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Q3. Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *SB* The Warm-Up: “In the weight room, there is no place to hide. There are no excuses to be made, no negotiations to be had, no blame to be placed elsewhere. It is a place of total, brutal, sometimes crushing, sometimes uplifting, honesty. There is only the weight you can lift, the weight you cannot lift — and the effort you’re willing to put in to close the gap between the two. That’s the lure for Mark Ellis, the reason he is drawn to such a place. The weight room is life’s metaphor.” ~Jerry Price, The Strength of Mark Ellis The Core: “If the pain was deep you will have to let it go many times.” ~Yung Pueblo “Allow yourself to receive. You don’t have to always be a wall or a solider.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “The greater the emotional content in the conversation, the more it needs to happen face-to-face.” ~Naval Ravikant “At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” ~Christine Mason Miller “Self-respect leads to better habits. Better habits lead to better focus. Better focus leads to better life. Just respect yourself.” ~Orange Book “What’s the real secret? People, people, people. Real secret: relationships with absolutely the highest quality people.” ~note card reminder by David Swensen “Most funds will pitch a thesis when fundraising, but are opportunistic in practice. The best funds, like the best cos, are unique. A16Z is uniquely operational. FF is uniquely in deep tech. USV has unique theses. Paradigm is uniquely technical. Sequoia is uniquely consistent…” ~Naval Ravikant “Don’t mistake assertiveness for aggression. Being assertive is advocating for your interests. Being aggressive is attacking other people’s interests. Standing up for your ideals doesn’t make you pushy—it stops you from being a pushover. It’s not selfish—it’s self-preservation.” ~Adam Grant “It’s true. A lot of people won’t celebrate you until your wins feel ‘big’ enough to them. But you can celebrate yourself now. You can be proud of every step you take and every sacrifice you make. And you won’t need other people’s applause to be proud of how far you’ve come.” ~Michell C Clark “I have invested in 25+ funds and 200+ startups led by underestimated founders, donated ~$1mn in scholarships, become one of the highest paid speakers in the country, & have been sober for nearly 5 yrs. I could retire today & accomplished more than most critics will in a lifetime.” ~Arlan Hamilton “And in fact, I’ll tell you an interesting thing I’ve observed, you’ll rarely meet a wealthy person who cannot keep secrets. So I believe that wealth is like energy that stores itself in entropic complexities that seem to hold the information and symmetry in them, versus be these transient sources.” ~Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations on The Knowledge Project Ep. #141 w/ Shane Parrish “When you feel like it. It’s possible to create a life where we only perform tasks when we feel like it. More likely, though, we end up with commitments. Commitments require us to do work when they feel like it, regardless of whether we do or not. And the best sorts of commitments create a positive cycle. We end up changing our attitude and our energy precisely because we said we would. This is one reason why a long vacation can leave us in a torpor. Left to our own devices, we skid to a halt.” ~Seth Godin “So insights are usually connected from random dots getting connected, but the process of collecting dots has to be efficient for the process of connecting dots to be more efficient, and then collecting dots is easier if your friends are also collecting dots to connect dots. So what happens is that compounding naturally works better when you have a lot of people from different domains of life who are constantly collecting dots.” ~Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations on The Knowledge Project Ep. #141 w/ Shane Parrish “Or maybe an acceptance of the process, knowing it’ll be a constant chain of surprise, volatility, setback, and disappointment, but if you can stick around long enough the odds of eventual growth and success are in your favor. That’s very different from enjoying the process, which can quickly turn into an addiction to needing more. Money buys happiness in the same way drugs bring pleasure: Incredible if done right, dangerous if used to mask a weakness, and disastrous when no amount is ever enough.” ~Morgan Housel, Wealth vs. Getting Wealthier “In private equity, capitalism has perfected its version of a virtuous cycle. It is an essential service for pension funds and other investors. It draws in the best people. It performs consistently. It is growing rapidly. And in a pandemic or other world crisis, when liquid markets whipsaw and look uncertain, the illiquid nature of private equity and other forms of private capital—the inability to take your money out whenever you want—can be oddly appealing. In a volatile market, private equity is one of the last hopes investors have. It is more expensive and more opaque than other types of investing, but it works.” ~Sachin Khajuria, Two And Twenty Last Set: “Stop overthinking it and…Write it. Build it. Launch it. Observe it. Optimize it. Respect it. Scale it. And let your purpose take flight. Build in public > worry in private.” ~Matt Gottesman Food For Thought: “Your Gifts…You came here with gifts…those gifts have been trusted to you and are your responsibility. And there is no amount of motivation that can supersede humility when it comes to those gifts…meaning, you’re going to have to play out those gifts unbothered by beginnings, the external world or a public stage. Your gifts remove the complications that arise from your safe choices and unlock the life you are here to pursue. And you cannot lose with your gifts…they were given to you whole without limitations…with specific purpose…and designed for a life of delivering on their promise. Please accept and allow that responsibility.” ~Matt Gottesman :: 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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