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Feelings are complicated. Actions are simple. #UsAgainstYou…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “A lot of relatively smart people end up with no specific talent, because they overanalyze every situation and always find a reason to give up quickly, when they should just put in the years of training without overthinking what they can or cannot do.” ~Orange Book The Core: “You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.” ~Herb Kelleher “Mantra; how they view me, is not an invitation, to see myself, through their lens.” ~Billy Chapata “By upsetting the timing of your opponent while you stay patient, you open up time for yourself, which is half the game.” ~Robert Greene “We rarely take out our anger on those who deserve it; we just take it out on whoever is standing closest.” ~Fredrik Backman, Us Against You “Just because I address something doesn’t mean I’m trying to argue. I like to talk things out ad I love clarity. We’re adults, so communicate.” ~Feyi Sayo “A wise person doesn’t seek validation from playing the game. A wise person recognizes when others are trying to make them the game and refuses to be played.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “In a world of complainers, short-term thinkers, and virality-starved fools, all it takes is a few years of repetition to outperform 99% of people at whatever thing you choose.” ~Justin Welsh “If you act in your own self-interest today, they call you selfish. If you act in your own self-interest for [the] next year, they call you generous. Same behavior. Different timeline.” ~Alex Hormozi “Marry the right person and you get decades of a loving family. Move to the right environment and you get decades of personal growth. Invest in the right asset and you get decades of peace of mind.” ~Orange Book “There is a role for discussion and communication in developing one’s knowledge. Sharing knowledge is a part of how you test it, seeing how much stronger your alloy really is after you’ve added some new information.” ~Farnum Street, The Great Mental Models Vol.2 “The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn’t about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about. It’s consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused / undisciplined to do. Get good at boring.” ~Mark Manson “If your job feels like a dead end, it might be because you’ve traded agency and responsibility for the feeling of security. But real security lies in creating value. Creating value isn’t easy, but it’s resilient and generous and often profitable. ‘How do I create more value?’ is a much more useful question than, ‘how do I find a better job?’” ~Seth Godin, Create Value “I’d define intelligence vs. smart like this: Intelligent people understand technical details, smart people understand emotional details. Or maybe: Intelligence: Good memory, logic, math skills, test-taking ability, rule-following. Smart: High degree of empathy, bullshit detection, organization, communication skills, persuasion, social awareness, understanding the consequences of your actions. Both are important. But there’s a critical difference in how each is valued.” ~Morgan Housel, Intelligent vs. Smart Last Set: “When you read biographies of people who’ve done great work, it’s remarkable how much luck is involved. They discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting, or by reading a book they happen to pick up. So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions.” ~Paul Graham, on how to make yourself a big target for luck Food For Thought: “You’re nervous because you’re underprepared. Work so much that doing whatever you’re worried about is boring. Then you’ll respond the same way when people ask you ‘how do you not have nerves?’ —> because this ain’t my first time.” ~Alex Hormozi Food For Thought II: “Furthermore, most of us appreciate that to only learn from others, or to only credit that which is gained from direct experience would be both functionally useless. A scenario in which you could only learn from one or the other would not produce the alloy we call knowledge. Theoretical learning cannot prepare you to understand all the nuances of your particular life, such as your partner or the dynamics of your team. And if you relied solely on your own experiences to learn, you would be condemned to repeat the mistakes of others, which is extremely ineffective. Theory and experience together create knowledge, and both serve to augment and advance the capabilities of the other. Experience can trigger the updating of theory, and the validation or application of theory can trigger new experiences.” ~Farnum Street, The Great Mental Models Vol.2
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