Tiny Thoughts

Borrowed wisdom breaks under pressure because you haven't earned it.

You're trusting someone else's compression without knowing what created it.

Earned wisdom, on the other hand, holds up because it's rooted in your actual experience. You know when it works, why it works, when to ignore it and when to bend it because you created the compression.

Not everyone runs on your clock. Your urgent isn't their urgent.

While you're optimizing every minute toward specific goals, others might be optimizing for presence, relationships, or balance.

The key is protecting your time without demonizing theirs.

Author Haruki Murakami on the plateau of talent:

“They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great

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.

We're wired for novelty, but life rewards repetition.

Good ideas are rare. When you find something that works, you've found gold. But instead of mining it, we go looking for more gold.

We'd rather have ten ideas that might work than one that does.

Dr. Julie Gurner on beating the odds:

“It's a lot easier than you think to 'beat the odds' because the odds are based on average people. Show up and elevate.”

Everyone searches for opportunities while running from problems, missing that they're the same thing.

Problems aren't obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity.

A lesson I need to learn: It's ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself.

Does the world happen to you, or do you happen to the world?

Most people wait for permission to solve problems. The subtle message they send is "I don't care enough to solve this on my own. Tell me what to do." The world happens to them.

High agency people are different. They care. And because they care, they solve problems without being told. They