Great read, Tim. The point about deserving to be where you are resonated. It reminded me of a recent post on Medium where I said Gen Z has a wrong take on work/life balance after a 21-year-old trainee told me I needed to respect his work/life balance. We're paying him for learning so I thought asking him to do an extra task was OK. I still think so. But... That polarized the readers of the post. Half told me I was right and the other half said I was an a**hole. I loved that. Hitting a nerve with the second half felt good.
I get that reaction often. The amount of entitlement around is killing our careers. We deserve nothing and even if we earn it there are no guarantees. That's why it's on us to stick with employers and people who see our value.
Interesting article today, showing that most people have something useful to teach us and not to dismiss people out of hand because there is something (or even a lot of things) you don't like about them. Just wanted to point out the quote you attribute to Tim Ferris "How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?"comes from Jerry Colonna https://www.reboot.io/team/jerry-colonna/ who Tim has interviewed a few times. It is a very useful phrase to keep in your head and check in with regularly! Highly recommend Jerry Colonna's book Reboot - he is known as the CEO whisperer.
We'd be in a better place if we approached different perspectives from a place of curiosity rather than reaction.
I've been trying to study people that are successful that I don't necessarily follow or am fond of. I've been learning a lot about them and myself as well. Really insightful process!
I’ll watch all the documentaries about successful people (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billie Eillish, Breakpoint, Imagine Dragons, Robbie Williams, Liliane Bettencourt, etc.).
I also like to watch documentaries related to scams like Bitconned to see how they manage to pull it off. They pulled off a lot of social proof and fake authority in that one.
What about you? Anyone else that sticks out for you?
I love the scam documentaries too. I've watched all the ones you mentioned. The new one on Sylvester Stallone is cool. Books about Walt Disney and Jim Rohn are cool as well.
The Sylvester Stallone one was great as well. Something that sticks out is those people almost always had to sacrifice something and work a lot for little rewards at the beginning. I’m always impressed how perseverance and sticking with it when everybody else gives up makes up for a lot of their successes. That shit compounds!
Never looked at the books you mentioned. I’ll check those out. Thanks for sharing!
You have good points here. The name-calling was pretty bold and unnecessary. You can be a harsh critic of anyone, but what if one day you bumped into them? Would you call him a SOB to his face? Something to think about.
Well, hello to Tai Lopez. Not as useless as he looks by a long shot! Many thanks, Tim, for introducing us, your loyal readers, to this person. Maybe he could write a book... it would be a multimillion-seller, then he could really BUY that Lambo. He'd do better to take out a lease on it so he could get a NEW one every 2-3 years. And get a better house that he wouldn't have to bleed money every month to rent.
The subject so actual, when you are in the current you can bend from its pressure, but you must also possess a certain degree of toughness and elasticity, when it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, it is true that knowledge, resilience, perseverance have an impact, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
Great read, Tim. The point about deserving to be where you are resonated. It reminded me of a recent post on Medium where I said Gen Z has a wrong take on work/life balance after a 21-year-old trainee told me I needed to respect his work/life balance. We're paying him for learning so I thought asking him to do an extra task was OK. I still think so. But... That polarized the readers of the post. Half told me I was right and the other half said I was an a**hole. I loved that. Hitting a nerve with the second half felt good.
I get that reaction often. The amount of entitlement around is killing our careers. We deserve nothing and even if we earn it there are no guarantees. That's why it's on us to stick with employers and people who see our value.
Agree?
I agree, Tim, but I learned this lesson when I was 32. I wish I'd been smarter in my 20s.
Interesting article today, showing that most people have something useful to teach us and not to dismiss people out of hand because there is something (or even a lot of things) you don't like about them. Just wanted to point out the quote you attribute to Tim Ferris "How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?"comes from Jerry Colonna https://www.reboot.io/team/jerry-colonna/ who Tim has interviewed a few times. It is a very useful phrase to keep in your head and check in with regularly! Highly recommend Jerry Colonna's book Reboot - he is known as the CEO whisperer.
Ahhh good pick up Kathryn. Thanks. What other controversial people are worth studying?
We'd be in a better place if we approached different perspectives from a place of curiosity rather than reaction.
I've been trying to study people that are successful that I don't necessarily follow or am fond of. I've been learning a lot about them and myself as well. Really insightful process!
Who have you studied so far Kenny?
I’ll watch all the documentaries about successful people (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billie Eillish, Breakpoint, Imagine Dragons, Robbie Williams, Liliane Bettencourt, etc.).
I also like to watch documentaries related to scams like Bitconned to see how they manage to pull it off. They pulled off a lot of social proof and fake authority in that one.
What about you? Anyone else that sticks out for you?
I love the scam documentaries too. I've watched all the ones you mentioned. The new one on Sylvester Stallone is cool. Books about Walt Disney and Jim Rohn are cool as well.
The Sylvester Stallone one was great as well. Something that sticks out is those people almost always had to sacrifice something and work a lot for little rewards at the beginning. I’m always impressed how perseverance and sticking with it when everybody else gives up makes up for a lot of their successes. That shit compounds!
Never looked at the books you mentioned. I’ll check those out. Thanks for sharing!
You have good points here. The name-calling was pretty bold and unnecessary. You can be a harsh critic of anyone, but what if one day you bumped into them? Would you call him a SOB to his face? Something to think about.
Good point Peyton. I have a friend who knows loosely knows Tai, and based on that I'm sure he'd be okay with SOB.
Well, hello to Tai Lopez. Not as useless as he looks by a long shot! Many thanks, Tim, for introducing us, your loyal readers, to this person. Maybe he could write a book... it would be a multimillion-seller, then he could really BUY that Lambo. He'd do better to take out a lease on it so he could get a NEW one every 2-3 years. And get a better house that he wouldn't have to bleed money every month to rent.
Excellent. Really enjoyed this. You can learn from anyone. It doesn’t mean you have to like them or get along.
The subject so actual, when you are in the current you can bend from its pressure, but you must also possess a certain degree of toughness and elasticity, when it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, it is true that knowledge, resilience, perseverance have an impact, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
Yep, I agree.
Good stuff! Love it. Open your heart to everything and take the lessons as profit.
That's the bottom line Alex, Any of Tai's lessons stand out?
No. Actually never heard of him, I more so like they way you present the article. Honest, straight forward and insightful.
Thank you!
*Write and present the article* 🙏