Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina

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Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement... read more

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Memorable Quotes

“Genuine personal growth is honest growth”
“Whenever you're faced with a part of reality you don't like, and you feel powerless to change it, the first step is to accept the truth of your situation”
“The more you expose yourself to mainstream media such as television, the more skewed your mental model of reality becomes”
“The decision to connect is the essence of love”
“People who are too different from you are difficult to bond with, and those who are too similar can't teach you very much”
“Both individuals simply want to connect with each other for the purpose of learning and growing”
“When you're really hungry, will you wait patiently for food to arrive, or will you get up and make something to eat”
“When your intentions are important to you, direct action becomes part of the manifestation process”
“don't trap yourself in a cage of false security”
“If you're living the adjective, you're living the noun”
“Intelligence is the highest form of human expression”
“It is only through the deliberate exercise of intelligence that we give our lives meaning, a meaning that is consciously chosen”
“If you forget everything else from this book and remember only one piece of advice, it is simply this: The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow”
“the most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow”
“Use your mind's predictive powers to imagine what long-term, cumulative effect each one will have if you maintain it for the rest of your life”
“Bringing truth to your habits is an important step, but nothing will change if you don't take action”
“Facing a significant short-term challenge today is vastly superior to decades of regret”
“If you wish to improve upon those results, you must do whatever it takes to change your habits now, even if you expect the process to be brutally difficult”