🤔 Morning thoughts (November 20 - 26)

Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.

Themes of the week: risk, leadership, courage, discomfort, humanness, failure, success, dissatisfaction, randomness

Sunday - November 26, 2023

“Taking no risks will be your biggest risk. You have to risk failure to succeed. You have to risk heartbreak to love. You have to risk criticism for the applause. You have to risk the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. If you live avoiding risk, you’re risking missing out on life.”

Steven Bartlett , The Diary of a CEO

Like luck, risk is part of living a life you engage with and have agency on. Don’t be afraid to live on that edge. 

Saturday - November 25, 2023

"The great leaders in this world are always the least rational among us. They exist at the second level of awareness. Charismatic leaders have a natural ability to bring people into their delusion" 

Scott Adams, God's Debris

Can you obsessively believe in what to others seems impossible or unachievable? The strength of your belief and the single mindedness of your approach will dictate your chances of success.

Friday - November 24, 2023

“Traveling great distances requires the courage to seek out the right kinds of discomfort, the capacity to absorb the right information, and the will to accept the right imperfections.”

Adam Grant, Hidden Potential 

Knowing what’s right for you, is as as important as knowing what the next step to take is.

Thursday - November 23, 2023

“The real power of the truly successful person is coming out of their genuine attunement to the humanness of the other person.”

David R. Hawkins, M.D./Ph.D. , Success Is for You

Empathy is a superpower. Master it and you’ll have mastered yourself and your relationships. It’s not easy and you’ll have to be able to tune it out sometimes, but that’s part of the process.

Wednesday - November 22, 2023

"Ultimately, life is a sentence of failures, punctuated only by the briefest of successes." 

James Altucher, Choose Yourself!

When you see failure as a normal part of life you understand how to deal with it and move on. That’s when success finds you.

Tuesday - November 21, 2023

"Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose." 

Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Dissatisfaction is a not a negative. It’s the part of the process where you still can’t see the end as clearly. Embrace it and enjoy its push toward your goal. 

Monday - November 20, 2023

"Think of life as like a criminal investigation: a beautifully linear and logical narrative when viewed in retrospect, but a fiendishly random, messy and wasteful process when experienced in real time." 

Rory Sutherland, Alchemy

Don’t look for beauty and perfection in the process. Look for progress, change, and motion.