Top Highlights

• “What, specifically, do you want to achieve?” He was careful to point out that he was asking not what I thought I could achieve, but what I really wanted to achieve.
• “Why must you achieve these goals?” He asked me to dig deeper and come up with as many reasons as I could because, as he explained, “You’ll need that leverage over yourself for the times when you don’t feel like doing what it is you need to do.”
• “Are you interested in, or are you committed to, achieving these goals and living the life of your dreams?”
• Are you merely interested in having the life you desire, or are you committed to having it?
• The first is safety. More than anything, brains need to survive. In order to live long enough to reproduce and pass brain improvements on to the next generation, brains cannot die too soon. That means your brain has naturally evolved to keep you safe—emotionally, physically, and mentally.