Probably one of the more interesting artists making music today. Between his solo material, production work at his label Spacebomb records, and his Spacebomb House Band, Matthew E White is releasing a ton of excellent material. His newest solo album just dropped. Incredible!
“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?” - Marcus Aurelius
"Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one." - Arthur van Hoff
“Curiosity is really the gateway to knowledge. An idea is such a complicated thing, and it can only happen if a certain door is opened and a question asked. Those questions are the fire that excite a mind and help put an idea and answer together. So, curiosity is the question that is the start of everything.” - Chris Anderson
“75 percent of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies, including an inability to handle interpersonal problems; unsatisfactory team leadership during times of difficulty or conflict; or inability to adapt to change or elicit trust.” - Center for Creative Leadership
“Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.” - Daniel Kahneman
“The worst time to make a decision is while you are in it.” and “Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.” - Daniel Kahneman
“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That’s when you need to stop and check your thinking.” - Don Redelmeier
“He beheld not only the affairs that were passing around, but those also in which he was personally engaged, with the coolness of an unconcerned spectator. They were to him as events historically recorded.” - Gouverneur Morris talking about George Washington
I had planned to be on a dirt bike/camping trip to Yosemite this weekend but wildfires had other plans. Went for a nice 5 mile hike in N Georgia instead.
“Heraclitus would shed a tear whenever he went out in public—Democritus laughed. One saw the world as a parade of miseries, the other of follies. And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life then to lament it.” - Seneca
“You must stop blaming God, and not blame any person. You must completely control your desire and shift your avoidance to what lies within your recent choice. You must no longer feel anger, resentment, envy, or regret.“ - Epictetus
“Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.” - Marcus Aurelius
“My advice (for what it's worth) for success and happiness: Compete with yourself and root for everybody else.” - Candice Millard
"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong." - Hindu Proverb
"Don’t feel qualified? Nobody does. You can only be qualified to do that which you have already accomplished or trained for. Anything new is accomplished by unqualified people." - James Clear
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” - Winston Churchill
Probably one of the more interesting leadership/management books I have ever read. One that I will definitely re-read once or twice.
“Planning may not be effective at assessing the future, but it can be a good way to assess the present. It also indicates trade-offs that may be necessary, sets boundaries so that possibilities can be carefully assessed, simulates plausible scenarios, integrates ideas, and forces people to think about consequences.” - Richard Farson
"There are no small parts, only small actors."
