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Light attracts bugs. Success attacks haters. That’s okay. Keep shining… #OrangeBook. Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JD, JW, JG* The Warm-Up: “You can fake a lot of things. You can fake being happy, you can fake being successful, you can fake having a great relationship, you can fake confidence and knowledge and just about everything else. But you can’t fake Winning…Because even if you can fool absolutely everyone else…you still know the truth.” ~Tim Grover (Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant’s athletic trainer) The Core: “Build distribution, then build whatever you want.” ~Jack Butcher “Not everything that was done to us was about us.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Muscles are damaged in the gym. Nourished in the kitchen. Built in bed.” ~Dan Go “All your relationships improve once you accept people for who they are.” ~Matthew Kobach “You are rich if you can quit your job anytime. You are wealthy if you can find peace anytime.” ~Orange Book “Your ability to stomach massive volatility is why you have this arbitrage opportunity in the first place.” ~Erik Torenberg “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” ~Romans 8:28 (KJV) “Prediction depends on events outside your control. Creation depends on events within your control. Don’t guess about the future. Shape it.” ~James Clear “Some people make watching and critiquing your life a full-time job instead of developing their lives. Don’t take the bait of constant debate.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “There are still people who think anything that involves diversity is about charity. The idea that underrepresented means underqualified or under skilled shows how far we have yet to go.” ~Arlan Hamilton “As much as you may want to ‘chase a dream’ the market still dictates what is viable and what isn’t, so plan accordingly. The key is to figure out where it is going and plan for that not simply where it currently is…” ~Joe Holder “Saying no saves you time in the future. Saying yes costs you time in the future. No is like a time credit. You can spend that block of time in the future. Yes is like a time debt. You have to repay that commitment at some point. No is a decision. Yes is a responsibility.” ~James Clear “For many people it’s good that they’re extra busy. They’re not good thinkers, so you get more out of them. But if you’re a person of good cognition, you can learn a lot more if you put your mind to it. I don’t think there’s any substitute for just sitting and thinking.” ~Charlie Munger “As I got older, I realized: 1/ lost money can be found; lost time is lost forever 2/ learning to learn, and changing yourself is a superpower 3/ you are not your job 4/ networking is about giving 5/ best teacher is your last mistake 6/ good manners as important as good education.” ~Vala Afshar “Said another way: Conviction comes from digging and finding gold, and knowing it’s gold. Foolishness comes from digging and finding pyrite and thinking it’s gold. The conviction comes from clearly seeing what you have unearthed not what you have impulsively concluded you have.” ~Paul Enright “Now is the time for offering fatherly advice…but I’ll have to spare you that—since I guess I’m nobody’s father except my own. Perhaps that’s the advice to give you: Be your own father, young man. And remember, the world is possibility if only you’ll discover it. Last of all, leave the Mr. Nortons alone, and if you don’t know what I mean, think about it. Farewell.” ~Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Last Set: “The theory of evolution claims that ‘only the strong shall survive’. Maybe so, maybe so. But the theory of competition says, ‘Just because they’re the strong doesn’t mean they can’t get their assess kicked.’ That’s right. See, what every long shot, come from behind, underdog will tell you is this: The other guy may in fact be the favorite [and] the odds may be stacked against you. Fair enough. But what the odds don’t know is this isn’t a math test. This is a completely different kind of test. One where passion has a funny way of trumping logic. So, before you step up to the starting line, before the whistle blows and the clock starts ticking just remember out here the results don’t always add up. No matter what the stats say and the experts may think and the commentators may have predicted, when the race is on, all bets are off…” ~@mentality Food for Thought: 2021 Notre Dame Commencement: Jimmy Dunne’s Address…Worth every.single.second. “…At such moments there isn’t time to reflect and figure out what you believe. All you have is your foundation and you’re about to find out if it’s a good one. If you can get through, it’s going to be on the strength of what you have already. How we conducted ourselves would define who we were and what we stood for. If we were not honorable then we stood for nothing. So our attitude was, we’re going to make brave decisions. If we fail, we fail. If we lose everything, we lose everything. But that’s what we’re going to do. Especially for the children of our friends. They had lost the person in their lives who would fight for them. So from now on, we would fight for them…” ~Jimmy Dunne More Tings (Click the link to explore further): A few people have asked what 28all / Eya mean…check it out: here
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