Easy to hate. Hard to create. #Sahil…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *AT, JW*

The Warm-Up: 

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Core: 

“Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work; not the starting point.” ~Frederick Maitland

“Think like a philosopher. Train and rest like an athlete. Take action like an entrepreneur.” ~Shane Parrish

“If you don’t regularly get lessons of humility, you are not playing at the right difficulty level.” ~Orange Book

“Fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Learning how to leave people alone and go on with your life is a needed skill. You must master it.” ~Raegan Mathis

“If you want to know who your tribe is, speak your truth. Then see who sticks around. Those are the people who get a spot in your blanket fort.” ~Nanea Hoffman

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” ~Joseph Campbell

“If you want to get better at thinking you have to surround yourself with people who will shine a light on your blind spots. That’s uncomfortable which is why most people won’t do it. Watch the short clip on thinking better.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food No. 387

“Family: Being truthful about the state of our nation and world does not = losing hope. Hope sees truth and still believes in better; and is willing to strategize and work for it. That which dismisses or does not seek truth, but says, ‘It will be okay’ is naivete, not hope.” ~Bernice King

“We all can use a reminder: While LinkedIn makes it easy to find someone’s pedigree (where they worked, where they went to school, who they know), it does NOT reveal someone’s character (their values, kindness, courage, integrity, grit, loyalty, sense of humor, etc.).” ~Josh Kopelman

“As a Black Woman in America I have long faced the reality that the future I fight for may never come. That doesn’t stop us from fighting. What else is there to do but dream the impossible dream and work like hell to attain it? It’s what our ancestors did so that we could be here.” ~Leslie Mac

“Most of the time, the phrase is, ‘it’s time to get back to work.’ This means it’s time to stop being creative, stop dancing with possibility, stop acquiring new insights and inspiration–and go back to the measurable grind instead. Maybe we’d be better off saying, ‘I need to get back to making magic.’ Because that’s what we’d actually like to be getting paid to create.” ~Seth Godin, Time to get back to magic

“The great naturalist Aldo Leopold once said, ‘Game is a phenomenon of the edge,’ by which he meant that to spot wildlife you should sit at the boundary between two habitats, where the forest meets the meadow, or the mountain opens onto a stream. So, it is with insights: they exist in moments of cultural contrast.” ~Benjamin Lorr, The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Last Set: 

“If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.” ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Food for Thought: 

“Police brutality, white privilege, racism — it’s all real. It’s time we stop pretending, or defending, or just closing our eyes to what’s right in front of us. We have to listen, and we have to keep having these hard conversations…These are not political problems. These are human problems. It should not be seen as a political statement to discuss this stuff honestly. And I’m sure there are people out there who simply don’t want to hear it…Listen, I’m not some perfect person. I’m not trying to lecture anybody. I’ve made a million mistakes. I grew up in Highland Park, Texas, which is probably one of the most privileged places in the country. It’s a place that I still love very much, but it’s a bubble. That’s just a fact. I was not exposed to a lot of diversity or different ideas growing up. I was not educated on these issues, and I probably said a bunch of stupid things when I was young that I regret. But a big part of life is about looking inside yourself and trying to evolve as a person…All I can ask you to do, as we continue through this NFL season, is to close your eyes and really put yourself in other people’s shoes. Try for a minute to put all the social media and the politics and the arguing aside, and look within yourself. Ask yourself hard questions. But more than anything, listen.  It’s time.” ~Matthew Stafford, We Can’t Just Stick to Football