Book: Do Epic Shitby Ankur Warikoo

  • A year from now, you will wish you had started today.
  • But you can certainly be sure of regret, if you don’t start today. What is the single biggest thing you can do to help you towards professional success? People do not have to follow up, when you commit to doing something. That’s it.
  • You are what you do. Not what you say you’ll do.
  • Commitments are nothing if not backed up with actions.
  • Luck happens to those that make things happen.

  • Persistence isn’t a one-day miracle.

  • If you are unhappy with where you are in life right now, do not wait to find out what you should be doing.
  • Doing what is right never comes with reasons. Because the right thing is the ultimate reason.
  • The biggest roadblock to learning is ego! Your ego keeps you from asking questions to those younger than you. I must know everything! How could I be so naïve? It’s impossible that I can’t do it without asking them! Ego is a bubble. Instead of bursting it and seeing what all lies outside, we invest most of our energy protecting it. To know what you don’t know is power.
  • There is temporary discomfort in doing the unconventional. There is permanent discomfort in living life as a template.
  • An excuse is the distance between who you are and who you wish to be.
  • If your happiness depends on external validation, then your happiness depends on something you do not control.
  • Money can buy you stuff. But the biggest thing it buys is freedom. Including freedom from stuff.
  • ‘I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer.’ – Jim Carrey
  • Asking is the best thing to do, before making assumptions.
  • We don’t need more productivity hacks. We need to spend more time with ourselves doing what we want to do.
  • Thoughts are powerful, when they are converted into actions. Without action, they are simply broken promises.
  • Do not allow comfort to make you believe that you no longer need to try!
  • Our actions are driven by our feeling of what people feel about us! This begs the question, whose life are we living?
  • Emotional debt has killed more people than financial debt ever will.
  • Anyone can be calm when things are calm. Being calm despite the storm is a powerful skill. Just because someone carries it well doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy. Everyone carries a heavy load. Be kind to others.
  • Do not confuse calmness with a lack of fire. Calmness doesn’t mean lack of drive. It rather means having the power to turn that drive into actions. Calm people have the most fire, because they use their courage to do bold things. Instead of using up that fire to speak. The calm IS the fire. Because that is the fire that brings ideas to execution. Thoughts to action. And tangents to tangibles.
  • The best mental model for taking tough decisions in life?
  • Ask yourself, ‘What’s the worst thing that can happen?’ 2. Close your eyes and vividly imagine it happening. 3. Then ask, ‘Will I be okay – mentally, socially, financially, physically, emotionally?’
  • That thing that you still haven’t finished and you are mad at yourself for not doing so? It is simply because it is not a priority. You think you still have time.
  • If you are authentic, if you are truly yourself all the time – you don’t have any competition! No one can ever beat you at being you!
  • Merely knowing what you need to do is not enough for you to do it! Awareness is the start of the decision. Not the end of it. Step 1 is Awareness. Step 2 is Execution. Step 3 is Rinse and Repeat. You won’t go anywhere if you are aware but don’t do anything about it. You will go everywhere if you are aware and take actions from that awareness. You know. You act. You learn. You know better. And you continue.
  • Comparing yourself to others is the biggest waste of time. Everyone had different beginnings. Different temperaments of parents. Totally different interests and hobbies. Different ways parents perceived success. Different teachers who taught you to fit in. And you expect yourself to outsmart someone else.
  • If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
  • The hardest thing in the world is telling yourself that it’s not hard at all. It is not hard to wake up early.
  • It is not hard to make money. It is not hard to approach strangers. It is not hard to express love. It is not hard to send cold emails. It is not hard to ask for a raise. It is not hard to ask questions. It is not hard to voice your opinion.
  • If you are comfortable dancing in public without alcohol or drugs, you are at peace with who you are. If you feel high without being high, If you are intoxicated by joy instead of substances, If you love to express yourself without numbing your senses, You are at a place of untouchable joy and peace.
  • you do what everyone else will do, you will end up like everyone else.
  • Working out teaches you discipline and patience like few other things do. You can’t buy a fit body. You can’t get fit overnight. You can’t cheat to get to a fit body. You can’t ride on someone else to get a fit body. You can’t blame anybody for not being fit. Neither can you ask someone to get fit on your behalf.
  • It is only going to happen if you show up every day. And be patient.
  • Attitude » Experience » Education The hiring principle I have always followed.
  • Money buys freedom. Freedom is a privilege.
  • The right time to start investing was when you turned 18. The next best time is TODAY.
  • If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you. – Robert Kiyosaki
  • Financially smart people take loans even if they can afford, to save money. Financially weak people take loans knowing that they can’t afford, to spend money!
  • Hope these reflections of mine help you, as much as they help me as well: Would you be friends with your own self? Would you marry yourself? Would you be your own boss? What version of you would you rather not be? Why do you still continue being that version?
  • Think of all the wasted time spent being mad at someone.
  • Someone broke you into pieces. And now you have decided to trade your peace for seeking revenge. When we hold a grudge against someone, we do the same thing they did to us: hurt us. They hurt us once. We hurt ourselves 100x by repeating it in our head.
  • Your kindness might cause you pain, a sense of betrayal, heartburn. Be kind anyway. Not everyone is going to reciprocate your kindness. Some are even going to play with it. Some are not going to care. Some are not going to acknowledge it ever. Yet, kindness is always the right thing to do.
  • No one is useless.
  • Everyone knows something you don’t.
  • Run away from those who are trying to run away from themselves. Those who are not willing to heal themselves. Those who do not want to know their deeper parts. Those who are not okay and do nothing to change it. Those who do not want to have difficult conversations with themselves.
  • Respect doesn’t come from the title. It comes from conduct.
  • 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. . . . We all accept the love we think we deserve.
  • If you share because you are expecting something in return, it is not sharing. It is a transaction!