Focus on gems, not trends…Walk Good. 28all. Eya.

The Warm-Up: 

“The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.” ~Charlie Munger

The Core: 

“Your life changes when you stop waiting for others to change and start living based on the truth that’s been revealed.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Friendly reminder your job as CEO of a startup is to recruit a team of generalists to build and then recruit a team of specialists to scale.” ~Andrew Gazdecki

“Contrary to what society tells you, success is not about fitting in or following the crowd. It’s about being true to yourself and pursuing your own path.” ~Kpaxs

“Sam Bankman-Fried: I don’t know where $10 billion dollars went. The Pentagon: We don’t know where $2.2 trillion dollars went. The IRS: You just sent $601.37 don’t forget to report it.” ~@alifarhat79

“People need to understand that healthy trust is built over time. It’s built on consistency of words and actions. It’s built on seeing first-hand how someone shows up. It’s not built on how much you’re attracted to someone or how much you like them.” ~Maryam Hasnaa

“It’s hard to be a great leader without a pretty long run at a single company. You just don’t get the chance to see things through and work through things that are legitimately difficult. I’ll take someone who grew up at a single company or two over lots of short hops all day.” ~Jack Altman

“God is saying to you today, ‘If you want to know who I am, you need to understand I’m the God of that part of you that you don’t want anybody to see. I’m not just the God of your success. I’m the God of your struggle. I’m not just the God of your victories. I’m the God of your defeats.’” ~Steven Furtick

“If you’re serious about accountability, be serious about owning your shit, apologizing and changing your behavior, matching your actions to your words, and getting real with the role you played in creating your own toxic patterns and how much you participate in your own suffering.” ~@MindTendencies2

Many bets fail not because they were wrong, but because they were mostly right in a situation that required things to be exactly right. Room for error – often called margin of safety – is one of the most underappreciated forces in finance. It comes in many forms: A frugal budget, flexible thinking, and a loose timeline – anything that lets you live happily with a range of outcomes.” ~Morgan Housel, Getting Wealthy vs. Staying Wealthy

“It’s no coincidence that Enron happened in the late 2000 and that FTX occurred in 2022. Extended, frothy bull markets are a breeding ground for unwarranted corporate behavior. When markets are soaring, speculation increases and as a direct result so does risk. Also, when everything appears to work, investors are more willing to suspend belief. As it was with crypto, sometimes this leads to the development of ‘new investment rules’ that crowd out traditional norms.” ~Bill Gurley, Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist

Last Set:

“I used to be in awe of relationships that stood the test of time, but now, it’s the connections that have genuine happiness within them that are gold to me. Years mean nothing when the journey to bring you to where you are has been miserable and low vibrational.” ~Billy Chapata

Food For Thought:

“Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, as an old man now, the single greatest danger you are going to meet in your life is status quo. It is the thing that they are going to fight and battle you against more than any other thing in the world. And what’s staggering about what I just said, which is a truism, is that there’s only two, there’s only two hundred-percenters in the world that I can give you. One, we’re all going to die. Hate to break it to you. It’s just a matter of time. The second is everything is going to eventually change, otherwise we’d be living in caves right now. Change is part of the human condition. And yet every day you run into systems that are crushingly holding on to status quo, are holding on to yesterday. And for those of us that are wired to think about tomorrow, we become the rebels, we become the outcasts, we become the people who are rocking the boat, who are just, ‘Todd, why don’t you just relax, get along?’ All the things that they’re going to tell you. And what I’m saying that happened to me has happened to millions of people throughout history that want to do something different. Not better. Let me be very clear, not better, different.” ~Todd McFarlane on The Tim Ferriss Show — How to Make Iconic Art, Reinvent Spider-Man, Live Life on Your Own Terms, and Meet Every Deadline (#639)

Food For Thought II:

“Recently heard a story about an Olympic ice skater. After failing to qualify in 2012, his coach said: ‘Here’s a cup and a bag of rice. After every training session, do some reflection. If you gave 100% effort, put one grain of rice into the cup. You have four years to fill it up.’” ~David Perell

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