Just because you acknowledge the problem doesn’t automatically solve it…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *AR, AM, AB, TB*

The Warm-Up: 

“Nik Nikic clutched his son, drew him close and whispered in his ear: ‘Are you going to let your pain win, or let your dreams win?’” ~Kurt Streeter, Chris Nikic, You Are an Ironman. And Your Journey Is Remarkable

The Core: 

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~Rumi

“In practice, good intentions rarely work as well as good incentives.” ~Paul Graham

“Persistence becomes second nature the day you realize results don’t come linearly.” ~Orange Book

“Your mind can be there harshest of prisons, or the most beautiful oasis. Which it becomes is entirely up to you.” ~Forge of Man

“You will find peace when you’re doing the thing that makes you come alive to impact the problems that break your heart.” ~Shaun King, author of Make Change

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all of your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.” ~Howard Marks

“Entitlement fails. An attitude of entitlement doesn’t increase the chances you’ll get what you want. And it ruins the joy of the things you do get. Win or lose, you lose.” ~Seth Godin

“Do not get it twisted. Love does not seek to control or dominate. Good leaders do not seek to control or dominate. True friends do not seek to control or dominate. Insecurity does.” ~Steven Bartlett

“[Venture capital] is all about figuring out which questions are the right questions to ask. And since we don’t have a clue what the right answer is, we’re very interested in the process by which the entrepreneur get to the conclusion.” ~Don Valentine

“A secret hiding in plain sight: learning from people with visible flaws. It’s possible to take in the good and reject the bad. Eat the avocado and throw away the peel. As Seneca said, ‘I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.’” ~Shane Parrish

“Almost everything in life can be learned faster. Experience teaches many lessons, but usually in a passive way. You don’t need years, but rather the insights years gradually provide. One way is to simply ask the top people what they do. Make their best practices your baseline.” ~James Clear

“Come from the right place. It’s important that you give people feedback because you want them to succeed and not because you want them to fail. If you really want someone to succeed, then make her feel it. Make her feel you. If she feels you and you are in her corner, then she will listen to you.” ~Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Product is the answer to frequently experienced problems, content is the answer to frequently asked questions. The questions you get asked most frequently are the signals that can help direct the things you publish. The people you meet as a result of the things you publish will provide the insight you need to develop product. This feedback loop never ends…” ~Jack Butcher

“It’s the idea that variance equals strength, because the more diverse a population is the more chances it has to come up with new traits that can be selected for. No one can know what traits will be useful; that’s not how evolution works. But if you create a lot of traits, the useful one – whatever it is – will be in there somewhere.” ~Morgan Housel, We Have No Idea What Happens Next

“We can’t live a role cast by others, created by others; we have to be ourselves. Maybe we don’t fit in, and maybe we don’t need to. I won’t apologize for being enthusiastic or curious or determined. I won’t let others think that there is only one way to be in this industry or in any industry. Innovation comes from having the courage to be different and to do things differently.” ~Arlan Hamilton, It’s About Damn Time

Last Set: 

“There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Food for Thought: 

“I do know that sometime in high school I started asking questions—about my father’s absence and my mother’s choices; about how it was I’d come to live in a place where few people looked like me. A lot of the questions centered on race: Why did Blacks play professional basketball but not coach it? What did that girl from school mean when she said she didn’t think of me as Black? Why were all the Black men in action movies switchblade-wielding lunatics except for maybe the one decent Black guy—the sidekick, of course—who always seemed to end up getting killed? But I wasn’t concerned only with race. It was class as well. Growing up in Indonesia, I’d seen the yawning chasm between the lives of wealthy elites and impoverished masses. I had a nascent awareness of the tribal tensions in my father’s country—the hatred that could exist between those who on the surface might look the same.” ~Barack Obama, A Promised Land