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That SotoMethod tho :) :) …28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ~C. JoyBell C. The Core:
“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.” ~Neil Strauss “Who knows you is more important than who you know. Build a brand.” ~James Clear “People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.” ~Moliere “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, in order to gain what he cannot lose.” ~Jim Elliott “Consistency is a love language…it separates the opportunists from the committed.” ~Matt Gottesman “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward “Doing what everyone else thinks you should is a sure path to the same results as everyone else.” ~Shane Parrish “Effort is undervalued. Practice is underestimated. Professionalism is under-practiced.” ~Anthony Pompliano “If you want to impact the world, then have good ideas, articulate them well, without ulterior motive, and being them into reality.” ~Naval Ravikant “When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” ~Baltasar Gracian “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You cant make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you cant stop them.” ~Andy Warhol “Success is inevitable if you have the mental strength to persist despite being rejected and failing over and over again. There are tons of people who were neither the smartest nor the most talented, who got the life they wanted and much more, simply because they were resilient.” ~Orange Book “The art of project management includes the dance between velocity and possibility. If you describe the outcome with specificity and remove as many variables as possible, you’ll get the work done with more speed, higher reliability and less cost. That velocity, though, might encourage us to recognize that all sorts of options are available. There are countless chances to make the project better and to find new opportunities. Exploring the possibilities in moments of high velocity almost certainly ensures that costs will increase, reliability will be impacted and you’ll miss deadlines. That’s because possibility is the art of being willing to be wrong. It’s exploration. It’s far easier to explore on foot than it is on a high-speed train. The best time to explore is before you scale your investments, your commitments and the size of the team. We seek both velocity and possibility, but not at the same time.” ~Seth Godin, Velocity and possibility Last Set: “Our investment in reading changes the book because the book has changed us. ... If books are merely a means of transferring information, then perhaps, yes, a book is a waste of time. If a summary of its thesis and key points could be presented in a brief article or Substack post, why not just save the hours and read the Substack post? All the more if the information is outdated or questionable for one reason or another. But that mistakes what a book is for. A book is a tool. It’s a machine for thinking. And ‘all machines,’ as Thoreau once said, ‘have their friction.’ The time it takes to engage with ideas—whether factual or fictional, emotional or intellectual, accurate or inaccurate, efficient or inefficient—might strike some as a drag. But the time given to working through those ideas, adopting and adapting, developing or discarding, changes our minds, changes us. It’s not about the wisdom we glean. It’s about what wisdom we grow.” ~Joel Miller [Brain Food, Mar 24, 2024 | #569] Food For Thought: “While we naturally understand that writing is a good way to share ideas with others, we under-appreciate just how much good writing helps us think about an idea ourselves. Writing is not only a means of communication, it enables us to practice reasoning. Writing forces you to slow down, focus, and think deeply. In a world where attention is fragmented into seconds, thinking becomes more reactive than reasoned. Only when [we] take time to play with our ideas can we hope to think about them substantially. Writing requires sticking with something a little longer and developing a deeper understanding. Writing is the process by which we realize we do not understand and the process by which we come to understand.” ~Farnum Street, The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught: How to Think Better
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