The Big Idea: If you have to go on vacation from what you do, don’t ever come back.
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The Amish work almost every day but don’t feel the need for a vacation.
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The Amish have 1/5 the depression of non-Amish.
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The Amish integrate work and life.
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Never permit a dichotomy to ruin your life. A dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. — Picasso
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If you have to go on vacation from what do, don’t ever come back. —Joel Salatin
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Wiser to do what you like, not what you love.
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Don’t marry someone you love/lust, marry someone you genuinely like. That love/lust will fade. — Joel Salatin
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You can only build upon strength, not weakness.
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Richard Branson takes naps throughout the day, to separate spurts of intense work.
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Extreme success has a luck component, but it usually involves luck in meeting a key person, not a lucky event.
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Warren Buffett still tap dances to work in his 80’s.
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You can have a job but avoid at all costs becoming a salary slave.
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Fact: making more money will make you happier. But (after financial independence) only by a little bit and sometimes not worth the cost. Therefore don’t chase the money.
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Enough money can give you independence. Too much money will separate you from other people.
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The opportunistic mentality (chasing the opportunity) is almost as dangerous as the vacation mentality (living for the weekend/vacation).
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If Jordan pursued what he loved, he would have pursued baseball.
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In love, pursue oxytocin, not dopamine. — Helen Fisher
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Sources: Guns Germs Steel, Michael Jordan The Life, Top Dog.
Tai Lopez is an entrepreneur, investor, and blogger who runs an awesome online book club. 67 Steps is a lecture series teaching how to be successful in health, wealth, love, and happiness. I’m a big fan.