consequence in a given situation. But we can look at effort through a feedback loop that looks like this:Effort > performance > pleasure > motivation > effort.

The Link Between Effort and Performance

In reality, one’s ability to put in an effort typically arises as a consequence of something, not as a major cause.<ul><li>To accomplish something, making an effort depends more on the right time and right place, rather than being the focal point. </li><li>It’s also a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy: If we believe in our abilities to accomplish something, we are more motivated, then we perform better, which feeds our belief in our abilities, and so on and so forth, leading to an ongoing cycle of effort-as-a-consequence.</li><li>Exerting effort is not always something that we can do over long periods of time.</li></ul>

Effort-Consequence Instead of Effort-Cause

The trick is to refrain from seeing effort as a cause or as a consequence, but rather as both. By seeing it this way, we can organize performance over the long term and generate an "addictive loop"—meaning a drive to repeat behaviors that are pleasurable by themselves.This approach counters the tendency to overestimate our ability to both make an undesired effort as well as resist the temptation of alternative pleasurable activities. An addictive loop approach avoids those two obstacles by aiming for activities that generate pleasure—hence our desire to make an effort, hence more activities.

Keeping Up the Good Work: Behavioral Loops and Pleasure

The role of leaders is to put in place a system of efforts-as-consequences, generating a spiral where outcomes get bigger and better as time goes on.<ul><li>Don’t neglect indirect activities that create pleasure, like giving feedback and offering training sessions. </li><li>Avoid a “no pain, no gain” mentality. </li><li>Grant people autonomy. </li><li>Leverage psychological drivers. For instance, the Pygmalion effect - people perform better just by feeling that their leader believes in them.</li><li>Orient discreetly through a gentle nudge. </li><li>Use social validation.  </li></ul>

Lessons for Leaders

Individuals can consciously organize themselves into performance-effort loops. <ul><li>Build an identity. Our actions tend to align with how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. </li><li>Make it a habit. Your brain is a creature of habit, and science has therefore identified habit formation as a key for success.</li><li>Be playful. Pleasure and play are linked—and if we frame something as a game, it can be more engaging and less depleting. </li><li>Break it down. If a large, long-term project is too overwhelming, break it into smaller tasks.</li></ul>

Lessons for Individuals

Such extrinsic motivation schemes—where effort is forced by external rewards—have been shown to lead generally to undesirable outcomes. While we can’t ignore them as short-term tactics, they only work in limited contexts, and only if properly inserted in a scheme balanced with intrinsic motivations.

Avoid Forced Effort

Viewing effort as part of a feedback loop could help us enjoy the process.

How to Get Hooked on Making an Effort

"Sometimes not everything that we want will happen, but that doesn't mean we have to give up"

One of the bad thoughts of humans is that when their goals or what they want are not achieved, they will think that they have failed. Even though it is not a failure. If we really think it's a failure then we must also really think that is the beginning of our success.

Bad Thoughts

When the that thing we want is not achieved or we are facing a failure, sometimes we get confused and become more overthinking then in the end we will give up. If we are experiencing something like that, it would be nice if we did a rest and think phase.Resting and Thinking Phase is a phase where we rest ourselves, mentally and mind from something bad that has happened or is happening but we still make plans for what we will do next. Or in other words we do refreshing but still think about the next step so that we don't think too much about the bad things in the problem.

Resting and Thinking Phase

In life we ​​have to make a lot of plans because if one plan doesn't come true, we can make other plans.For example, let's assume our plan is plan A, plan B, plan C. Then our first step is to do plan A but plan A is fails, because we have other plans so we can do plan B or the next plan.So what should we do if all our plans are fail?The answer is that we surrender all our plans to the God, it doesn't mean we give up, it's just that we keep fighting and trying but we trust whatever happens in the future to our God.

Plan A and Other Plans

Basically we have no reason to give up.Because actually we won't know what will happen in the future if we give up now. Let's think, do you know what will happen in your life tomorrow? Of course you don't know but if you think the bad things will happen tomorrow, trust me it's just your bad thoughts.We may fail today but it turns out that in the future we will get success.

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"Actually our life that we have to live is praying, learning and struggling. The problem of failing or succeeding is part of our destiny but God always has a good plan for humans."

It's just  simple ideas from me if we will face a failure :')

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