Tom Schmidt

Challenge yourself when life is easy, so you'll be ready when life is hard."

QUOTE OF NOTE

Joan Didion on fully embracing life:

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To... See more

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Reads with Ravi

@readswithravi

“If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.”

Men need to solve problems and feel like they are useful to their tribe. Taking that from successful people away is torture

Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week...

You should attempt things that are difficult enough to guarantee some early embarrassment, but important enough that long-term regret is unlikely.

Trying something difficult will usually make you look foolish or inexperienced. That’s fine. That's the cost of learning.

But if it's important to you, then you'll work through the early failures and —... See more

Russian, we say, “Those who don’t take risks don’t drink champagne.”