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Just out here trying to perfect my griddy (dance)…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JD, MB, ET, LS, JW, SC, SC* The Warm-Up: “I learnt very early in my life that Friends are contagious. If you surround yourself with loyalty, ambition, kindness, generosity, honesty, optimism and empathy that’s what you become. There are a lot of things you have to ‘tolerate’ in life, but bad friends cannot be one.” ~Steven Bartlett The Core: “Reading stuff = paper gains. Doing stuff = capital gains.” ~Jack Butcher “Slowly connecting the dots makes you learn faster. Patience first, speed later.” ~Orange Book “Your goal is not to find love, but to remove all barriers which are preventing you from receiving it.” ~Rumi “Eventually…Execution beats luck. Consistency beats intensity. Curiosity beats smart. Kind beats clever. Together beats alone.” ~Shane Parrish “The most creative successful people tend to be expert questioners. They have mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking. And finding the answers everyone else is seeking.” ~Thibaut “If you can produce more of it with labor, capital, & technology, it’s a commodity. If it’s unique, irreplaceable, and brings you joy, it’s a scarcity. Sell commodities so you can buy scarcities.” ~Michael Saylor “DM. Cold email. Cold call. Turning up to an event. Writing in public. Sharing a convo as a podcast. Creating without permission. Proactive actions can snowball + change your life. Shoot your shot.” ~Bilal Zaidi “Some compliments just hit differently: ‘You inspire me.’ ‘I appreciate you.’ ‘I’m proud of you.’ ‘I enjoy your energy.’ ‘You make me feel safe.’ ‘You have a beautiful mind.’ ‘You’re a kind & loving soul.’ ‘I love how passionate you are.’” ~Vex King “Evolution works by mutation and selection. Innovation works by trial and error. Science works by conjecture and criticism. Free markets work by entrepreneurship and risk. All truth-seeking systems work roughly the same way.” ~Naval Ravikant “Life isn’t fair. That’s okay. Life isn’t impossible either. It’s just unfair. It is not your fault that things are harder for you, but you must not let it harden you. Don’t blame yourself, and don’t waste your energy blaming others. If you allow life’s injustices to define you, they will. But if you choose to define yourself, to believe in yourself and align yourself with others who believe in you, you will find a way to live the life you want.” ~Shellye Archambeau, Unapologetically Ambitious “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.” ~Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning “People assume that achieving a certain goal or winning the lottery will bring lasting happiness, [Tony Hsieh] said, but it rarely does. ‘Most of the frameworks for happiness conclude that there are four things required: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (meaning the depths of relationships) and being part of something bigger than yourself.’ To that end, he argued that building a culture based on these tenets would lead to Zappos long-term success.” Glenn Rikin, Tony Hsieh, Longtime Chief of Zappos, Is Dead at 46 “It takes time…All of it. All of it takes time. Unlearning, relearning. Forming habits that promote you. Having a relationship with yourself that feels genuine, real, and honorable. Understanding, knowing and trust. Waking your consciousness and awareness. Building a dream, a business or a passion that can only be respected by your consistency. Healing yourself, healing your body and building it. Creating wealth and abundance. Making a home, a partnership and a way of life. Connecting with yourself, your partner and the world at large. It all takes time. All of it takes time.” ~Matt Gottesman Last Set: “8 sentences I wish I read sooner…These hard times, this pain, these lessons—one day they’ll be your strength, your awareness, your blessings. Stop expecting honesty from people who lie to themselves. You’ll never look good trying to make someone look bad. Save your explanations for those that are determined to understand you—give your silence to those that are determined to misunderstand you. Your life is too short to be unhappy 5 days a week in exchange for 2 days of freedom. Anything you lose when you stand up for yourself, protect your boundaries and begin to grow, was not meant to stay. Don’t be upset about disrespect from people you don’t respect. If you are easily provoked, you are easily controlled—restraint is a superpower.” ~Steven Bartlett Food for Thought: “The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty. Perhaps this is why we get caught up in a never-ending cycle, jumping from one workout to the next, one diet to the next, one business idea to the next. As soon as we experience the slightest dip in motivation, we begin seeking a new strategy—even if the old one was still working. As Machiavelli noted, ‘Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.’” ~James Clear, Atomic Habits Food for Thought II: “These are moments in life that can be ripe for change and conversion. Each of us has had our own ‘stoppage,’ or if we haven’t yet, we will someday: illness, the failure of a marriage or a business, some great disappointment or betrayal. As in the Covid-19 lockdown, those moments generate a tension, a crisis that reveals what is in our hearts. In every personal ‘Covid,’ so to speak, in every ‘stoppage,’ what is revealed is what needs to change: our lack of internal freedom, the idols we have been serving, the ideologies we have tried to live by, the relationships we have neglected…This is a moment to dream big, to rethink our priorities — what we value, what we want, what we seek — and to commit to act in our daily life on what we have dreamed of.” ~Pope Francis, A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts
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