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Disappointment is a function of expectations; a good surprise is the function of the lack of expectations. #MsLolitasson. Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SB, KO* The Warm-Up: “Wisdom is earned, not given. When other people give us the answer, it belongs to them and not us. While we might achieve the outcome we desire, it comes from dependence, not insight. Instead of thinking for ourselves, we’re dependent on the insight of others.” ~Shane Parrish, Thinking For Oneself The Core: “The best friendships: different perspectives but similar values.” ~Orange Book “Nowadays, the scarcest traits are self-awareness and clarity of thoughts.” ~Orange Book “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~Albert Pine “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” ~John Wooden “Talent puts you on a path but doesn’t get you to the destination. The longer the time frame, the more hard work and relentless improvement matter.” ~Shane Parrish “It’s not about a career. It’s about believing in something, it’s about prosperity. And it’s about caring and empathizing and wanting to create the best, the most true to life, the most real.” ~River Phoenix “Compliments have a way of distracting me… [After receiving compliments some people] get fat and satisfied and get lost so they forget about the actual talent they have so they start living to another world.” ~Jimi Hendrix “I always hated it when people were like, ‘Oh you need to get realistic, go to school, go do this.’ Just because it is a dream that hasn’t happened yet, just because there are no results to show, doesn’t mean it’s not realistic.” ~Russ Vitale “Price discovery is stunted in private markets, as only optimists invest and there is no mechanism for pessimists to express their view.” ~Michael Mauboussin, Counterpoint Global Insights, Public to Private Equity in the United States: A Long-Term Look “Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict … An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” ~Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now “All we know is that the most important changes of the last 100 years have taken place during upheavals. And we’re currently in the biggest upheaval of the last 100 years. We know that creativity and discovery surge when people are forced to find, rather than just want, new solutions. We know that an irony of technology is that economies often make their greatest leaps forward when the outlook is bleakest. It might be one of the only silver linings of 2020.” ~Morgan Housel, When The Magic Happens “Lastly, the effects this time are highly uneven, with people of color and low-income Americans affected disproportionately, at a time of heightened sensitivity to this issue. They’re more likely to have lost their jobs and less likely to have enjoyed gains in net worth from asset appreciation – not to mention their higher rates of infection and death due to the pandemic. Whites and white-collar workers and professionals, on the other hand, are more likely to have kept their jobs and to have benefited from asset price inflation through home ownership and participation in the stock market.” ~Howard Marks, Time for Thinking Last Set: “I’d estimate at least half of my frustrations with others are actually frustrations with myself for failing to set clear boundaries and stand by them.” ~James Clear Food for Thought: “Forgiveness, of others and one’s self, can be a powerful, life-altering process. It can change the trajectory of a relationship or even one’s life. It is not the only response one can make to being hurt or hurting others, but it is an effective way to manage the inevitable moments of conflict, disappointment, and pain in our lives. Forgiveness embraces both the reality of the offence and the empathy and compassion needed to move on. True forgiveness doesn’t shy away from responsibility, recompense or justice. By definition, it recognizes that something painful, even wrong, has been done. Simultaneously, forgiveness helps us to embrace something beyond the immediate gut-reaction of anger and pain and the simmering bitterness that can result. Forgiveness encourages a deeper, more compassionate understanding that we are all flawed in our different ways and that we all need to be forgiven at times.” ~Nathaniel Wade, Forgive and be free
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