We’re here to contribute all we can over take all we can."
“No road is long in good company”. The essence of life is to surround yourself as continuiously as you can with good company
“If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost something is lost, if charecter is lost, everything is lost”.
Be a learning machine - The Game of life is the game of ever lasting learning
Pain first, fulfilment second - In matters concerning self improvement, personal discomfort is irrelevant.
Learning from the mistakes of others - You shouldn’t have to pee on an electric fence to know its a bad idea.
IQ points up for grabs - Going all in, being passionate and obsessive is worth 100 iq points - Bends in the wind, it doesn’t break
Maslow's mandate - “What one can be, one must be”. Becoming congruent with ones current self ones ideal self feels like a noble pursuit.
Overcoming Loss aversion - The crux of many pursuits, personal and professional -
“Nobody wins afraid of loosing” - Chris Stapleton
“Show me the man who’s afraid of appearing foolish and i’ll show you the man you can beat every time” - Lou Brock
“You want to win but you’re afraid of loosing”- John D Rockefeller
Good company - Continuously surround yourself with good company as continuously as you can.
Application - Knowledge without application is wasted.
Plastic - Everyone views life as concreate when it really is plastic. Same with our own brains.
Alloying - Combing things not normally found together often results in a non linear outcome. Copper + Tin = Bronze. Bronze is way harder than one would assume is the outcome from combining both alloys.
Optimal learning - Own experience + vicarious experience (alot of reading), both good examples and bad + a structure to hang to information on (multidis) so using the info becomes easy = non linear outcome.
Compounding - Personally and professionally, what looks like magic is often just compound interest. Dogged, incremental, constant progress sustained over a long period of time. P.D.Kaufman
Patience - Patience is a product of confidence and trust. P.D.Kaufman (terrible at this one)
Lifelong learning - Even if im wrong, I take the assumption im not going to get very far based on what I already know
Opportunity cost - All wise people think in terms of opportunity cost- Munger
Abnormal outcomes - Extreme people get extreme results
Volume training/mindset - Early in life I learned most outcomes come down to the volume of reps in the desired direction.
The examined life - The best armour of old age is a life well spent preceding it. Cicero
Leadership - Leaders dont wait for opportunities, they create them. Leaders mist stir energy in those around them. The best ones see the world from the top down and bottom up.
Inversion - How can I ruin my life? How can I not reach my goal? Avoid these things to achieve the outcome. C.T.Munger
Humility - Wisdom flows to the humble man like water into a depression. Maimonides.
Advantageous Divergence - Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. You cant do the same things as everyone else and expect different things. Extreme people get extreme results.
A prepared mind - Sweat more in practice, bleed less during battle. Chance favours the prepared mind. The world rewards synthesis across ideas.
Confidence - Up to a point, confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy
Strong opinions, loosely held - Everything is a rough approximation of reality. No one knows anything for sure.
Bamboo - Bends in the wind, it doesn’t break
Velocity > Speed - Most systems reward velocity over speed.
Percolation thresholds rule the world - Nature rewards persistence with suddenness.
Alignment - “If you can identify and align with how the world really works, the world will do most of the work for you” this is next to impossible without a multidisciplinary approach to life.