Be useful: seven tools for life. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 2023.

If there is one unavoidable truth in this world, it’s that there is no substitute for putting in the work.

There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic pill that can get you around the hard work of doing your job well, of winning something you care about, or of making your dreams come true.

People have tried to cut corners and skip steps in this process for ad long as hard work has been hard.

Eventually, those people either fall behind or get left in our dust, because working your ass off is the only thing that works 100 percent of the time for 100 percent of the things worth achieving.