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Dem a wish bad fi yuh, but Watch Yah / None of dem can stop yuh from prospah…#Sizzla…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *WH, AJ* The Warm-Up: “Your gut can’t lie to you. It can be wrong, but it can’t lie. Your mind on the other hand can be wrong and it can lie to you.” ~Farbood The Core: “Ego is just overdressed insecurity.” ~Quincy Jones “Corporations do not make decisions. People within corporations make decisions.” ~Kpaxs ““Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick.” ~Hippocrates “Confused minds make everything sound complicated. Clear minds make everything sound simple.” ~Orange Book “You become much more talented once you stop believing in talent and start believing in self-discipline.” ~Orange Book “I wish more young people dreamed about being inventors, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs than influencers.” ~Lex Fridman “They’ll say it’s boring, but what they really mean is that it’s too hard, the ratio of work to pleasure is too high.” ~David Foster Wallace “May you all exhibit grace in your building, peace in your becoming, worth in your value and love in who you already are.” ~Matt Gottesman “Hearing experiences and watching videos can help with the basics, but you cant truly learn something without getting your own hands dirty—be it coding, investing or even driving a car.” ~Khushboo Verma “Secret to success I’ll tell anyone: Find a niche that you are *really* good at, and genuinely enjoy… -Go all-in on that. -Hit it over & over again. It’s a win for you, and it’s a win for anyone you do business with.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “One of the things I’ve learned is never let the hype get to you. Between press and biz trips that aren’t on your dollar, very easy to let hubris win but deep down you know if you’re doing the work or not. Focus on the work, everything else is just a relic of past achievements.” ~Joe Holder “Don’t just tell your success stories. Share the moments when you got it wrong, when you faced rejection, when you disappointed yourself, when you lost your way. Censored stories don’t nourish us. They don’t illuminate the path. Your true story can set you & someone else free.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “6. You gain confidence after doing something hard - not before. Too many people never try hard things because they think confidence is a precondition when, in reality, it’s a side effect. 7. Promote your work shamelessly. It’s your job to communicate the value and impact of your work ―no one else is going to do it for you. h/t @SahilBloom.” ~Zain Kahn “Some forms of meditation teach how to accept your negative thoughts and feelings, and recognize that they’re passing mental events. That’s a great tool. But houses don’t get built with individual tools. No carpenter comes to a job with just a hammer. You’ve got a whole toolbox. So why limit ourselves to one individual tool? That’s the big idea I’m trying to convey.” ~Clay Skipper, How to Overcome the Negative Voice in Your Head “Our fullest, healthiest, and most satisfying lives as individuals are lived in communities where virtue, righteousness, and wisdom are followed, made evident and embedded. Psalms 1 reads: ‘Happy is the person who did not follow in the counsel of the wicked, and did not stand in the path of sinners, and did not dwell in the camp of sinners, and did not dwell in the camp of fools. Their delight is in the law of the Lord’…Each of us has the ability to choose community every day and to live that choice out loud. Each of us can play a part in birthing a beloved community…” ~Rabbi Nancy Kasten “And Warren Buffett wrote this amazing article in the 1970s that is by far the best thinking I’ve ever read on why inflation is bad for the stock market. And the reason it is bad for the stock market, and you kind of go back to the DuPont formula, is that inflation, let’s just say everybody just takes price increases in line with whatever their input costs are. So their margins stay the same, but inflation ultimately inflates your asset base, and so that depresses your ROE or your ROIC. So thereby your expected return goes down. And it’s even worse because at some level, what you really care about as an equity investor is the gap between the ROE or the ROIC of your portfolio, your equity portfolio, relative to the yield on government bonds. So that obviously gets way worse in an inflationary environment. That actually gives me a great deal of comfort about secular growth and technology, and I think it’s probably one reason I am right now as bullish...” ~Gavin Baker - The Cyclone Under the Surface on Invest Like the Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy Last Set: “Bet on yourself. Most people aren’t willing to bet on themselves for the next 5, 10, or 15+ years; the in between time that literally tests your patience, resilience and faith in the bigger picture; in your vision in yourself. Betting on yourself is already telling the world who you are and what you stand for. From there it’s all a matter of movement, time and patience. Betting on yourself is getting to know who you are before everyone else gets to know you. It’s willing to see a vision for yourself before anyone else understands it. Betting on yourself may be long, tiresome, strenuous, and uncomfortable at times. That is because it is testing your patience, resiliency, character, relationships and even your sanity. Betting on yourself is remembering that all of those moments are simply tests…illusions to see if you can simply continue to trust in yourself; training so you can handle all the rewards that come with much bigger responsibilities.” ~Matt Gottesman Food For Thought: [Former] President Obama, at the Nelson Mandela memorial service, First National Bank Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa: “Mandela taught us the power of action, but he also taught us the power of ideas; the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those who you agree with, but also those who you don’t agree with. He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper’s bullet... And he learned the language and the customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depend upon his. Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions. He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history… He changed laws, but he also changed hearts... Madiba’s passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate a heroic life. But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection. With honesty, regardless of our station or our circumstance, we must ask: How well have I applied his lessons in my own life? It’s a question I ask myself, as a man and as a President. We know that, like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation... Michelle and I are beneficiaries of that struggle. But in America, and in South Africa, and in countries all around the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not yet done... South Africa shows we can change, that we can choose a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes.” :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. To the extent someone felt compelled to spread the love and this was forwarded to you, you can sign up for the newsletter here.
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