I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time. Robert Greene More Quotes by Robert Greene More Quotes From Robert Greene I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise. Robert Greene exercise interesting thinking Everything is personal. Robert Greene It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong. Robert Greene different path people Expand your notion of what adversity is. Robert Greene notion adversity A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it doesn't connect to you, you're not able to put in that 10,000 hours that people talk about. You don't have the focus. And you start off in life on the wrong foot and you never get back. Robert Greene college feet people I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing. Robert Greene sports drama thinking There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world. Robert Greene adversity running people If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it. Robert Greene long mean commitment I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art. Robert Greene example people art I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do. Robert Greene things-in-life who-i-am should I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority. Robert Greene priorities exercise years The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific. Robert Greene training jobs way Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me. Robert Greene new-york writing book If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much. Robert Greene information too-much want Your college education is a key moment in life. Robert Greene moments keys college I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money. Robert Greene first-love want writing I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit. Robert Greene unhappy writing thinking I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things. Robert Greene literature want thinking I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people. Robert Greene giving people world It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc. Robert Greene different-ideas be-kind trying
