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“I once asked God ‘Why are you taking me through troubled waters?’ He replied, ‘Because your enemies can’t swim!’”…28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.” ~Rick and Morty The Core: “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.” ~Ryan Holiday “A good leader has to be more willing to be betrayed than to never trust again.” ~Alex Hormozi “Be the type of person who reaches out to others…when you don’t need something.” ~Codie Sanchez “It’s remarkable how often the real problem is not what happened, but how it was communicated.” ~James Clear “Tact is not the quality by which you often please, but by which you seldom offend.” ~Alice Wellington Rollins “A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ~General George S. Patton “New entrepreneurs spend so much time trying to make their offer scalable, they forget to make it valuable.” ~Alex Hormozi “Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.” ~Robert Greene “Relationships need love, but they don’t stay alive on love alone. Choices keep them alive; choosing loyalty, faithfulness, sacrifice, commitment, etc., keeps relationships alive. Even choosing to love when you don’t feel like loving.” ~Pierre Jeanty “Good companies quite often harness inflections. It provides the force multiplier that allows the startup to show up out of left field and not compete by being better, but by changing the subject.” ~Mike Maples Jr., Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers on Capital Allocators by Ted Seides “Everyone is trying to learn from the most successful people, but you can also learn so much from people who aren’t happy with their current lives, just listen carefully to their advice, pay attention to how they think, then make sure you aren’t walking in the same direction too.” ~Orange Book “Whatever your work is, keep doing it. Through your doubt, through your not-enough, keep putting it out there. Your purpose, your art, will land in the hearts it’s meant to. You won’t be for everyone, but you are for someone. And to that someone, what you have to give matters, and that changes everything.” ~Tim Karsliyev “In this day and age the case can be made that we live in an era of too much. Too much information, too much stuff, too many choices, and too many distractions. As a result, there is a good chance that the path to happier lives, and yes, better portfolio performance, might start by taking things away.” ~Ted Lamade, Take Something Away Last Set: “So much of life isn’t about intelligence or luck but putting yourself in a position for success. The cash-rich investor thrives in crashes. The well-rested athlete outperforms the exhausted star. The student who studies daily aces the pop quiz. The employee who leaves early gets to the meeting with the CEO on time while the other person sits in the unanticipated traffic. All seem lucky, but they’ve positioned themselves to succeed. Master your circumstances before they master you.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food #595 Food For Thought: “Whether it applies to training wheels or skin medication, this begs the question — why are we so inclined to add things rather than take them away when searching for solutions? The answer is simple — human nature and incentives. The fact is, people are biased towards solving problems through addition rather than subtraction. The reason? Because adding something makes you feel like you are advancing, while taking something away makes you feel like you are retreating. Couple this with the fact that most companies are incentivized to sell us endless ‘solutions’, and it should come as no surprise that the desire take something away is practically non-existent.” ~Ted Lamade, Take Something Away
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