Matthew McConaughey

What's better?

Take eight big risks in life, sin once, miss the mark once, but get seven, achieve seven, seven out of eight, or take 100 risks and achieve eight of them.

My hunch is that if there's a God, he's saying, go for the 100 and get eight rather than eight and get seven.

If you're not taking enough risks to sin or miss the mark, to fail,

What are you doing?

Don't go back with even money.

Go back with the safe bets.

You cannot afford not to.

We have to define success for ourselves.

And then we have to put in the work to maintain it.

Take that daily tally, tend our garden, keep the things that are important to us in good shape.

No, no, no.

Don't study the result.

What was the person doing when they got there?

And everybody who's achieved something great was some sort of outlaw.

Some sort of hustler.

Out of balance, out of whack, dark times.

Still wakes up in the middle of the night and glad they're wearing a mouth guard because they'd have chipped all their teeth to that nightmare they were having about those things they did back then.

I'm one of those.

Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.