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Rigorous, not ruthless...28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “Culture as I often say is not aspirational, culture is observational. Culture is not something that you dream up what you want it to be, that you aspire it to be…. It’s not brainstorming what our culture should be and now let’s print up forty posters and put them in the breakroom. That is not what culture is. Culture is how you as the founders behave. It’s how you as the senior Executives behave. People are watching you and they’re modeling off of you – that is what culture is. That’s where culture comes from. So, if you aren’t a certain way you can’t have your culture be that way…” ~Former Netflix CEO [Marc Randolf]: “Hard Work Does Not Matter!” A $278 Billion Company Wasn’t Built On Hard Work!, on The Diary Of A CEO w/ Steven Bartlett The Core: “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.” ~Alice Walker “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” ~Carl Jung “If you’re playing a game for applause, you’re playing the wrong game.” ~Naval Ravikant “Hard work is the point, not the way. You are the output of the hard work you do.” ~Alex Hormozi “You cant outrun a dog. A dog will chase you forever.” ~Quincy Hall after gold medal win in the 400m final “Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.” ~Wes Angelozzi “Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.” ~Jim Collins, Good to Great “The truth shrinks as the crowd grows. In a large meeting at work, people hold back their honest opinions. The resulting conversation offends the fewest people but is often not the truth. Smaller groups are more likely to find truth than larger ones.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food #589 “There is nothing more common than smart people with zero emotional control and zero patience: they make the initial good decisions, they are right, but they get bored easily, they panic when things don’t go according to plan, they don’t stick around long enough to get rewarded.” ~Orange Book “Most of your problems in today’s world are resource management problems. You have access to any information you need to do whatever you want. You cant focus for more than 30 seconds. You get distracted and quit after 2 weeks. You have the resources. You don’t have the clarity.” ~Dan Koe “Yes, compensation and incentives are important, but for very different reasons in good-to-great companies. The purpose of a compensation system should not be to get the right behaviors from the wrong people, but to get the right people on the bus in the first place, and to keep them there.” ~Jim Collins, Good to Great “There’s a well-known idea in real estate that you earn the highest ROI on the ugliest properties no one wants to own. The same is true for so many things in life: The unsexy work, where there’s little competition, is where some of the biggest ideas are found.” ~Morgan Housel, A Few Little Ideas And Short Stories “Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.” ~Kent Nerburn [Shane Parrish, Brain Food #589] Last Set: “A very important concept to understand professionally and personally: *When you lack confidence, you end up making decisions that prove yourself out. *When you have confidence, you also end up making decisions that prove yourself out. You drive to your truth.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner
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