The Big Idea: If you have to go on vacation from what you do, don’t ever come back.

• The Amish work almost every day but don’t feel the need for a vacation.
• The Amish have 1/5 the depression of non-Amish.
• The Amish integrate work and life.
• Never permit a dichotomy to ruin your life.  A dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time.  — Picasso
• If you have to go on vacation from what do, don’t ever come back. —Joel Salatin
• Wiser to do what you like, not what you love.
• Don’t marry someone you love/lust, marry someone you genuinely like.  That love/lust will fade. — Joel Salatin
• You can only build upon strength, not weakness.
• Richard Branson takes naps throughout the day, to separate spurts of intense work.
• Extreme success has a luck component, but it usually involves luck in meeting a key person, not a lucky event.
• Warren Buffett still tap dances to work in his 80’s.
• You can have a job but avoid at all costs becoming a salary slave.
• Fact: making more money will make you happier.  But (after financial independence) only by a little bit and sometimes not worth the cost.  Therefore don’t chase the money.
• Enough money can give you independence.  Too much money will separate you from other people.
• The opportunistic mentality (chasing the opportunity) is almost as dangerous as the vacation mentality (living for the weekend/vacation).
• If Jordan pursued what he loved, he would have pursued baseball.
• In love, pursue oxytocin, not dopamine. — Helen Fisher
• Sources: Guns Germs Steel, Michael Jordan The Life, Top Dog.

Tai Lopez is an entrepreneur, investor, and blogger who runs an awesome online book club. 67 Steps is a lecture series teaching how to be successful in health, wealth, love, and happiness.  I’m a big fan.