My secret: Keep my mouth shut and work in silence. They will know about it soon #anonymous…Walk good. 28all. Eya.

The Warm-Up: 

“The biggest lessons I have learned over the last 5 years working on content: 1) Consistency is rare. 2) Authenticity wins. 3) Effort is an advantage. 4) Haters are future fans. 5) Results take care of themselves…Wishing everyone a prosperous 2022. Let’s get after it relentlessly.” ~Anthony Pompliano

The Core: 

“Great conversations fill you up with energy, ambition, desire to challenge yourself.” ~Orange Book

“Humility may seem to be the lower position, but it’s the position that will take you higher.” ~Pierre Alex Jeanty

“Stay away from people who don’t know how to apologize when they are in the wrong, you are not responsible for their education.” ~Orange Book

“No matter what you do for work, so much of your success will come from a simple mantra: Master the basics and show up consistently.” ~David Perell

“If you desire to be effective and efficient, start with saying no. Nothing is more effective than saying no to things that don’t matter. Nothing is more efficient than doing this quickly.” ~Shane Parrish

“Do less but do better. Any energy that goes into what doesn’t matter comes at the expense of what does. With a little extra time, you can raise the standard from good enough to great. Narrow the focus. Raise the standard. And set yourself apart.” ~Shane Parrish

“The best New Year’s resolution I ever made was to start devouring all my nicest things, and save no small pleasure for an unspecified future. Now I burn the good candles, wear the expensive perfume at home, scribble imperfectly in pretty notebooks. You can’t pin joy like a moth.” ~Holly Cassell

“Social media is powerful. Used intentionally, it enables meaningful human connections, rather than detracting from them. It creates more opportunities for conversations and enables new ideas to take hold (which may explain why some people don’t get it).” ~J. Kelly Hoey, Build Your Dream Network

“Owning equity in a company basically means you own the upside. When you own debt, you own guaranteed revenue streams, and you own the downside. You want to own equity. If you don’t own equity in a business, your odds of making money are very slim.” ~Naval Ravikant in The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, ~Eric Jorgenson

“What you want in life is to be in control of your time. You want to get into a leveraged job where you control your own time and you’re tracked on the outputs. If you do something incredible to move the needle on the business, they have to pay you. Especially if they don’t know how you did it because it’s innate to your obsession or your skill or your innate abilities, they’re going to have to keep paying you to do it.” ~Naval Ravikant in The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, ~Eric Jorgenson

Last Set:

“If you hold back who you really are, the people you attract are representations of that version you’re holding back. If you present your whole self to the world…the honest self…everything and everyone that’s for you can make its way faster. That’s it. You will never have to force a connection that’s real, an opportunity that was meant for you, or an outcome that’s favorable and specifically designed for you, but you’re going to have to be yourself to do so. Let go so your people can find you.” ~Matt Gottesman

Food For Thought:

“And the reason I want to say this to the audience is don’t think that I came up with any of this stuff on my own. There was a lot of people coaching me through. And so, Rory put me with one of the top sports psychologists, his name’s Howard Schwartz. He’s out of Montreal. He does all MLB pitchers. Howard really brought the idea of A, stopping to focus on where we were going to be specifically this season. He asked me what my goal was. I said, ‘I want to make the NHL.’ So, my goal is a point in the future that is very far. So, we have to stop optimizing per se, for what’s going to happen in September at training camp, because I might not get the results I want in six months. But if we keep chipping away today, we’re going to get somewhere in a long time. And that pressure of saying, ‘Hey, I may not be the best next season. But if we have a game plan and we stick to the game, plan, time will do its thing.’ At a young age, that alleviates a lot of pressure from you…So when I was showing up every season and getting a little bit better, to my peers, maybe I wasn’t succeeding. But to myself I was succeeding in a major way because I was one step closer to this far vision of the NHL. I remember as I was really starting to hit top tier, where I started going into the top five goalies in Canada, that’s when people started to take notice. I remember somebody asked me one training camp when I came back one summer and I was really at the top of my game, what did you do this season? I said, ‘Well, it’s not what I did this season. We started this game plan five years ago.’ It’s not a last six-month thing. So, I think entrepreneurs think that when you read the headlines and the media and everything, that results always need to be within 12 months. That’s true to a certain extent based on where you are in the trajectory and what the narrative is and how you’re raising funds. But ultimately the longer the vision, the more you’re going to optimize for things that your peers are most probably not optimizing for and decision making, that will allow you to actually have a competitive edge over the long term. That’s where it’s a mind f*ck for a lot of people, is that it’s not instant gratification. So, humans tend to avoid things that are not instant gratification.” ~Nick Saltarelli in Founders Field Guide, Invest Like the Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy

Food For Thought II:

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes, which are covered in mud and mire, and I put on regal and curial robes; and dressed in a more appropriate manner I enter into the ancient courts of ancient men and am welcomed by them kindly, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born; and there I am not ashamed to speak to them, to ask them the reasons for their actions; and they, in their humanity, answer me; and for four hours I feel no boredom, I dismiss every affliction, I no longer fear poverty nor do I tremble at the thought of death; I become completely part of them.” ~Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli

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