Come through…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *KO, AR, LS*

The Warm-Up: 

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” ~Gustav Le Bon

The Core: 

“Do less. Keep returning to one thing and continue to refine it.” ~James Clear

“Reading is earning. Writing is investing. Doing is compound interest.” ~Blake Emal

“The more important the decision the less you should take other people’s word for it.” ~Shane Parrish

“You’re not competing with those who can (a lot of people), but those who do (very few).” ~Sahil Lavingia

“Be curious enough to start. Be crazy enough to believe you can. Be disciplined enough to stay consistent.” ~Aadit Sheth

“Whenever you feel like you’re losing yourself, spend more time with yourself and less time with other people.” ~Steven Bartlett

“The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you have two choices to make, and they’re relatively equal choices, take the path more difficult and more painful in the short term.” ~Naval Ravikant

“When you set a new boundary to honor yourself including your mental health some will act confused, some will get angry, and some will act like you didn’t say what you said. Keep the boundary. Your peace is worth it.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“I’m not interested in entrepreneurs who’ll do it our way. I’m not interested in entrepreneurs who think there’s a dress code. I’m interested in entrepreneurs who have a vision of doing something consequential, preferably that becomes BIG.” ~Don Valentine (1932-2019)

“Culture over everything. When I interview people, I don’t look at resumes. I want to get to know the person, who they truly are, what motivates them, what demotivates them, ideal work environment, etc. Look for motivation, attitude, and skill set in that order.” ~Andrew Gazdecki

“Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they reflect poorly on leaders and those they’ve hired. Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers, along with those who have succeeded by always finding someone to blame for their failures. It removes the ability to seem productive (by sitting at your desk looking stressed or always being on the phone), and also, crucially, may reveal how many bosses and managers simply don’t contribute to the bottom line.” ~Ed Zitron, Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future

“Originality is the lifeblood of creativity. Originality doesn’t mean that you don’t interweave existing. We were an organic system. We live in the root system of our culture and our history. We acknowledge that history. I acknowledge Beethoven and Mahler and Chopin. But originality is when you really have something to say, and you’re speaking directly from who you are, whatever that is. It gives strength to whatever it is. When I listen to music, for instance, people send me things, I can always tell if it’s something derivative or trying to be in the cookie mold of some existing thing or whether it just has an energy and a validity that is original.” ~Suzanne Ciani: Exploring the Creative Process, Invest Like The Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy [Ep. 239]

Last Set: 

“Part of the challenge of being a founder is always remembering that the idea you have is uniquely yours for a reason. It isn’t random. You’ve been tasked with making this idea happen and that’s a beautiful thing. Be a good steward of your assignment. Also know that the game is designed to take your heart out of it. A lot of ‘nos’. Many people will place their fears on you. Some of those people will be close to you. Keep going. ‘No’ is a powerful tool. If you think about it, you are doing something that people haven’t seen before; they shouldn’t understand it. ‘No’ sometimes is confirmation you are seeing an opportunity in the market. Remember your idea isn’t random. It’s yours for a reason. Don’t forget though that ideas are cheap. You’ve got to work it. Take a step each day. Fight for the best possible version of your idea. But don’t lose sight that you’ve been given this assignment. We are looking forward to seeing you execute it well.” ~Ryan Wilson

Food For Thought:

“The advice I like to give…is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” ~Chuck Close (@_nitch)

Food For Thought II:

“Sometimes I just want it to stop. Talk of COVID, looting, brutality. I lose my way. I become convinced that this ‘new normal’ is real life. Then I meet an 87-year-old who talks of living through polio, diphtheria, Vietnam protests and yet is still enchanted with life. He seemed surprised when I said that 2020 must be especially challenging for him. ‘No,’ he said slowly, looking me straight in the eyes. ‘I learned a long time ago to not see the world through the printed headlines, I see the world through the people that surround me. I see the world with the realization that we love big. Therefore, I just choose to write my own headlines: ‘Husband loves wife today.’ ‘Family drops everything to come to Grandma’s bedside.’ He patted my hand. ‘Old man makes new friend.’ His words collide with my worries, freeing them from the tether I had been holding tight. They float away. I am left with a renewed spirit and a new way to write my own headlines.” ~Andy Stanley

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