It’s important to remember that a giant looks in the mirror and sees nothing…#DondaWestWisdom #alessonabouthumility…Walk good. 28all. Eya.*KV, JS*

The Warm-Up: 

“I’m hungry, dog…[Playas] always be talking about what I got, but they don’t realize I’m nowhere near where I want to be. I might be living your American dream, but I’m nowhere near where my dreams are. I’ve got aspirations… I’ve got big dreams…I’m a rapper, dog…Man, before I had my car, I used to be walking to the train, practicing my Grammy speech.” ~Ye, Jeen-Yuhs

The Core: 

“Be a giver, hang out with givers, good things will keep happening.” ~Orange Book

“Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.” ~Stephen Levine

“Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Learn until you are confident in your ability to learn anything, that’s when the real game of life begins.” ~Orange Book

“Pessimists sound smart, optimists make stuff happen. Pick carefully which you want to be and which you want to surround yourself with.” ~Jack Altman

“The ultimate productivity hack: Schedule one hour early each morning with yourself to work on your top priority. Do this every single workday. No exceptions. Watch what happens.” ~Shane Parrish

“Love that fills you up is nice, but I’d much rather a love that makes me feel lighter. My wholeness is my responsibility, all I ask is that you don’t add more weight to my bag while I figure out different roads that lead me back to myself.” ~Billy Chapata

“Hold your composure. Don’t let the uncertainty ahead of you make you lose sight of the greatness inside you. You can be happy without need everything to go your way. As your self-awareness builds, so will your poise under challenging times. The reward for being solid is knowing you’re not them.” ~Rob Hill Sr.

“I urge you to support the risk takers…your favorite creators and their work, art, brands, launches, writing, books, whatever. It takes a lot of courage to be early, to be first, or to be different. You may not think your support means as much but to the creators, it means the world…especially when you’re different.” ~Matt Gottesman

“Effortless Action means accomplishing more by trying less. You stop procrastinating and take the first obvious step. You arrive at the point of completion without overthinking and overthinking. You make progress by pacing yourself rather than powering through. You overachieve without overexerting.” ~Greg McKeown, Effortless

“Hire people ahead of their own curve. Hire more for aptitude than experience and give people the career opportunity of a lifetime. They will be motivated and driven, with a cannot-fail attitude. The good ones would grab the opportunity to accelerate their careers with us. Look for hunger, attitude, innate abilities. Perhaps look for the same career-frustrated person I had been all these years.” ~Frank Slootman, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

“I also got the feeling from listening to his comment that he didn’t actually place all that much emphasis on the result of the decision at that time. He didn’t care about the short-term. He offered no apologies; no mea culpa. I think he understood that this was a bad result in just one game, and not to read too much into it. He has done a great job throughout his career of not placing much emphasis on any one game. The media hyperventilates about short-term results. This happens in sports, it happens in business, and it happens in the stock market. Humans are emotional.” ~John Huber, The Superpower of Belichick and Buffett

“The environment has to be right. Are there people truly invested in your development? Otherwise, it’s hard to give candid feedback on what someone is doing well or not well. It’s different from mentorship, but rather sponsorship. That person will speak up on your behalf when you are not in the room and use their own capital to push you along. And [everyone in the company] has to see it as a business priority and realize that growing the pie is good for everyone.” ~Greg Davis, in response to “Getting [diverse] people into the entry level is just part of the problem. How do you retain them to make meaningful chance?”, What to Do With Your Money as Rates Rise and Markets Stumble

Last Set:

“What looks like skill is often just consistency. While you can’t snap your fingers and become more talented, you can create your own talent. Consistency creates talent. And you won’t be consistent if you only do things when you feel like it.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food, No. 460

Food For Thought:

I got goosebumps rapping Family Business as I watched Ye rap it to Scarface one hour into Jeen-Yuhs. It made me think of my freshman year roommate who was from Chi-Town and loved Kanye (RIP Jordan). It made me think of where I was when I first heard that song, when I first memorized the lyrics, and thoughts of my own family business. The scene also reinforced a recent comment that a mentor suggested that I ask myself every day, “What have I done today for Sean 2025?” That hit me. Cause to think about how / what Ye must have felt trying to get put on, trying so hard to get his music heard, to all the music he has since released…Inspiring. And it also reinforces that I aint come this far just to come this far. Let’s keep going.

“Ye finds his vocal credit on back of Scarface’s Guess Who’s Back. ‘I needed this shit yo,’ he exclaims. Then far from the mononymous public figure he would become, Ye notes how ‘Kanye’ was frequently assumed to be a typo. ‘It’s, like, an Ethiopian-French name,’ he says. ‘It means ‘the only one.’’ Prophetic.” ~Jack King, The most revealing moments in Ye documentary Jeen-Yuhs

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