Define Your Way of Life

"But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."

This is my favorite insight from the letter: Identify how you want to live, not what you want to achieve.

So often people focus all their energy on the summits—but complet

"I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific a

‘Let go of certainty,' says author and journalist Tony Schwartz. ‘The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.'

TO BUILD CONVICTION, WE MUST EMBRACE DOUBT. German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said that ‘doubt grows with knowledge'. And Aristotle is said to have once quipped, ‘the more you know, the more you know you don't know'. Whereas some might claim to have all of the right answers, pioneering leaders instead value asking the right questio

When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.

from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

“What gets measured gets done,” Peter Drucker once famously said. But the terrible thing is that this often translates to the only things getting done being the things easily measured. And much of the richness, meaning, and fulfilment in life come from the things that can’t be measured easily

Everything has its season,
all exists in oscillation.