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Here's your weekly dose of knowledge that will help you future-proof your career. You'll find:
- 3 Insights I’ve learned from others
- 2 Tiny Thoughts from me
- 1 Article that I’ve written
Let’s dive in. 🤿
Insights
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Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don’t focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.
— Kevin Kelly in Excellent Advice for Living
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The path to the good life is simple: actively pursue your ideal lifestyle, create solutions to problems along the way, and get paid for sharing that solution with others.
– Dan Koe in The Art of Focus
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You can’t get wealthy doing these common things
• Selling your time for money
• Having your expenses higher than your income
• Starting a business with high revenue and no profit
• Saving money without ever investing in financial assets
Yet this is how most of the world operates.
– Tim Denning
Tiny Thoughts
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I spent a few hours this weekend playing Lacrosse against professional players from Canada. Chatting with Owen Grant (first-team all-star in college, now field and box pro), he told me: “when I got to the pros, practice was completely different – the focus was much higher on nailing the fundamentals perfectly, instead of running complex plays or doing crazy stuff individually.”
Makes me think of this meme:
Running a business feels very similar: it comes down to making something people want, and then telling them about it. This doesn’t mean that it’s easy (it’s not); just simple.
Nailing the business fundamentals is much more important than using complex 17-step AI-based outreach sequences or building out a vast code architecture.
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This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people started doing exactly that at Oktoberfest in Munich: attending a festival, getting drunk, having an absolute blast, and then subsequently being down with illness for a few days (excluding the hangover).
The number of respiratory infections increases around Munich every year in calendar week 41 – exactly after Oktoberfest is over. The rest of Germany: not affected.
Coronaviruses also love this – which begs the question: is it really worth it to attend events like this, if the price of admission includes a few days of respiratory infections?
I’m currently rethinking this logic, as I’ve been sick for the first time as an entrepreneur. Business stops when you’re not functional. Grinds to a halt. While in larger orgs, you can delegate a lot of stuff around you and it’ll keep going, as solopreneur, that’s not the same.
Maybe one of my favorite sayings from Lacrosse also applies to business: the best ability is availability.
Article
I don’t have a new long-form article for you today, so here’s one that I had a ton of fun writing last year: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Athletic Greens. ⬇️
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Hope you have a wonderful week. The sun's shining, summer break is definitely over, good time to get after it.
LFG. 🔥
PS: Does work-life balance make you mediocre? Cal Newport doesn't think so.
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