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You know how we do. Stop worrying and let us fly. #RichPaul…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *JV* The Warm-Up: “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” ~James Baldwin (@__nitch) The Core: “Hard books, hard workouts, hard decisions, hard competition, hard conversations, hard problems, that’s actually how you get an easy life.” ~Orange Book “You must always be willing to adjust for new information, but be knowledgeable enough to be selective about what you let in.” ~Farnum Street, The Great Mental Models Vol. 2 “When people reveal themselves, it’s a gift. Now you know what you’re dealing with. Don’t pretend you didn’t hear it. Don’t ignore or try to explain away what you saw. It is what it is.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Don’t call me ‘strong’ if you really mean ‘someone who can do it all alone.’ – call me strong because I’m willing to humble myself, risk rejection, and ask for what I need. Call me strong because I’d rather ask for help than struggle alone.” ~Michell C. Clark “If you want to change the trajectory of your child’s life, expose them to things greater than they see in their own circle…and do it regularly. Let them see that money and success are not rare. That greatness can really come from anywhere. Show them.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Some guys listen; some don’t. I have clients who would be a hundred million dollars richer if they had only changed their approach. Every day you wake up and bring yourself to the world in an undisciplined and thoughtless way is a day you put yourself closer to failure than success.” ~Rich Paul, Lucky Me “Experience doesn’t become learning without reflection, and reflection is an energy expenditure. If we want to develop our thinking and get the most out of our environments, then we have to be aware of the natural tendency to minimize energy output and correct for it where doing so creates value.” ~Farnum Street, The Great Mental Models Vol. 2 Last Set: “I don’t want to spend my whole life proving my worth to other people, because if that’s my focus, when do I get to live? When do I get to just exist, in the fullness of who I already am? Life is way too short to care more about approval than peace.” ~Michell C. Clark Food For Thought: “ ‘What would Jesus do?’…we ask sincerely….Well, for starters, he embraced a life of hiddenness….With his life (and with ours), it is critical that we not mistake unseen for unimportant….From God’s perspective, anonymous seasons are sacred spaces. They are quite literally formative; to be rested in, not rushed through—and most definitely never to be regretted….Hidden years are the surprising birthplace of true spiritual greatness.” ~Alicia Britt Chole, Anonymous – Jesus’ hidden years…and yours Food For Thought II: “If you have a lot of curiosity and you’re a hard worker and you have moderately decent judgment and intelligence and clarity of thought and those things, you’ll go a long, long way because that’s how you get the compounding over time. People usually rise to their level of complacency. And that’s pretty generally true, and that doesn’t matter whether it’s investing or at a big company or whatever…If your dream is to make it to manager and you’re perfectly fine there, that’s pretty much where you’re going to stop. And that doesn’t mean the opposite is true. That doesn’t mean if you got 10,000 people who all want to be CEO or whatever that they’re all going to achieve it, but people create their own limiting factors. You hear that in sports, you hear that in business and so forth. I think people don’t appreciate that enough.” ~Todd Combs - Investing, the Last Liberal Art, Art of Investing Blog Post:
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