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Grateful…28all. Eya. *AM* The Warm-Up: “Contrarian leaders listen, collaborate, and consider multiple viewpoints before making judgments and decisions, just like everyone else. But as contrarians, they begin their analysis from a different starting place. They don’t reject conventional wisdom as much as they prefer to consider what the future might hold before accepting what the present might teach…The best leaders are contrarians at heart. They are faster than others in seeing where things are going because they work backward from the future. They don’t swim against the tide to annoy or frustrate others. They simply find a strong current worthy of the challenge to master it.” ~Randall Stutman The Core: “Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.” ~Navajo Proverb “Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.” ~Naval Ravikant “They may not like it, but they can’t stop it. What God has for you will get to you.” ~Tony Gaskins “Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it’s stormy now doesn’t mean that you aren’t headed for sunshine.” ~Unknown “What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.” ~Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World “Winning leads to leveling up. Leveling up leads to harder opponents. Harder opponents leads to losing. Losing leads to learning. Learning leads to winning. Just depends what part of the cycle you’re in.” ~Alex Hormozi “Oversharing is how you leak the energy, privacy is protection. Stop telling people more than what they need to know. The less you reveal, the more people can wonder. Forget attention. Move in silence. Live peacefully. Vibrate higher. Only speak when it’s time to say checkmate.” ~@TheOracleReadsU “You have to believe that anything can happen. You never know how things are going to change. You’ve got to be ready when they change. And you have to be prepared to get lucky, so if you’ve done a lot of prep and the big event comes along, you’re prepared for it.” ~Scott Bessent, Macro Maven (EP.415). Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry w/ Ted Seides “Humans have access to so much information, they don’t necessarily know what to do with it, because they are not cultivating the art of decision making in the ways that they could. And I’m concerned about what these changes in human consciousness could lead to, because we’re also in a place where it’s more and more easy for people to do extremely destructive things…So, I feel that the moment to cultivate human consciousness and human decision making and human wisdom is now more than any other time, because the stakes are so high.” ~Josh Waitzkin “My husband said something a few years ago that I often quote: ‘Eighty percent of everything that is true and beautiful can be experienced on any 10‑minute walk. Even in the darkest and most devastating times, love is nearby if you know what to look for. It does not always appear at first to be lovely but instead may take the form of a hot mess or a snoring old dog or someone you have sworn to never, ever forgive (for a possibly very good reason, if you ask me). But mixed in will also be familiar signs of love: wings, good‑hearted people, cats (when they are in the right mood), a spray of wildflowers, a cup of tea.’” ~Anne Lamott, Anne Lamott Believes That Love Is What Our Soul Is Made of, and For Last Set: “Life gets better once you understand that fixating on the goal leads to the wrong process. Focus on health, you will get fitness. Focus on freedom, you will get wealth. Focus on becoming a better person, you will get love. Focus on being more useful, you will get opportunities. Don’t pursue what you want directly: step back, play the long-term game, have the patience to do the harder things, that’s how life gets better.” ~Orange Book Food For Thought: “The federal budget is an old bridge. Seems to work just fine. Does its job. Every day there’s more strain but it’s hard to see the pressure growing. So no one acts. We’ll fix it later. No will to put financial and political capital to it today. Those warning of problems have never been right. Works fine. All is quiet. Until it’s not. One random day, there’s the mayday call. Not nearly enough time to act. Can only send out a warning cry. Too late. It snaps. Collateral damage everywhere, especially among the worse off. Will take decades to fix. After the fact the pundits will say how inevitable it was. If only we had maintained it better. If only we hadn’t strained it so. But once the ship’s in motion, it’s too hard to stop.” ~John Arnold
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