Taking it all in. We’ll worry about tomorrow tomorrow. *Note* Markets are efficient in outcome, not speed…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JF, KO, PR, KT, TH, SC*

The Warm-Up: 

“When you arrive in a new space, know that the moments before this moment prepared you. You are worthy. Do not shrink, hide, dilute, or apologize for your presence. Your voice is needed in that space. Be all that you are.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

The Core: 

“The best teacher is self-reflection.” ~Shane Parrish

“The goal of reading is application, not memorization.” ~Alex and Books

“The day you stop caring about being disliked is the day you start growing.” ~Orange Book

“It’s better to have an Ivy League degree than an Ivy League education.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Give thanks. That was your pre-season. It prepared you for this season. You’re not late. You’re ready.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Reading books = Consumption. Reflecting on books = Contemplation. Reacting to books = Capitalization.” ~Alex and Books

“Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.” ~Henri Matisse (@_nitch)

“School is where you send your children to be raised by other children so that they reach the lowest common denominator of culture.” ~Alan Watts

“Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play. You have played enough.” ~Rumi

“For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” ~Psalms 75:6-7

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.” ~Anais Nin (@_nitch)

“I’m already loved / I’m already chosen / I know who I am / I know what You’ve spoken / I’m already loved / More than I could imagine / And that is enough, oh / I’m already loved / I’m already chosen / I know who I am…” ~Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music, Jireh

“We’ll go day-to-day, but anything is possible, right?... Anything is possible. So, it goes back to that whole theory of: The difference between player A and player Z is an opportunity and reps. That’s what this league is. That’s professional sports. That’s why they come out of nowhere. Someone gets an opportunity. And what Mike [White] does with his opportunity — he’s got the world in front of him, he’s just got to take advantage of it.” ~Jets Coach Robert Saleh, after the Jets 34-31, come-from-behind win over the Bengals last week

“Believing someone has the right to be more successful than you is self-sedition. You abandoning you. It’s our duty to fight for the best version of our ideas. Our full vision. Our duty to win too. Until we do, it’s likely we will be consistently underestimated. That’s ok though…There is an advantage in being the one people don’t see full potential in. you have the ability to be creative in that space. A lot of ‘winners’ cant innovate. They get tight and only want to protect what already exists. Being underestimated pushes you to find what’s next. That’s where the game is won. In the work. While they are busy keeping the status quo we’re building in [the] dark and where the opportunity is. Just keep perspective that we can achieve the same type of mega success we witness. That success is ours too.” ~Ryan Wilson

Last Set: 

“No muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without consequence, change without aesthetics, age without values, life without effort, water without thirst, food without nourishment, love without sacrifice, power without fairness, facts without rigor, statistics without logic, mathematics without proof, teaching without experience, politeness without warmth, values without embodiment, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, friendship without investment, virtue without risk, probability without ergodicity, wealth without exposure, complication without depth, fluency without content, decision without asymmetry, science without skepticism, religion without tolerance, and, most of all: nothing without skin in the game. ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Food For Thought:

“Don’t get frustrated. If nothing bad is happening to you now, wait a bit and it will. That is just reality. My approach to life is that it is what it is and the important thing is for me to figure out what to do about it and not spend time moaning about how I wish it were different. Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, ‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ You will come to enjoy this process of careening between success and failure because it will determine your trajectory. It makes no sense to get frustrated when there’s so much that you can do, and when life offers so many things to savor. Your path through any problem is outlined in these principles—and in others you’ll discover yourself. There’s nothing you can’t accomplish if you think creatively and have the character to do the difficult things. #principleoftheday” ~Ray Dalio

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