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Good to Great...28all. Eya. *JW* The Warm-Up: “Obviously, there are people next to you and they’re going to push you, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t focus on the barriers in front of you…That was my focus, trying to be as efficient as I could over my 10 hurdles and trying to lower that time every time.” ~Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, after once again breaking her own world record, running the 400-meter hurdles in 50.37 seconds Thursday night to defend her Olympic title. The Core: “Social approval is the enemy of clear thinking.” ~Naval Ravikant “Some lessons you only learn, when you finally tell ego to lower its voice.” ~Billy Chapata “You’re not rewarded for hard work. You’re rewarded for being hard to replace.” ~Dave Kline “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.” ~John Templeton “The price of success is paid in private. Visible triumphs are built on invisible work.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food #588 “Can you imagine the league wide identity crisis we would have had if Jokic eliminated an entire team of NBA’s best???” ~@livmoods “Mediocre intelligence + curiosity + showing up every day will outperform most people who are 10x ‘smarter’ than you.” ~Justin Welsh “None of them is winning. When I come off the turn, they will be depressed.” ~Noah Lyles [ahead of his 200mn race]. *Note* This did not age well. “They’ll call you a late bloomer, not realizing that you sat for many years in the seat of self-mastery before you took your place in the world.” ~Nika Sole “The best opportunities of your life come unexpectedly, and whether you seize them or not is more a matter of courage rather than intelligence.” ~Orange Book “You cant complain about your results in life when you focus on trends, football teams, celebrities, politicians. These things are just a mental escape. Not real escape from a bad life.” ~@game0fpower “I have Asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, anxiety, and Depression. But I will tell you what you have does not define what you can become. Why Not You!” ~Noah Lyles on X after his 100m Gold Medal at the Olympics “Boredom is a filter. Common ideas come before it. Uncommon ideas come after it. Sit with a project long enough to get bored with it, then sit a little more. The most useful insights bubble up after you get bored.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1 “The best kind of people are the ones you attract by authentically being you, the ones you don’t have to fake chemistry with or force a connection to find, the ones that make interactions taste sweet and feel like silk, the ones who find value in you simply being yourself.” ~Billy Chapata “I just told myself, ‘Don’t be soft. You’ve gotta go with it. You’re going to regret this for the rest of your life if you don’t go with it’ I’m so glad I told myself that. I was like ‘I’m going to hate myself if I don’t close this immediately, because those guys won’t give you an inch if you give it to them.’” ~Cole Hocker, after 3:27.65 victory in 1500m Olympic final Last Set: “No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.” ~Mohamad Safa Food For Thought: “Most people are interested. Few are truly committed. Interested people act when it’s convenient; committed people act no matter what. Interested people do the minimum; committed people push beyond limits. Interested people wait to be told; committed people take the initiative. Fully committing is the key to accomplishment.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food #588 Food For Thought II: “You can be grateful for your childhood and also not need to bring anyone from it to your present. Gratitude doesn’t mean servitude.” ~Alex Hormozi
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