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Good to Great...28all. Eya. *AB* The Warm-Up: “I know He loves me, I know He cares | Whenever I call, He always is right there | In times of trouble, He is my help | Yeah I know no fear | I know He’ll be right there…” ~Chandler Moore, Omemma The Core: “People don’t like to talk about money…But silence is not how you learn.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.” ~Michelle Williams “The smartest version of yourself isn’t overthinking, the smartest version of yourself is focused on getting things done.” ~Orange Book “Ask yourself…do you feel like you’ve been ‘chosen’ for what you’re doing, or does it feel like you’re ‘settling’ for it.” ~Matt Gottesman “The show horse and the plow horse—he was more of a show horse, whereas I was more of a plow horse.” ~Alan Wurtzel (in Good to Great, by Jim Collins) “True strength is in the willingness to process your own pain. Not avoid, numb, or cope, but to go into it. Sit with it. And then transform it into power.” ~Nika Sole “You don’t need to do more…you often need to do less…but better. Eliminate everything that distracts you. Double down on everything that promotes you.” ~Matt Gottesman “My life got better when I realized I didn’t have to be nice. Nice got me ran over, stressed out and disrespected. I’m not nice. I’m a good person. There’s a difference.” ~@psychewizard “The degree of path dependence in careers is crazy. A little luck early on leads to an accumulation of network / resources / learning in a way that’s hard to believe until you see it.” ~Jack Altman “A ludicrous amount of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind, but yeah don’t worry you’re different.” ~Dylan O’Sullivan “Not a lot of people understand this…but you actually don’t have to have an opinion about everything. You don’t have to decide if something is good or bad. Marcus Aurelius says limiting the amount of opinions we have is one of the most powerful things we can do in life.” ~Ryan Holiday “Simone Biles is not a generational talent. She’s so good that they had to create a new difficulty level to score her. She has multiple moves named after her. She’s not a generational talent. She’s the best to have ever existed. And we’re all blessed to be able to witness it.” ~Brandon Ames “Raise the level of your ambitions. It’s not about money, status, or glory; it’s about respecting your own potential, and one day, you will look back at all the great people you met along the way, and realize your paths only crossed because you were all working on difficult goals.” ~Orange Book “Sometimes the waves keep coming in your direction because the phase you’re in is teaching you how to swim; above your fears and insecurities, above opinions or assumptions that don’t belong to you, above everything that suffocates you so you can finally learn how to breathe.” ~Billy Chapata “The good-to-great companies were not, by and large, in great industries, and some were in terrible industries. In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off. Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.” ~Jim Collins, Good to Great Last Set: “Sheep don’t bring their owners grass to prove to them how much they’ve eaten, they digest it inwardly and outwardly bring forth milk and wool. So don’t make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.” ~Epictetus Food For Thought: “There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly where it was. And the silt and the fish have all moved too. So, what’s ‘the Mississippi River’? It’s a label, a placeholder, and a marker–when the Mississippi does something we don’t expect it to do, we comment on it. People are like this as well. What if you could only be known for the best (or the worst) thing you ever did? You’re not that person now, and it’s likely you’ll never be that person again. But that’s the label we gave you. When we talk about the organization or the brand or that neighbor down the street, we act as these are immutable objects, basic unchanging elements or static facts. But like rivers, people change. When the label stops being useful, we should change it. The problem with holding a grudge is that it makes your hands too full to do anything useful.” ~Seth Godin, The Mississippi River paradox
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