Blessing on top of blessings.…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *TS*

The Warm-Up: 

“You are what you do. Not what you say or what you believe. People use words to strategically justify their actions and blind you to who they really are. Don’t be fooled by cheap talk. Pay close attention to how people actually spend their time and effort.” ~Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson)

The Core: 

“Always pay it forward. And don’t keep count.” ~Naval Ravikant

“Innovation happens when you’re comfortable being yourself.” ~Shane Parrish

“Thinking outside the box is easy, stepping outside the box is hard.” ~Sahil Bloom

“Hang up your bad drawings on the wall, not just your good ones. You learn more from your bad drawings than your good drawings. Creativity risks failure, perhaps requires failure. It thrives on exploration, discovery, play.” ~Kpaxs

“When a person’s presence boosts your peace. We rarely stop and realize how many people don’t have a support system, anybody to miss, grow with, care for, etc. To have it is a blessing. Cherish the ones who contribute to your growth.” ~Rob Hill Sr.

“I used to take it personally when people were too busy to talk or help me. Now I get it. Everyone’s doing their best and some have a ton going on. My priorities aren’t their priorities and that’s okay. The more grace and understanding you give people, the better off you’ll be.” ~Jarrid Tingle

“Integrity is not based on value or morals. It is based on honoring and keeping your word. When people choose to operate in integrity, their words about the future cause the future. People trust them. They reach a level of performance that otherwise would be unattainable.” ~Chris McGoff, The Primes

“It’s not been a horrible life, Isaac. It’s just been a lonely one. But that was my own doing. Reading taught me that a man’s life is his own responsibility, his own creation. Blaming others is a waste of time. No one can make you happy if you’re determined to be miserable. And, for many years, I was.” ~Daniel Black, Don’t Cry For Me

“But what is integrity? At the risk of oversimplifying it, integrity is all about keeping your word. You do what you say you are going to do. When teams operate with integrity they become more powerful; provided teams are committed to a shared intent and shared perspectives because they are delivering on their promises.” ~Jeff Stump, Building Trust and Assessing Integrity as You Interview

“If you wanna know what Heavens looks like | Looking like me and you | If you wanna know what Heaven sounds like | Just let it fill the room | If you wanna know what Heavens looks like | Looking like me and you | If you wanna know what Heaven sounds like | Just let it fill the room (Let’s go, let’s go)…” ~Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin ft. Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore, Kingdom

“Of course you’re interesting. There’s something about what you’ve done, what you say, how you show up in the world that’s worthy of interest. But that doesn’t mean that people are interested. We each have a noise in our heads, an agenda and something urgent that’s grabbing our attention. And so, the amount of interest you receive (or don’t receive) has little to do with how interesting you are and a lot to do with how the people you seek to serve have organized their priorities long before you got there.” ~Seth Godin, Interested vs. Interesting

“We’re not a glamorous business, just an infrastructure company that hopefully we’ll be able to compound for a long time…If you want to build stuff that everyone’s heard about at Thanksgiving dinner, Stripe will never be that for you…But if you’re the kind of person who just finds building infrastructure for those people rewarding, then I think corporate-scale Stripe is actually fun and meaningful.” ~Patrick Collison in The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top, by Alex Konrad

“Subjective is the word that I would use for pretty much everything you do in valuation. There are no objective numbers in valuation. Last year’s number is objective, but you don’t invest based on last year’s numbers. You base it on the expectation that last year’s numbers will be next year’s numbers. That’s subjective. So for those people who critique valuation as being subjective in making forecasts for the future, I’d much rather face up to uncertainty than hide from it.” ~Aswath Damodaran in Making Sense of the Market on Invest Like The Best by Patrick O’Shaughnessy

“ ‘He coached with the greatest ever to do it in Pop,’ [Marcus] Smart said. ‘He’s a sponge. Every place he went, he soaked it all in, put it into his game and brought it over here to us…It’s all about energy. If the energy’s right, you’re going to rock with it. If it’s not, then you’re not. It’s plain and simple: I think the energy has been contagious to us all.’ It might seem unconventional, but sometimes it’s best to direct that energy toward controlling everybody else’s. It’s the kind of move that looks a lot like the product of experience.” ~Tim Keown, NBA Finals 2022: Ime Udoka’s championship experience proving to be the Boston Celtics' equalizer against Golden State Warriors

Last Set:

“One of the more surprising things in business is the degree to which an inexperienced person with the right mindset will outperform a highly experienced person without it. Someone with an extreme sense of ownership, a low ego, high desire to learn, a deep curiosity for how things work, and some way in which they need to prove themselves. The extent to which you can bet on these people is unintuitive until you’ve seen it play out a bunch of times.” ~Jack Altman

Food For Thought:

“In every area of life, there is a hidden asymmetry. If you apply your focus like everyone else, you will get the same results as everyone else. Understanding where to apply your focus makes a massive difference in results. Everyone knows that focus matters. Most people don’t know where to focus. Telling people ‘to focus more’ is about as helpful as telling them to ‘make better decisions.’ Common advice but useless in practice. Not all focus is equal. Some focus is asymmetric. Knowing where to focus makes a difference. How do you know where to focus? The answer is a deep fluency in the problem. You need to embed yourself in the problem and the details. You need to try things, reflect, and learn. Sooner or later, you start to understand the hidden asymmetry. A lot of business people treat all decisions the same, no matter the implications. They’ll spend as much time trying to decide a trivial decision as a major one. A lot of authors focus on the work and miss that how it’s positioned for the audience matters more. A lot of people go to the gym 4 days a week only to miss that what goes into their body and the amount of sleep matter more. The visible problem might appear to be a lack of focus, but the invisible problem is often not knowing where to focus to get the best results. In any field, a few areas of focus make an asymmetric difference. Often they’re hiding in plain sight and ignored by most. One place to find asymmetry is to listen to people talk about others’ success … ‘that book sold a lot, but did you read it, it’s not well written.’ That’s an indication that the quality of writing matters less than you think and something else matters more. Or consider the person that explains another person’s success away with ‘luck.’ There might be an element of luck to it, sure, but when you pull back the curtain, I bet you discover they’re focusing a little bit more on something different. Success leaves clues. What looks like a lack of focus is often a lack of understanding.” ~Shane Parrish, Tiny Thought, Brain Food. No. 475— June 5th, 2022 

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