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Peter Diamandis’ Laws to Help You Develop a Persistent and Passionate Life

The founder of the XPrize Foundation, Singularity University and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation shares the laws that can help anyone succeed — Part 1

Wang Yip
8 min readMay 12, 2021
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I came across Peter Diamandis’ profile after reading about him in Tim Ferriss’ Tools of Titans. I had heard of Peter before — he’s the founder of the XPrize and Singularity University and known for his work to get people into space. What I did not know was that Peter had written 28 laws for uncommon and persistent people. I’ll cover the first 10 here, and then the subsequent 18 laws in two other articles.

I want to share what these 10 laws mean to me and how I am incorporating them into my life.

The first 10 laws:

  1. If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy!
  2. When given a choice… take both!!
  3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes
  4. Start at the top then work your way up
  5. Do it by the book... but be the author!
  6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
  7. If you can’t win, change the rules
  8. If you can’t change the…

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Wang Yip
Wang Yip

Written by Wang Yip

Author of Essential Habits. I write about personal development, work and managing your career. Connect with me at www.wangyip.ca

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