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Quotes & Notes:
- The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard … in the graveyard is buried all of the unwritten novels, all of the un-launched businesses, all of the unexecuted ideas, all of the ideas that people carried around with them all of their life and said I’m going to do this tomorrow.
- When I reach the end of my life, I want to look at my body of work and say yes that represents me.
- The title of the book [Die Empty] is more of an operating philosophy for me.
- A lot of people regret not having been more intentional with doing the work they have done.
- People spend a third of their adult life at their job. Why would we not want that big chunk of life to represent the best of who we are?
- As I approach my work this season, which of these decisions am I going to regret more later on in life.
- No one charts a course for mediocrity. Nobody wakes up and says, “I can’t wait to crank out this steaming pile of crap today.”
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Mediocrity:
- Aimlessness: A general lack of cohesiveness within your day-to-day activities.
- Boredom: A trigger for productivity or stagnancy.
- Comfort: A refusal to innovate after relative success.
- Delusion: An inaccurate sense of your skills, weaknesses and core drivers.
- Ego: Inflexibility and unwillingness to adapt or learn.
- Fear: A paralyzing effect rooted in imagination.
- Guardedness: Neglecting community and embracing isolation.
- One of the most difficult things is acting upon the things that you know to be true.
- It’s not sufficient to read books and internalize knowledge, it’s not sufficient to talk to people and affirm the truth. You have to act on it before it becomes reality.
- How we tend to think of work is mapping and making, mapping and making, and that’s how most of us go through our life, but there is this third kind of work that we often ignore. This third kind of work is called meshing.
- There are drivers, dreamers and drifters, who all focus on two different types of work rather than all three of them at once.
- Developers are best positioned to spot and leverage opportunities because they are planning, they are being diligent about doing the work, and they are developing themselves and their skills to position them for future activity.
- Understand that we live life with the illusion that we will always have tomorrow to do today’s work. The reality is that we don’t. You only have today to get your best work out of you. So, be intentional today.
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