Advice
"Truly showing belief in others will buy them a ticket to someplace they never knew." - Sean Feeney
Hey Coaches,
Here you go!
✍️ Articles
Kevin Kelly - 101 Additional Advices: Kevin Kelly shares 101 bits of advice (not in his recent book) he wished he had known earlier. Here are 10 of my favorites:
Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person.
Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be.
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
Changing your mind about important things is not a consequence of stupidity, but a sign of intelligence.
Strong opinions, clearly stated, but loosely held is the recipe for an intellectual life. Always ask yourself: what would change my mind?
Don’t work for a company you would not invest money in, because when you are working you are investing the most valuable thing you have: your time.
For every success there is a corresponding non-monetary tax of some kind. To maintain success you have to gladly pay these taxes.
If you have a good “why” to live for, no “how” will stop you.
Humility is mostly about being very honest about how much you owe to luck.
There is no formula for success, but there are two formulas for failure: not trying and not persisting.
🎙️ Podcast
Richard Thaler & Cade Massey on the NFL Draft, Misbehaving GM’s, & Exploiting Inefficiencies: I’ve shared this before, but Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler & UPenn professor Cade Massey talked about their research into the NFL draft and why team’s are overconfident and undervalue the future. This was recorded right after the Panthers traded with the Bears last year to get QB Bryce Young, only to give the Bears the #1 pick this year - exactly what Thaler & Massey say you shouldn’t do. [April, 2023 - 58 minutes] Apple | Spotify | YouTube
💭 Miscellaneous
Viktor Frankl on Success
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication…In the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”
The Eisenhower Matrix is a task management tool that helps you distinguish between urgent and important tasks so you can establish an efficient workflow.
📺 Video
Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink: Jocko talks about taking ownership if your situation and not hiding from the truth.
“When a team takes ownership of a problem, the problem gets solved.”
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