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“If you’re in a place in life you don’t want to be, it’s up to you to make it better. To reframe it by focusing on the positive, and approaching it with enthusiasm. In the end, your positivity and enthusiasm will contribute to creating the outcome you’re after. Once you apply this mindset to all aspects of your life, you corner fear. Fear basically has nowhere to go.”
TB12
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I wanted to share my new favorite way to tie shoes (especially slip on shoes that have laces). It’s called the Berluti knot. This video is the best explainer on how to do it. The way I think about it is typical bunny ears method but you bring the end of the strings with it. The end product looks good and it’s pretty simple to do.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In order to truly master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field and border on religious.
In my experience, this passion helps keep you motivated to keep working at your craft.
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
A lot of success in life is just putting yourself in a position for good things to happen to you.
+ Be reliable
+ Avoid drama
+ Help other people win
+ Take care of your body
+ Take care of your mind
+ Live below your means
+ Treat your job as if it matters
+ Take care of your relationships
Simple, but not easy.
Author Nassim Taleb on why earned knowledge and being in the details is superior:
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder.
Be prepared, ask for help when you need it, and help others.
Work harder because people care and your work matters.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be useful