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When Kobe Bryant said his insane level of confidence came from knowing he’d done all he could to prepare, it taught me that anytime I’m nervous it means I didn’t prepare enough…28all. Eya. *JP, KW, JD* The Warm-Up: “You can manufacture luck through volume. More attempts equals more chances of getting lucky. Keep showing up. Putting up shots. Your ‘lucky’ moment will come.” ~Iman Gadzhi The Core: “Solve big problems, they pay better.” ~Codie Sanchez “God I hate when this happens – hiring doesn’t ‘solve’ lack of product market fit.” ~Michael Seibel “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt “Before: You’re the average of the company you keep. Now: You’re the average of the content that influences you.” ~Kunal Shah “Those who genuinely want you to win and believe in you even when you’re down are your people, everyone else is just your context.” ~Anu Atluru “Rich people buy time. Poor people buy things. Ambitious people buy skills. Visionary people buy opportunities. Lazy people buy distractions. Wise people buy freedom.” ~Harsh Goenka “I believed that I could win. And because of that belief, I put in the work necessary to do it…There’s nothing magical about believing. It simply motivates you to put in the effort to make happen what you believe is possible.” ~Jimmie James, Playing From The Rough “People don’t have short attention spans. They have short ‘is this worth my time?’ spans. Podcasts are more popular than ever and Netflix’s only competition is sleep. If you can’t capture attention in 10-30 seconds, your writing (for all most people care) doesn’t exist.” ~Dan Koe “Improving your life is simple, you move to an environment where you will be effortlessly surrounded by people who are stronger, smarter, wealthier, better than you; you get rid of your ego and actively seek to learn from them; and as the years pass, things will just connect.” ~Orange Book “On some real shit. It’s fine if people are more successful than you cause they just won the genetic lottery. Got a few more lucky breaks etc. etc. They have actual unfairness of contextual privilege. But don’t let it be cause somebody out worked you. Go get yours. Maximize whatever context you in!! Too many of us compare ourselves against individuals with unfair advantages. On some real shit, f**k em. Call out structural issues, yes. It’s needed. But in your hearts of hearts, compare yourself against yourself. Whatever you’ve been bestowed with, maximize it.” ~Joe Holder “I think the last thing, especially on the investment team, is we’re really focused on being able to develop and build our own talent. I think you go to every investment firm; you ask them, ‘What’s the most important thing that you do?’ ‘Well, it’s the people.’ Well, if you believe that, you better be good at developing and building people, because if that’s not true, you’re basically outsourcing talent development to other people, and you’re hoping to maybe poach them later down the line.” ~Kareem Zaki, Small Ideas Attract Competition on Invest Like the Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy Last Set: “The key thing to develop over time is, what are you going to be incredibly awesome at? There’s a great quote I discovered reading a Pat Riley book 20 years ago where he’s quoting Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Dead. He says ‘you don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one who does what you do.’ You want to develop strengths that are unique or world-class over time that become your competitive advantage, and you want to double down on those as much as possible and find companies and roles that leverage them to your maximum potential…” ~Keith Rabois Food For Thought: “The collective obsession with community-building, self-care, social validation, and a growing quest to make everyone happy all the time is ruining sports. Over the last few years adults have increasingly turned sports and athletics into a participation parade. We’ve created a bizarre parallel universe where everyone’s an athlete, but nobody’s competing. Every week, more grown-ass adults are playing dress-up in expensive compression gear. Take a look at New York’s West Side Highway or San Francisco’s Crissy Field Beach on any given evening and you’ll see 500 pairs of $250 running shoes that will never taste real competition. Too many adults have forgotten what makes sports special in the first place. In our rush to make athletics accessible to everyone, to sand down every rough edge and celebrate everyone for showing up, we’ve created a culture that actively runs from the very thing that gives sports their power. Sports are competitive games. Games have scores and stakes. Most sports are zero-sum. A winner necessitates losers, and excellence requires comparison. It’s an unforgiving, beautifully simple dynamic.” ~Jay Drain, Jr. MAKE ADULTS COMPETITIVE AGAIN
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