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Guidance, team, and results: these are the responsibilities of any boss.
Research shows that teams with more diversity with regard to gender or underrepresented minorities are smarter, achieve better team performance, and achieve better business outcomes.
Exemplary leaders understand that it’s not their personal view of the future that’s important; it’s embracing the aspirations of their constituents that matter most.
Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.
Treat the page as part of the mind, not its afterthought: drafting notes in dialogue with existing notes supplies the external scaffolding that enables systematic thought, exposes inconsistencies, and permits critique at a distance. The brain’s bias to “jump to conclusions” (Kahneman 2013, p. 79) and to confabulate patterns makes internal-only reasoning dangerously fluent but unreliable; fixed language on paper stabilizes arguments for inspection. This is why Luhmann asserts that “it is not possible to think systematically without writing” (1992, p. 53) and why contemporary cognitive science emphasizes that notes do not merely ease intellectual work, they make it possible (Levy 2011, p. 290). The practical upshot is to write permanent notes that state why a claim matters for your own lines of thought and to link them explicitly, turning a slip-box into a living model of your theories rather than a passive archive.
Leverage is the ability to inflict loss and withhold gain.
If I had infinite money, already traveled the world, had no fear, and didn’t receive any recognition for what I do, what would I do or what would I create?
When starting out, calculate your monthly sales and gross profit margin by hand.
We’re no longer dependent on the guessing game.
In my world, you take possession of your life, exercising agency. But in the Christian one, you are not even the owner of yourself. Your talents merely flow through you; you give yourself to the one who made you.
Invert the modern worship of imagination: Johnson feared its distortions—nocturnal terrors, envy, hypochondria, and fantasies of acclaim—and countered them with disciplined observation, antithesis, and empirical checks in conversation and community. He pinned down vague pain by naming its structure (for example, sorrow builds upon itself rather than directing you toward its cure) and prescribed countervailing practices (employment, not reverie). His prose models a ‘but/ yet’ dialectic that accepts human doubleness without surrender: he could produce twelve thousand words in a sitting when he overcame indolence, yet he confessed to stop-start idleness. This paradox method replaces self-flattery with reality testing, a contrarian route to humility that stabilizes desire and keeps loves rightly ordered.
Emotionally mature people are innately courteous because they naturally honor boundaries. They’re looking for connection and closeness, not intrusion.
There’s a huge clue here about what to do next: get a pencil . That’s what’s scarce. People who will draw up plans. People who will go first.
Effective service to God is grounded in the principle of death and resurrection. This principle is exemplified by Jesus, who, despite being sinless, submitted to baptism as a figure of death and resurrection before beginning His ministry. 'No servant of the Lord can serve Him without himself knowing the working of that principle in his life.' This means that our natural life, with its strengths and abilities, must be brought into death and then resurrected by God for True spiritual service. This process ensures that our service is not tainted by the flesh but is empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Be honest about your shortcomings and resist the urge to make excuses. Accepting responsibility for your actions is the first step towards personal growth and moral improvement.
Knowledge is power, but until you break the trauma repetition cycle and heal your subconscious wounds, you can still be prone to gravitating towards narcissists.
My upbringing allowed me to be comfortable with failure…we see much more of the upside than the downside.
If the light comes in, the darkness is expelled. It is the presence of Jesus, dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit, that can make us holy.
We expected our SEALs to operate with an aggressive mind-set. We expected them to lean forward, maneuver quickly, see opportunities, and capitalize upon them—to aggressively execute to solve problems, overcome obstacles, accomplish the mission, and win. But of course there is a dichotomy with being aggressive that must be balanced: aggression is not always the answer. Aggression must be balanced with logic and detailed analysis of risk versus reward.
I’m convinced you would be hard-pressed to come up with a deposit that has more impact in the family than making and keeping promises.
