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Jubilee. #MCM…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JQ, PR, KT* The Warm-Up: “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” ~Sonia Ricotti The Core: “Accept neither criticism nor advice from those seeking comfort and conformity.” ~@AscendantPower “There are a bunch of smart people who never achieve anything because they think too much and don’t act enough.” ~Orange Book “Thanks boss, I’m good on the Juneteenth soul-food celebration. But let’s compare everyone’s salary on Monday. In the spirit of the season.” ~@(Neuro)Diversity “My big ass foot stepped on the line. I just seen the little screenshot, how close I was to ending they season off that shot, but it wasn’t in God’s plan.” ~Kevin Durant, on his final shot in regulation on Game 7 “If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed “The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what’s already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.” ~Al Ries & Jack Trout, Positioning “An era in the history of sports that will never be forgotten. I am honored to be part of this trio in mixed martial arts. There are 600+ active UFC fighters. Less than 30 of us are Africans. Yet 3 of us are Champions. More than AMAZING!!” ~Israel Adesanya “A fortress seems the safest. But isolation exposes you to more dangers than it protects you from—it cuts you off from valuable information, it makes you conspicuous and an easy target. Better to circulate among people, find allies, mingle.” ~Robert Greene, 48 Laws of Power “I’m successful because I don’t yearn for more. I have my wife and my boys and my freedom. I’m good. I have a unique appreciation of what I have because I already lost everything when my mother died. Now I have everything I need and everything I want.” ~Michael Batnick, Blink “Cultural waves are not understood well via intellectual exercises. Cultural shifts can’t be seen in Google analytics. You need people from the culture to explain why new behavior by niche groups will change consumer behavior and a market. Prestigious college education is useless.” ~Nait Jones “Only when you get to know someone well do you realize the best you can do in life is to become an expert at some things while remaining inept at others – and that’s if you’re good. There’s an important difference between someone whose specific talent should be celebrated vs. someone whose ideas should never be questioned. Eat the orange, throw away the peel.” ~Morgan Housel, Harder Than It Looks, Not As Fun as It Seems “Winning doesn’t negotiate. You won or you lost. It doesn’t care how hard you worked, it doesn’t care about extenuating circumstances that got in your way. You worked hard? That’s nice. I need someone who works hard, smart, fast, and a whole mess of other things. Get back in line and figure it out. Figure it out. Put your craziness to work. Innovate, don’t imitate. And above all, stop listening to everyone who tells you what to think. If they knew, they’d all be winners.” ~Tim Grover, W1NNING “Something I think a lot about in the companies that I look to invest in, is if they can escape competition. The companies that escape competition, ultimately, are the ones that get to a place where they’re incredibly profitable, they generate a lot of cash for their shareholders, they can create great experiences for their customers. But you’re not going to be able to escape competition overnight. There’s going to be a lot of investing that you have to do in sales and product in the engineering side, and more and more, you have competition, and they’re going to be doing the same thing. They’re going to be investing heavily.” ~Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor, The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish, Ep. 113. Last Set: “There are two types of talent: natural and chosen. Natural talent needs no explanation. Some people are just born better at certain things than others. While natural talent may win in the short term, it rarely wins in the long term. A lot of people who are naturally talented don’t develop work at getting better. Eventually, naturally talented people are passed by people who choose talent. How can you choose talent? When you focus all of your energy in one direction for an uncommonly long period of time, you develop talent. Results follow obsession.” ~Shane Parrish Food for Thought: “The thing that made you busy might have been the reputation you earned for being reliable. Ironically, that very busy-ness might destroy your reputation. That’s one reason that so many service providers stumble once they begin to gain traction. There are two things you can do before the crisis hits: First, say ‘no.’ A lot. The gigs you would have taken when you were struggling might not be the gigs you should take now. Your reputation for reliability earns you more trust, and that trust gets you invited to work with better clients and on better projects. The cost (benefit) of that is that you’ll need to turn down opportunities that you would have been willing to take on just a little while ago. Second, tell the truth. It’s hard at first, particularly since our self-conception might have been built around independence and invulnerability. But being reliable doesn’t mean being perfect. It means being clear. Two mottos that might help: ‘You’ll pay a lot, but you’ll get more than you paid for.’ And ‘Our secret is that we don’t lie to get the project.’” ~Seth Godin, Busy (and reliable) :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. 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