Tom Schmidt
@neverbeneedy
Tom Schmidt
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
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Poet, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner Paul Valéry encourages us not to imitate the acts of great people, but to carry their spirit forward:
"All great undertakings do not consist of doing again what others have done before, but in recapturing the spirit that went into what they did—and would have done differently in a different age."
"All great undertakings do not consist of doing again what others have done before, but in recapturing the spirit that went into what they did—and would have done differently in a different age."
3-2-1: How to find clarity, the value of being humbled, and the path to building resilience
There comes a point where a person goes from "old enough to know better" to "too old to know better."
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance
. When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.
Elon Musk
- Develop non-replicable skills. Build relationships. Create original ideas. Navigate ambiguity. Lead through chaos. These remain valuable as everything else demonetizes.
- Prepare psychologically for post-scarcity. The hardest part won’t be material Abundance... it’ll be finding meaning when basic needs are solved. Start asking now: What would you do
Post-Capitalism: The End of Money
John Steinbeck on ignoring the finish line and starting:
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”
Brain Food: An Expensive Emotion
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