Dr. Trevor Kashey

Any reasonable goal reduces to skills you can practice that, when mastered, achieve the goal as a side effect.

I saw some well-intentioned advice suggesting you be the person you needed when you were younger. Just be the person you need now.

Detailed solutions organize thoughts and enhance understanding. Doing too many steps mentally results in more preventable mistakes.

Seldom does casual interest satisfy demands for precise and ready knowledge.

If you want to severely handicap your learning then follow the rule "if the book is boring, put it down"

If you hang out in a barbershop long enough, you get a haircut. The disciplined person only goes to the barber shop when they are in need of a trim.

Structure your situation so that useful behavior has a higher probability and impulsive behavior has a lower probability.

Those who undervalue what they do rarely rise to the greatest heights of it.

Pick skills you can learn fast, use often, and get you closer to what you want.

If you don't do a good job playing with others, make sure you do a good job playing with yourself.

I won't say there's anything terribly special about waking up early, but I will say there's something special about long blocks of uninterrupted sleep followed by long blocks of uninterrupted work.

It feels bad to get left out because you are weird. But then you realize you can use that time and space to get ahead. But then, when you get ahead, if feels bad to have those people try to get a piece of all you've built. Create good relationships. It depends on you.

This world now caters to the indolent and castrates the capable.

Making things less wrong takes a lot of effort.

Writing for a living does not come by fits and starts, but as an act of discipline, repeated for many hours each day.

If somebody understands what you say, they have a higher chance of responding how you want.

You may tell yourself "Nobody cares, work harder." But, I care that you work hard. Keep going.

Responsibility --> Response Ability

Today's laziness from yesterday's instant gratification Today's anxiety from yesterday's procrastination Today's frustration from yesterday's neglect Today's belief from yesterday's indoctrination

Experience works better than lectures or advice. This happens in part because lectures and advice only provide partial descriptions of the experiences they substitute for. But, good partial descriptions shrink the amount of experience it takes to become effective. Use both.