"Contradicting Common Success Myths: By definition, to be more successful than everybody else, you need to do what everybody else does not do. Here's a harsh truth for you. When it comes to success, the productivity hacks, the morning routines, most of this shit doesn't matter."

"Visionaries and Success: Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs because he believed a full decade before anybody else that one day a computer would sit on every desk and be in every office in the entire world. And he was correct about it. Warren Buffett is Warren Buffett because consistently, he has identified companies that were extremely valuable that most other people thought sucked."

"Power of Patience in Investing: And then he bought them. And then he sat around eating fucking McDonald's and drinking Coca Cola and waited a few decades, which by the way is another thing most people are not willing to do, and now he's the greatest investor of all time."

"Embracing Contrarian Ideas: It's the willingness to question widely held assumptions. It's the ability to look at alternatives or opportunities that most people can't be bothered with. It's the ability to adopt unpopular beliefs and then stick to them when people start making fun of you."

"Contrarian Success Ideas: 90% of the results really came down to 2, maybe 3 correct contrarian ideas I had at the right time."

"Warren Buffett's Key to Success": "In the 58 years of Berkshire Management, most of my capital allocation decisions have been no better than so so. Our results have been the product of about a dozen truly good decisions."

"The Illusion of Expertise: As a successful person, there's a temptation to believe that you know what you're doing much more than you actually do. It's not intuitive that one simple decision can have such an outsized impact on a person's career. So you start convincing yourself that, yeah, I do know the secret to getting up early and working hard in the gym, or I do know how to run meetings better than everybody else, when actually, you're probably slightly above average."

"Understanding Digital Marketing Success: You have to understand that when you go from an incorrect contrarian to a correct contrarian, it kind of fucks with everybody's heads. Extreme success is only meaningful if the thing that you are correctly contrarian about is also meaningful."

"The Irony of Extreme Success": "And ironically, extreme success only improves the relationships that didn't need to be improved in the first place."

"The Risk of Contrarian Beliefs": "The truth is that most contrarian beliefs are contrarian for a very good reason, because they're fucking wrong."

"The Reality of Extreme Success": "Extreme success is not gonna make you happy. In fact, success amplifies who you already are and how you already feel."

"Pursuing Success Authentically: Ultimately, extreme success should not be the point. You should be motivated to pursue your correct contrarian idea because it's so important you can't imagine doing otherwise."