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Po Bronson (born March 14, 1964) is an American journalist and author who lives in San Francisco.

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It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

Choice, Choices, Hold, Surprise, Surprise Me, Surprises

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don’t end up being someone you don’t want to be.

Alignment, Bring, Goal, Important, Want

The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

Choices, Differences, Discipline, Gain, Matters, Times

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

Awe Inspiring, Bliss, Has Beens, Known, Love

A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.

Care, Long, People, Tennis, Turning, Weekend

Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.

Children, Kids, Media, Obesity, Period, Use

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

Children, Discipline, Key, Keys, Parents, Reaction

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

Book, Books, Classroom, Hardest, Horizon

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

Book, Character, Characters, Compelling, Reader, Reading

We've all lost something along the way.

Loss, Lost, Struggle, Way

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.

Curiosity, Follow, Psych, Raw, Tangled

I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our best even if one of us wins and one of us loses. The virtue of competition is that we both get better, not that one does. And that means we have great respect for the opponents, whether we win or whether we lose.

Competition, Loses, Mean, Push, Winning, Wins

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Chorus, Inspiring, Nothing, Positive, Spiritual, Voice

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Dangerous, Hard, Inspirational, Life, Money, Successful

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.

Book, Grateful, Thinking, Six, Undivided, Gift

There was a culture that came out of the self-esteem movement which was don't anybody keep track of the goals. The kids keep track, but nobody keep track of the goals because we don't want the kids to have the experience of losing. And in depriving them losing, thinking it scarred them to lose, we made losing so taboo, so unspeakable, that we instead made losing more scary to kids, not less scary.

Experience, Instead, Kids, Scary, Thinking, Track

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

Calculated, Choices, Good, Judging, Odds, Risk

Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don’t be a talker.

Book, People, Prove, Talk, Writing

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

Allow, Giving Up, Goal, Likely, Path, Paths

The important thing to know about playing to win and playing not to lose is that there are actually different neural networks that are being used. It's not very easy to do both at the same time and, if you are trying to have a playing to win mentality, you're going for it, there's some things that trip you up or trigger the wrong neural network. If you start worrying about your mistakes all of a sudden, if you get too focused on the facts and the details, these are going to shift your neural networks and sort of screw up your strategy.

Mistake, Mistakes, Networks, Sort, Winning, Worry

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