Brain Food – No. 561 – January 28, 2024
Timeless ideas and insights for life. (Read the archives).
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The legendary car salesman Joe Girard was considered one of the best in history. His secret? Building relationships by genuinely liking people and telling them.
— Selling: The Crucial Skill Nobody Taught You
Insight(s)
1.
“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.”
— Viktor Frankl
2.
“The common trait of people who supposedly have vision is that they spend a lot of time reading and gathering information, and then they synthesize it until they come up with an idea.”
— Fred Smith, Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
3.
“People are more adept [at] working against [things] than oftentimes we give them credit for. We often think of people working for things, but they often work against things. They work against poverty. They work against their upbringing. They work against some of these things just as much as they’re working for them. Some people are very fear-driven. We talk about fear as being very negative, but it also can be very positive.”
— Dr. Julie Gurner, Source
Tiny Thought(s)
1.
You don’t need more time; you need more focus.
Fewer projects. Fewer commitments. Fewer obligations. Fewer responsibilities.
Carefully choose your commitments, then go all in.
2.
Rich people have money. Wealthy people have time.
3.
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
Thanks for reading,
— Shane
P.S. The most borrowed books.
P.P.S. We don’t run many events. But this one is special because we partnered with Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman of the conscious leadership group.