thoughts; both mine and other's

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before anything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

To be early is on time, to be on time is late, and to be late is dead.

Hindsight is not 20/20. Our biases shape our actual working memory and our understanding of the factors that actually influenced the past is limited. Thousands of small “near misses” create reality we perceive and inhabit – almost getting hit by car, almost being stuck in traffic, tiny fluctuations in peoples’ mood affecting their behavior, etc.

I bully myself cuz I make me do what I put my mind to.

Why accelerate the path to enlightenment? It’s a hell of a journey. Perhaps we should continue to pursue it, though not so quickly.

Marketing is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money .

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Marriage might be all about selecting properly.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

The sexes were meant to be complementary, not adversarial.

Spaceships don’t come equipped with a rear view mirror.

Unfortunately even experience is finite; we cannot experience everything (unless we upload our consciousness to the internet some day in the distant future).

Nobody looks good all the time – in case you’ve forgotten (I know I had), this is normal.

The mind and body are one.

Chronic resentment is like poking yourself in the eye while intending for someone else to go blind.

Why accelerate the path to enlightenment? It’s a heck of a journey.

Using the “so what” method when coming to conclusions

• If we do this, then this will happen – “so what?”
• Well, then this other thing will be affected – “so what?”
• We won’t actually be able to meet our goals – “so what?”
• I won’t get my bonus – “so what?”
• I won’t feel valued… you get the point. You can continue the “so what” method ad infinitum, and it usually reveals the root drivers of a problem/issue.

Work expands to fill the time available for completion.

MECE = mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive. Try to make mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive recommendations.

Translation: Your recommendations should be “either this or that” and should encompass all potential ways of solving a problem. For example, when trying to increase profit, we either increase revenues or cut costs, that’s it.

If you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, you might be the sucker.

No risk = no future.

Your dreams are possible.

Apparently, those who speak loudly are perceived as more authoritative. Similarly, those who speak more quickly are perceived as more intelligent, regardless of whether or not what they’re saying is actually sensible.

“It seems that you’re feeling anxious… is this true? If so, how come? If not, what are you feeling?

You have the power to continuously edit, interpret and retell your own story.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Happiness might be the absence of striving for happiness.

I am never out of the fight. You will never outwork me.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope of having a better past.

We’re not THAT logical, we just think we are.

69% of self-made entrepreneurs in the United States have worked for other companies for at least 10 years.

Procrastination is actively avoiding things that need to get done. Waiting is actively preparing for things that will happen.

What appears to be the problem, isn’t.

What appears to be the solution, isn’t.

What appears to be real or impossible, isn’t.

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford

Too much LSD might permanently crack your mirror of reality – Paul Chek

Vagal tone is stimulated AND relaxed while singing

In a study of art pieces, the best pieces always came form the artists that produced the most pieces, not the least amount of very focused pieces

Hippocampus = memories. Amygdala = emotions.

Two is one and one is none. If it breaks, you’re f*cked.

Play is defined by having no other purpose.

Risk is defined as an irreversible negative outcome.

Love is nature’s psychotherapy.

Use a timer to wake up, instead of a specific time. This ensures you sleep enough.

Never tell me the odds.

Tell your story, not your pitch.

Breathe into your balls. Come into your body.

Don’t expect miracles from one single source – > in almost anything.

One day soon, there will be an “Apple” of cannabis companies.

Multi-sensory environments improve learning.

YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE ANYTHING FIGURED OUT BY ANY AGE.

Consider re-branding yourself.

Consider giving blood.

Pointing establishes a connection with the audience.

Try to be rich in moments, not only rich in money.

24. 2 is even. 4 is even. 24 is even. 4 is twice 2. 2 is half of 4.

Sometimes numbers are meaningful…sometimes they’re just numbers.

1+1 =2. The answer lies in the question. Almost like saying, “Here is my wife, I married her.”

Be your own first customer.

Too much LSD might crack your mirror permanently.

Any regrets? Too few to mention.

Maybe we’re all here to teach and to empower. Maybe we’re just a bacterial host.

We are gone tomorrow anyways.

The second you are proud is the day you stop working.

To be rich in moments, not only in money.

The competition is the work.

Empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

“A question is an opportunity to tell them what you want them to hear, not an opportunity to answer their question.”

Hope is not a strategy.

Act first, then obtain confidence. The action of going to the gym brings with it the discipline of going to the gym.

We’re usually more disappointed by the things we didn’t do than by the things we did do.

Trying to “become” happy is like trying to “become” angry. They’re transient.

Don’t think about washing today’s dishes, yesterday’s dishes and tomorrow’s dishes. Would we ever get anything done if we thought about all the dishes we’d need to wash across our life? We haven’t even used them yet. Don’t worry too much about the future or dwell too long on the past.

Progress not perfection.

Satisfaction is a death blow.

Speak to yourself like a gentle grandma, instead of like an asshole.

We tell ourselves about 2000 stories a day.

 

 

I heard the following recently, “When you write, write only for yourself. Write only what you yourself need to hear. You will naturally attract those that like your work and shun those that are disinterested in it.”

What is it that I need to hear?

What are some of my greatest fears?

One of them would be to live a “wasted” life. To endlessly waste time. To squander my resources and relationships, only to one day wake up and regret every decision I’ve ever made.

What is the path towards not-regretting one’s decisions/life? Perhaps the following:

We need to believe in our ideas before anyone else does. We need to think about our ideas and believe in them while everyone else thinks you’re crazy.

You need to believe with so much conviction that things can be other than they are, that the negative comments of the nay-sayers will just roll off your back.

Honestly, you have to be a little crazy to think that you can take an idea, apply some effort and move that concept from your brain into the real world.

So what? Go ahead. Be crazy.

Should you ignore all of the nay-sayers? No – because some of them likely have some good points.

The balance between finding who to listen to and finding who to ignore is tricky. It’s a constant work-in-progress.

How do we balance extreme, delusional self-belief with trying to not being ridiculous?

Well,  as an example, if you have 2k in assets and for your first venture you take out 250k in debt, that’s more than 100 times your assets. A bit ridiculous.

If you’ve never made a dollar on your own before, perhaps you should start smaller.

Don’t stop trying until there’s no more breath left in your body. One day, you will get there. One day, your dreams will become a reality.

Keep pushing.

What is your personal brand in 2 to 5 words?

What keeps you busy outside of work? Great question at networking events.

200mg seems to be the efficacious dose of L-theanine.

When is the last time you cried tears of joy?

The best way to hit a bullseye is to use a machine gun.

“What you are looking for is the one that is looking”

Good things come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.

Life, liberty and the expansion of happiness.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Seems that those with nothing to lose and nothing to prove perform very well.

Focus on the problem. Focus on asking the right questions about the problem, before coming up with a solution.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

“Just” and “only” are dangerous words.