No. 105 - “How To Guarantee a Life of Misery” By Charlie Munger.
How to be miserable:
1. Ingesting chemicals in an effort to alter mood or perception
2. Envy others
3. Resentment others or situations
4. Be unreliable
5. Don’t learn from others. Only learn from the experiences in your life.
6. Do things you know will make you miserable
7. When life knocks you down, stay down
No. 103. Taking the long view (on people)
No 102. “Exploring Our Unrealities” full video in link.
No. 100 - My Big Three Leadership Focuses Today. Link in bio.
No. 99 - “Your Potential And Your Orientation: Mastery Vs. Ego” Full episode link in bio.
No 98. Jeff Bezos on Hiring, Compromise, Inventing, Decision Making, and Truth Seeking
This change in perspective will make you different from almost everyone else on the planet. Shift from I to you. From protecting to progress. Stop soothing your ego, smooth curiosity.
“Dying is easy, living is the trick.” -Red Smith
No. 91 - What’s in your rucksack?
Hey friends,
My time in the army taught me a lot. How to carry a rucksack is at the top of that list. Big bag, pack it full of bullets, beans, bandaids and walk. We cross-loaded our kit to have what we needed if someone went down, got lost, or got blown up. Lots of weight. One foot in front of another. Keep going, don’t quit. The mission is what matters.
One night, I found myself on a hilltop with some friends. Our mission was to mark a drop zone so an aircraft could push out much-needed supplies. The woods were thick. Impassable. In frustration, the medic on our team took off his rucksack and started throwing it into the woods. Not a good idea for noise discipline, but he did it anyway. Eventually, this rucksack-flinging bear of a man broke enough trail to allow us to mark the DZ. The aircraft pushed its load, and we moved on.
My rucksack is more metaphorical now. I still pack it full of stuff and try not to quit. One foot in front of another. It’s filled with responsibilities, stories, and dreams. I’m lucky to walk with friends who will take things from me when I need help. On my best days, I know when to ask for help carrying my load. When I’m at my very best, I know when to put the rucksack down and take out all the BS I don’t need to carry anymore.
What’s in your rucksack matters. Consider what you keep, cultivate, add, and throw out.
No. 87 - The Happiness Hazard
Most of our perceived problems will work themselves out, one way or another. If you can do something about it, do it. If you can’t, well, what will worrying do? While I’m very happy eating Cherry Garcia, that’s not what I’m after. I’m after satisfaction. And that is work I need to do on the inside.
Satisfaction won’t come with a beautiful mountainside home in the desert or a bungalow on the beach. That will make me happy for a moment or two. Erich Fromm said it wisely,
“To have or to be? That is the question. The difference between having and being is the difference between a society that is geared to have more and a society that is geared to be more.”
Satisfaction comes when I can focus my monkey mind on doing things that have meaning for myself and those around me. Being more, not having more. It means slowing down enough to see all that is good here and now and realizing what matters —relationships, meaningful work, and living our life to potential.
Our satisfaction is a factor of what we desire. The more we want, the more we need to be satisfied. The less we want, the less we need. That is inside work and something you can change today. Want more from yourself, don’t want more things.
Want to be more. Not have more.
Everything has a cost, and we don’t always pay in cash. We pay with our very selves. The cost is freedom, anxiety, relationships, time, and more.
Never bet against a person who keeps showing up. We all have different stories. We lug around different traumas, but we have a decision to make every single morning we’re gonna show up or not. Now, if you’re willing to look foolish long enough, you will win whatever winning means to You just gotta show up.
Hey, I don’t know about you, but I’m on a second by second plan. I’m just moving second to second, trying to do the best I can. I think we have an opportunity in every moment when we interact with people to either help or hurt. I think the first person we need to prioritize ourself how we interact with ourself matters, or we helping or hurting by the way we talk to ourself second by second plan, next second opportunity to make it better.
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Stress is your perception of your ability to handle a situation. Change that, and change the situation. #btty #warriorship #wisdom #excellence #peace #better
“Strategy starts with your calendar” - Andy Grove #strategy #wisdom #btty #warriorship #4000weeks
Fear, Uncertainty, Criticism, and Doubt. It’s an acronym, if you don’t get those voices under control you are FUC’D.
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