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Don’t let up…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *KO, JJ* The Warm-Up: “A person who has nothing to lose will help you lose everything you ever worked for.” ~Anonymous The Core: “We live in a society so fake that the truth actually offends people.” ~nomadsovereign “The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.” ~Thelonious Monk (@_nitch) “Life keeps getting better if you keep investing in your creativity and character.” ~Orange Book “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” ~John F. Kennedy “As you heal your insecurities, you realize you’ve been apologizing to people who harmed you.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Remember: The wordless communication, the indirect compliment, contains the most power.” ~Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power “You will rarely get more than what you’re willing to ask for. By not risking a rejection, you reject yourself before anyone else can.” ~Kpaxs “Create friendships based on connection not surveillance. Discern the difference between a kindred spirit and a spectator.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “The common narrative is that kids learn faster than adults, but I’m not sure the difference is meaningful. Watch any toddler. They spend nearly every waking minute on the edge of their ability and then sleep 12 hours. If adults acted similarly, they would be learning machines.” ~James Clear “Long time LPs use pattern recognition to pick managers. The problem is much of the pattern recognition is antiquated and often biased against underrepresented and also not aligned with the new era of VC. It’s why institutions need to have younger and more diverse allocators on [their] team.” ~Samir Kaji “I hope I can be as strong and as resilient as New York has been the past 20 years. Thank you for always having my back, thank you for always cheering for me.” ~Leylah Fernandez, at the end of her remarks during the Women’s U.S. Open trophy ceremony, acknowledging the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks “‘First of all, I want to say ‘sorry’ for you fans and Novak, because, I mean, we all know what he was going for today,’… ‘what [Djokovic] accomplished this year and throughout your career…I never said this to anybody, but I’ll say it right now. For me, you are the greatest tennis player in history.’” ~Daniil Medvedev “Weakness is a great thing...strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being...what has hardened will never win.” ~Andrei Tarkovsky (@_nitch) “However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history.” ~Mark Suster, The Changing Venture Landscape “Competition at the highest level in sports or business produces gut-ripping setbacks. When you’re fighting for your survival professionally, struggling when no one else knows or cares, and there’s nobody to bail you out, that’s when you might remind yourself of my own dark night of despair. When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you’ll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.” ~Bill Walsh, The Score Takes Care of Itself Last Set: “Sometimes we think that God’s presence is only provided to fix our problems, but what if God’s presence is more about fixing our perspective? Sometimes, you’ll look at something in your life and it’ll seem like there is no way out. But God is saying this to you today: look again.” ~Steven Furtick Food For Thought: “I can’t watch Roger Federer play tennis and then swing the racket the same way. Nor will any description from him on how to swing the racket get me to swing it the right way. Then we go to intellectual efforts. We ask Warren Buffet why he invested in a company and he can try and create a mental construct as to how he thinks and how he invests in a company. But there are just as many details to Buffett’s activities, when he decides what to invest in and how he lives his life and how he thinks, as there are to Roger Federer’s body running around a tennis court, hitting a ball. At some level, the details are not transmissible. They’re not copyable.” ~Naval Ravikant, in an interview with Kapil Gupta: Conquering the Mind :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. To the extent someone felt compelled to spread the love and this was forwarded to you, you can sign up for the newsletter here.
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