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You burn out when you spend too much time with people who don't want to help themselves. Reserve your Mamba mentality for your own goals and for those who share your ambition.

There's a difference between ego and pride. Pride is caring about your last name and your legacy. Ego is about vanity and being right.

We all have an ego, and the biggest competitors have massive egos. The key isn't hiding it. It's knowing how and when to put your ego to use.

How hard of a life have you lived?

Recognize that the harder a life a person has led, the more they can handle adversity. Look for these people because they don't make excuses and have a different level of resiliency.

Blue Ocean Strategy. It's number one on my list of my Top 5 Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs.

Make reading a life-long habit. Start with the five books listed above. If you stop reading, you stop learning. And if you stop learning, you'll be out of business before long.

Enemies. They force you to raise your game to avoid the rejection and humiliation that happens when you prove your enemies right.

If you want a big life, you have to be mentally and emotionally prepared for humiliation. This is why, instead of running away from enemies, you learn to seek them out.