I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they
wouldn't have to go so fast.

we stopped rushing and found that with less haste, we had more speed, since rushing sets up a whole multitude of antagonistic vibrations.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

What if rather than focusing on how long something took, we focused on how far we went?

What if, rather than fighting our preprogrammed instinct to seek the easiest path, we could embrace it, even use it to our advantage? What if, instead of asking, “How can I tackle this really hard but essential project?,” we simply inverted the question and asked, “What if this essential project could be made easy?

In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up

What if the biggest thing keeping us from doing what matters is the false assumption that it has to take tremendous effort? What if, instead, we considered the possibility that the reason something feels hard is that we haven’t yet found the easier way to do it?

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

If you can remove the vector of fear, then hope will predominate, and your overall motivation level will be higher, which may move you above the Action Line — and you do the behavior.

I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.

Run Uphill Simple heuristic: If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term. If you have two choices to make, and they’re relatively equal choices, take the path more difficult and more painful in the short term.

If you’re not aware that you’re not supposed to be able do something, the barriers to doing it are dramatically lessened.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It’s only for those who signed up for the journey.