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Marked. 28all. Eya. *TK* The Warm-Up: “The quality of your self-talk determines the quality of your life.” ~Kpaxs The Core: “The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.” ~Naval Ravikant “The future is like heaven—everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.” ~James Baldwin “Find the smartest person who will take you seriously, and do whatever they ask.” ~Marc Randolph “The courage you don’t manifest is the anxiety you accumulate. Taking bolder risks is actually therapy.” ~Orange Book “It’s good manners to assume that, regardless of your achievements, you’re not interesting enough to keep someone engaged in an extended conversation without asking them questions.” ~Ayishat Akanbi “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy...Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ~Bob Marley “Whenever you feel like you’re back to square one, remind yourself of the fact that, as Hermann Hesse wrote, we’re often not going in circles, we’re going upwards, for the path is spiral, and we’ve already climbed many steps.” ~Dylan O’Sullivan “But always remember that while only 5% of the average meeting typically yields new insights, the other 95% is not a waste. View it as relationship building which brings future value.” ~Matt Reustle, An Investor Guide: Effective Meetings with Management Teams “The person who focuses on one task and sees it through to completion—even if they work in a somewhat slow or outdated manner—beats the endless optimizer who jumps from tool to tool and always hopes a new piece of technology will help them finish what they start.” ~James Clear “You don’t need to have a breakthrough technology to create wealth. Answer the phone. Show up on time. Respond quickly. Do what you said you’d do. There’s a lot of $ to be made giving a shit about customer[s]. If you want a competitive advantage, try doing the basics first.” ~Alex Hormozi “This is not a Western idea, but fathers and sons arrive at that relationship only by claiming that relationship: that is, by paying for it. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. (But to pursue this further carries us far beyond the confines of the present discussion.)” ~James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work “It’s far from perfect, and even an optimist could list hundreds of problems and injustices. A pessimist could do worse. But let me put it this way: As the world improves, our threshold for complaining drops. In the absence of big problems, people shift their worries to smaller ones. In the absence of small problems, they focus on petty or even imaginary ones. Most people – and definitely society as a whole – seem to have a minimum level of stress. They will never be fully at ease because after solving every problem the gaze of their anxiety shifts to the next problem, no matter how trivial it is relative to previous ones.” ~Morgan Housel, Minimum Levels of Stress Last Set: “Have started making daily checklists again because it’s crazy just how easily and invisibly we lower our expectations as the day goes on—lie to ourselves, in other words—thought is negotiable and our brain a masterful gaslighter, but when it’s written down there’s nowhere to hide.” ~Dylan O’Sullivan Food For Thought: “I have to believe that there is a way to teach hustle, and discipline that do not exclude compassion. As Black men, there is so much in this world that wants to break us. It is our job to give our children the tools to navigate the darkness. Our compassion is their lantern.” ~TK
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