1: Steve Jobs once observed: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. . . Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”
This week, we’ve been exploring strategies to go 10x. Rather than 2x. Which is our default mode. Do what we’re doing. … continue reading
1: There are two ways to approach any situation. Two ways to approach life.
Are we playing a finite game? Or an infinite game?
“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,” writes Dr. James Carse in his book Finite and Infinite Games. An infinite game is played “for the purpose of continuing the play. . . Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries. … continue reading
1: Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was working on his groundbreaking research on flow, the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.
Mihaly contacted Peter Drucker, the preeminent management thinker, to interview him regarding creativity.
Peter’s response struck a chord with Mihaly, so much so that he included it in his book:
“I am greatly honored and flattered by your kind … continue reading
1: In 2014, Nike announced it would release the “P-ROD 8,” American skateboarder Paul Rodriguez‘s eighth signature shoe.
P-Rod became only the fourth athlete ever to release eight unique signature shoes. The other three athletes? Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James.
“Having a signature shoe with Nike is an extremely rare feat,”  Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How … continue reading
“Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming. It’s easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It’s easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” -Tim Ferriss
