Do Epic Shit

Do Epic Shit

by Ankur Warikoo

1.The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.

2.Sit on as many chairs as you can before you find the one chair on which you feel you belong.

3.This book is not going to be a revelation. It is meant to be a reminder. A reminder of how life happens to all of us, in a similar yet unequal fashion.

4.Persistence isn’t a one-day miracle. It is a conscious choice translated

into habit.

5.It is better to be busy in the chase of finding yourself instead of being busy in the rat race and never know yourself.

6.It takes effort to find love.

It takes effort to feel fulfilled.

It takes effort to be fit.

It takes effort to be happy.

Which is why most of us do not have love, fulfilment, happiness or fitness in our life.

7.Who you spend time with will define the stories you hear.

The stories you hear will define the stories in your head.

The stories in your head will define you.

8.Emotional debt has killed more people than financial debt ever will.

9.In a world filled with people living their lives for someone else, a truly well-lived life, is the one where we stay true to our own selves.

10.Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results.

11.Ego is a bubble. Instead of bursting it and seeing what all lies outside, we invest most of our energy protecting it.

12.Only when you go against the flow will you find your own flow.

13.If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.

14.It is not the privilege that harms us. It is our lack of awareness of our own privilege that harms us.

15.Build a team so strong that someone from the outside doesn't know who the boss is!

16.People will help you only when you have helped them understand how they can.

17.We say yes more often just because we want people to feel good about us! We thus end up feeling worse because of these tiny betrayals.

18.Being yourself in a world that is chasing a

yo-yo-ed version of everyone else, is the ultimate reward.

19.Others’ success will

generate massive

self-doubt every

morning when you

get up.

Get up anyway.

20.When you pick mentors who are way beyond your level of expertise, you might miss out on a lot. The things that you seek are so obvious to them they won’t even realize you need an explanation!

21.Nothing beats the feeling of having done more in twenty-four hours than what the day expected you to!

22.There is temporary discomfort in doing the unconventional. There is permanent discomfort in living life as a template.

23.Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results. A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.

24.No one sees the multiple failures before that one ‘huge success’.

25.You are what you do. Not what you say you’ll do. We know ourselves through our thoughts.But we know others through their actions. That is true for others as well. They can’t read our thoughts. All they see is what we do.

26.Ninety-nine per cent of people want to be led. They want to be told what to do, and then they will go on to do their best. They want to be led. Not managed.

27.The key to having more opportunities in life is to give yourself enough opportunities to get curious.