Full of emptiness, or empty of fullness, too tired to ponder the paradox.#TheHeartoftheDeal…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *SW, LM*

The Warm-Up: 

“You defy the odds. After years of being shaded, you manage to shine brighter than most. I’m glad you survived. May your radiance be appreciated especially by you.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

The Core: 

“Never forget, they ignore you until they need something from you.” ~@aemieruls_

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” ~Charles Darwin

“They loved him in spite of, she loved him because of.” ~Lindsay MacMillan, The Heart of the Deal

“You have to get what you want your own way.” ~Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 6

“You can’t lose with house odds and time. You can’t win with gambler odds and time.” ~Peter Kaufman

“All tech companies want to become banks. All the banks want to become tech companies.” ~James Clear

“When you plan something well there’s no need to rush.” ~Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 6

“When you start to realize so many people are emotionally wounded children in adult bodies, you stop taking so much shit personally.” ~@_Pammy_DS_

“Who knew writing great emails is one of the more important skills founders need to succeed? Also was hard for me to imagine how hard of a skill this is to master.” ~Michael Seibel

“If you have the ability to make a lot of money, do it. Then use that money to help. If making a lot of money isn’t an option, make sure you have enough to thrive. Then use your free time to help and engage. Play a role that’s larger than you.” ~Joe Holder

“If you never spend any time alone, you can’t think independently, you can’t learn with real depth, you can’t reorganize your own thoughts, you can’t understand what you truly want from life. Time alone isn’t lonely, it’s mind-fixing, it’s life-changing.” ~Orange Book

“The human body requires it and rest must happen regardless of how much you did (or didn’t do) for the day. Your worth isn’t measured by what you’ve produced. You aren’t a machine; you are a human being. Rest is the fuel for living.” ~Jenna Kutcher, how are you, Really?

“Work-life balance sets the bar too low. No one grows up dreaming of a job that doesn’t interfere with their life. We hope to spend our waking hours doing work that enriches our lives. A toxic job drains you. A decent job sustains you. A healthy job invigorates you.” ~Adam Grant

“ ‘I want to,’ he added quickly. ‘Believe me, I’m sure it’s an incredible refrigerator.’ He paused for a grin. ‘It’s just—I don’t know much about stock markets, but the one tip my dad gave me was to always focus on the long term, not the short term. And it’s always been about the long game with you, Raelynn.’” ~Lindsay MacMillan, The Heart of the Deal

“Ambitious people compete insanely hard to accumulate options for the future, instead of figuring out what they really want to do and doing it. That’s like spending your whole life filling up the gas tank without ever driving. This lets you off the hook of doing the hard work of figuring out what it is you want and what you should be doing with your life. The secret is that taking risks provides optionality as well, via learning and differentiation.” ~Erik Torenberg, Reconsidering Career Optionality

“I have no idea how to find the perfect balance between internal and external benchmarks. But I know there’s a strong social pull toward external measures – chasing a path someone else set, whether you enjoy it or not. Social media makes it ten times more powerful. But I also know there’s a strong natural desire for internal measures – being independent, following your quirky habits, and doing what you want, when you want, with whom you want. That’s what people actually want.” ~Morgan Housel, Lifestyles

Last Set:

“Your career is not meant to be straightforward. There will be moments when you question whether you love what you do. You will experiment with new things that might lead you to a while new life. You will unlearn and relearn all your skills as the world changes. Stay flexible.” ~Orange Book

Food For Thought:

“Leaders today are much better. Here’s the problem, the standards are much different. As leaders’ behavior has actually improved, the expectations of leaders has actually gone up far faster than their behavior change. So today companies can’t tolerate bad leaders because employees won’t put up with them. In the old days, nobody liked being managed by a bully, nobody liked a bad leader, nobody likes being talked down to, treated like an idiot, but they had to put up with it, they had no choice. Today, people have a choice and you know what they’ll say? Goodbye, especially after COVID, goodbye. They’re not going to put up with that. It doesn’t mean leaders are worse than they used to be, it just means the expectations are higher than they used to be and employees have a lot more power than they used to have.” ~Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership. The Knowledge Project Ep. #142 w/ Shane Parrish

Fun Fact:

Michael Jordan had more 40+ point games than games where he scored less than 20 points! ~@Real7Talk

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