If you want your dreams to come true, you have to wake up.#Mentality…Walk Good. 28all. Eya.

The Warm-Up: 

“Many of the things I get paid to do now, years ago people didn’t think I was cut out for. Not even to stunt, but honestly work on your craft so when the opp comes, you can take advantage. Often only need 1 person to co-sign you. Once that chance comes, seize.” ~Joe Holder

The Core: 

“The measure of wisdom is silence.” ~Naval Ravikant

“A plethora of options creates a poverty of commitment.” ~Shane Parrish

“If I’m wrong, educate me. Don’t belittle me. I’m growing too.” ~@Mentality

“Lies multiply, branching out into more lies; truth doesn’t.” ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Truth telling will cost you. Tell it anyway. Your silence costs you more.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ~Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Your boundaries start looking different when you start being honest with yourself.” ~Billy Chapata

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~Sigmund Freud

“One of my biggest founder learnings: Nothing is more expensive than a cheap lawyer.” ~Nolan Church

“I hope you stop giving your maximum to people who routinely minimize you. #shift.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Proceeds from IPOs of technology companies have amounted to $512M, down from $58.7B last year.” ~Ryan Petersen

“You cannot stomp something you’re running away from. You can’t influence something you never encounter.” ~Lacrae, Unashamed

“Just because you don’t get the response that you were looking for, doesn’t mean they didn’t hear you. Say what you have to say, because it needs to be said—not because you’re expecting a specific response from a specific person.” ~Michell C Clark

“Woke up covered in sweat from havin’ these wild dreams | Where I’m from, bright lights, they tend to be hard to see | Oh, I pray for strength, please let it wash off of me (Wash off of me) | I can’t help myself from havin’ these wild dreams…” ~Burna Boy ft. Khalid, Wild Dreams

“Imposter syndrome: ‘I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s only a matter of time until everyone finds out.’ Growth mindset: ‘I don’t know what I’m doing yet. It’s only a matter of time until I figure it out.’ The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.” ~Adam Grant

“Long tails drive everything. They dominate business, investing, sports, politics, products, careers, everything. Rule of thumb: Anything that is huge, profitable, famous, or influential is the result of a tail event. Another rule of thumb: Most of our attention goes to things that are huge, profitable, famous, or influential. And when most of what you pay attention to is the result of a tail, you underestimate how rare and powerful they really are.” ~Morgan Housel, Tails, You Win

Last Set:

“The great ones do not set up offices, charge fees, give lectures, or write books. Wisdom is silent, and the most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example. The great ones attract disciples, lesser figures whose mission is to preach and to teach. These are gospelers who, unequal to the highest task, spend their lives in converting others. The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior. They are the awakeners. What you do with your petty life is of no concern to them. What you do with your life is only of concern to you, they seem to say. In short, their only purpose here on earth is to inspire. And what more can one ask of a human being than that?” ~Henry Miller (@_Nitch)

Food For Thought:

“I’ve gotten really fortunate to get to know Charlie Munger over the last couple years. And I was on the phone with him about a year ago. And I told him a few stories about different experiences we’d had with CEOs. So in one example, a CEO came to me and he said, ‘Hey, I want to spend a million dollars and I want to try building this new revenue line.’ And I said, ‘I think that’s a bad idea for all the following reasons.’ And I’d had that experience, I’d actually tried to build a similar business. And he said, ‘No, I really think this is important. I really want to try it.’ And in that moment, I had a choice. I can either be the dictator and say, ‘No, I have majority control of the business, sorry, you’re not doing that,’ he resents me.

Maybe he builds a narrative that he didn’t hit his growth target because I disallowed him from doing it. And so I actually had to let him go and light a million dollars on fire to go do that experiment. Now, fortunately, it was a large business and that didn’t really matter in the grand scheme and he built scar tissue. That was awesome and so I relayed that story to Munger. And he said, ‘I’ve never ever had any luck changing anyone’s mind in my whole life. People come to their own conclusions and they have to go and have those experiences.’ And I’ve found that to be true.” ~Andrew Wilkinson: Entrepreneurial Insights on The Knowledge Project Ep. #143 w/ Shane Parrish

Food For Thought II:

“Great ideas and great execution are rare. Most competitive fields have strong feedback loops: Losers keep losing because no one wants to be associated with losers, and winners keep winning because winning opens doors, and open doors beget more open doors. Amazon is successful in part because it has cheap capital, and it has cheap capital because it’s successful. Sears, on the other hand, has virtually no shot at redemption. In many industries, customers do not want the fifth-best product. Talented employees don’t want the fifth-best employer. They want the best. So winning accrues to just a few. It’s as true for large companies as it is for startups, even if the latter happens faster.” ~Morgan Housel, Tails, You Win

Fun Facts:

*Calvin Johnson went through all of High School, College, played 9 NFL seasons, and made the HOF all while Tom Brady was still in the NFL. (@ESPN)

*If LeBron plays his average number of games next season (55), he will need to average 24.1PPG to pass Kareem as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. (@hbotheshop)

*It took 33 years to lower the 400m hurdles record by .78 seconds, from 52.94 to 52.16. Sydney McLaughlin lowered it by 1.48 seconds in 13months and lowered it by .73 seconds on July 22nd, 2022 alone. (Source: Rodger Sherman)

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