Gary’s Inspirations (People)

1. Take responsibility to push the boundaries; we live in a world whose culture is shaped and reshaped by individuals who dared to disrupt norms. 2. Be a kingmaker; be someone who can provide so much value that the next kings have to come to you for advice and validation. 3. Develop a reputation of ironclad integrity; it's a huge competitive advantage to be trustworthy in cut-throat industries.

1. Shoot higher and higher, no matter how high you get, and train every day like you've still got something to prove; there is nothing more fulfilling than realizing your full potential. 2. Bring good vibes everywhere you go; your energy is contagious and can help transform the world. 3. Treat those who care for you like they are royalty; you are nothing if not for the contributions of the people in your life and so many more whose names you will never know.

1. Make sure to have fun on your quest to save the world; 2. Gather great people to join you; 3. Reason from first principles;

1. Do it your way; you don't need to be able to read music to make a masterpiece. 2. Mix it up and make it your own; synthesize what you love across genres into your own groove. 3. Create things with your brothers in soul; the greatest works of art come from collaboration and experimentation.

1. Be stubborn on vision, flexible on details.

1. Be true to who you are and what you believe in even if it brings you haters; if you're right, believe that the truth will eventually prevail. 2. Don't conform your life's work to "the norm" just because others are afraid to deviate; if your work provides value to people, you will be rewarded. 3. Use your platform to unite, inform, entertain, clarify, and inspire; it's crucial that those with influence drown out the noise and help people become better versions of themselves.

1. Optimize your pedagogy for clarity and shared understanding; 2. 3.

1. Have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you; you are a terminal for a higher power. 2. Travel early and often in your life; you can't know if you don't go. 3. Do it because you love it, not because of the payoff; when you follow the groove, the money always follows.

1. Stay cool under immense pressure and don't act impulsively; your ability to regulate your emotions can make or break you. 2. Befriend your opponents and leverage their collective strengths; you are only so wise and capable on your own. 3. Be willing to be misunderstood by society today for the sake of building a better tomorrow for everyone; your ego should not get in the way of your work for the greater good.

→ Be like water.

1. Love intentionally; Love is your decision because if love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. 2. Become authentic to become more human; the ability to act spontaneously and to express what one genuinely feels and thinks is at the root of confidence and strength. 3. Don't apologize to the haters for being yourself; you owe nobody an explanation as long as your acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

1. Find your purpose; he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. 2. Build a life in which you are a free agent; he who do not have most of his day for himself is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. 3. Learn how to think for yourself; minds which are prevented from changing their opinions cease to be mind.

1. Appreciate the complexity of reality; “all things” in the world are rhizomes, or rhizomatically interconnected, even though such connections are not always. 2. Concept creation is power; a concept is a brick that can be used to build a courthouse of reason or to be thrown through the window. 3. Express something meaningful; the problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.

1. Take responsibility for helping define what humanity is; in fashioning yourself you fashion man. 2. Design your own life; we have to make ourselves, and in so doing we alone are responsible for the essence we create. 3. Learn to be in solitude; if you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

1. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small; a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

1. Let your passion move you into the unknowable future; life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 2. Protect and cultivate your spiritual identity; no loss occurs more quietly in the world than the losing of the spiritual self. 3. Apply labels with care; labels are unavoidable but in a way negate people by inadvertently reducing their complex humanity to limited

1. Understand and improve machines; you are a machine full of machines in a world composed of machines. 2. Make yourself 1% better every day; just as investments compound over time, so do our daily actions. 3. Do things that suck; having the discipline to expand your comfort zone is instrumental to success.

1. Keep things interesting by keeping a diverse group of close friends; you learn the most from people with different ways of seeing the world. 2. Stretch yourself; your personal transformation depends on your willingness to regularly do hard things. 3. When things don't feel right, don't be afraid to switch it up; what got you here won't necessarily get you there.

1. Find what you love and pursue it wholeheartedly; you have to be obsessed to make a huge impact in the world. 2. Put yourself out there; you never know who you will meet that can help you on your hero's journey. 3. Transcend boundaries; life is so much more interesting when you mix and mash different careers, philosophies, passions, disciplines, friends, and more.

1. Work your ass off but also party better than everyone else when it comes time to let loose. 2. Don't be afraid to dream big. Whether you think you can or can't do something, you're right. 3. Treat your body like a temple; it's the main vehicle in your control to do big things in the world.

1. Stay relevant by teaching yourself the state of the art; assume that countless people are dying to eat your lunch. 2. Make sacrifices to give your children a better life; there is no better payoff for your efforts than seeing them thrive. 3. Do what you love everyday; life is too short to not be excited to wake up every morning.

1. Transform yourself to transform the world; the world needs more people committed to humanity's next evolutionary leap. 2. Train conscious, capable, civically minded leaders; they will help you grow a global mycelial network that might just change the world. 3. Cultivate spiritual strength; it will give you a sense of place and purpose, and makes you far more resilient in a time that demands leaders who can access intuition and insight.

1. Commit for the long-run; success is based on long-term thinking, faith, discipline, attitude, and a few stepping stones along the way. 2. Believe in creative emergence; great ideas reveal themselves spontaneously along the explorative journey. 3. Don't take yourself too seriously; it's important to have fun even as you strive to reach difficult goals and make your difference.

1. Find a way; keep knocking down walls until they say "yes." 2. Stay in the know; you can't seize the opportunities you aren't aware of. 3. Create, provide, and exchange value; people have things you want, and you have or can create things that people want.

1. Be willing to isolate yourself for the sake of your development; distractions are the enemy of achieving massive success. 2. Learn both widely and deeply; exposing yourself to and understanding the most important topics and trends are critical to making an impact in the world. 3. Choose your friends wisely; the company you keep has an outsized effect on your growth and trajectory.

1. Don't be afraid to enjoy life; if you can travel and make every day feel like a vacation, do it. 2. Feed your curiosity; the future belongs to those who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke it, question it, and turn it inside out. 3. Make a habit of writing; the practice makes you more human.

1. Develop useful skills; an investment in yourself pays the best interest; 2. Take care of your family; love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 3. Lead by example; people imitate their leaders, so step up and proactively do the hard things.

1. Treat your loved ones like they are the world; their happiness and success magnifies yours. 2. Take care of your body; good health is requisite for success. 3. Persevere in the face of hardship; the odds may be stacked against you, but you will always have control over one thing: your effort.

1. Be a perfectionist when it comes to navigating social situations; you won't fear even the more complex environments as deliberate practice improves your intuition. 2. Author the story of your life so others don't write it for you; you can totally transform yourself if you carefully plan out that transformation. 3. Take time to enjoy the beauty of nature and great art; they fuel and enrich the soul.