Quotes
“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth” —Epicurus.
“If life sucks or feels boring, what’s missing is randomness. Stop being so predictable. Wear a weird freaking shirt. Go for coffee with a stranger. Take a different route to work. Say random stuff in a meeting.” — Tim Denning.
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property. But as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy”— Seneca.
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou.
"Waiting doesn't get you closer to success; starting does." - Teronie J. Donaldson (yep, that's me, cool, right?)
Notes/Observations
"A sale always happens. Either you sell the other person on your solution or they sell you on their excuse.”
What is it that I am being sold - opinions, ideas, or bad beliefs.
Articles
Watched
Book of the Week
“The 33 Strategies of War” by Robert Greene
My biggest Takeaway
To become a true strategist, you must become aware of the weakness and illnesses that can take hold of the mind. You must declare war on yourself to make yourself move forward.
Strategy
(Strategy from writer and entrepreneur Tim Denning)
If you haven’t had your face ripped off then you’re not even trying
Making money is about losing money.
Wait, what?
That’s right. You heard me. If you haven’t lost a bunch of money over the years then you haven’t tried hard enough. You’re supposed to have bad investments, start side hustles that fail, and lose your life savings on some random business.
When I want to see if someone has what it takes to make decent cash, I ask one question: “what massive failure have you had recently?”
If there’s no valid answer, then I know they’re probably not going to make it. Get this in your head, so you don’t end up dead: get your face ripped off.
Losing money is the education you need to make more money over the next 5 years.
Small bets. Mini-experiments. Calculated risks. Asymmetric upside.
Question
“What massive failure have you had recently?” What did you learn from it, and how can you improve?