Resilience & Growth
Failure, patience, and compounding. Burning the ships, staying an amateur long enough to get good, learning from other people’s mistakes so you can skip a few of your own, and continuing to swim when the water is cold.
15 letters
- There’s Treasure In Your Shipwrecks. The Difference Between Moving On And Moving Forward.
- The Cost Of Becoming: Fee Or Fine? Life's Only Constant Is Change. (Pt. 2)
- You Have Permission To Change Life's Only Constant Is Change. (Pt. 1)
- Life's Tough, Get A Helmet. Not Average, Not Special, Still Unique.
- The Beauty Of Being An Amateur What Pilates Taught Me About Beginning.
- Bitter For A Moment, Better For A Lifetime: Harnessing Inner Turtle Power.
- Don’t Shoot The Messenger. Some Truths Take Years To Land.
- Flour, Fire, and Failure: Master Pastry Chef Lessons What The Kitchen Teaches About Failure.
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Newton Was Wrong, And No One Noticed Not Everything Has An Equal Reaction. -
3 Reasons To NOT Give Up Slow And Steady Still Wins. - The 8th Wonder Of The World. Compounding, According To Ryan Holiday.
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Just Keep Swimming Dory Said It Best. -
Success Is 3 Mistakes Away Know What Not To Do. -
Stop "Only" Learning From Your Mistakes Learn From Other People's Too. - Lessons From A Freshman That's A Wrap.
Where this theme meets the others
Most insights belong to more than one idea. These are the crossings. The pieces here that reach into another theme, and what they reach for.
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Purpose & Identity 20 connections
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Wisdom & Philosophy 17 connections
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Leadership & Business 14 connections
The Beauty Of Being An Amateur The One Thing That Made Napoleon Successful:
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Creativity & Craft 13 connections
Other themes
- Wisdom & Philosophy The oldest questions, asked again this week.
- Purpose & Identity Who you are before you are anything else.
- Time & Focus The hours you have and where they go.
- Friendship & Relationships The people, and what they cost you.
- Leadership & Business Lessons from people who built something.
- Creativity & Craft Making things, and learning how.
- Rest & Stillness Doing nothing, deliberately.
