There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
Ray Dalio
Be silly
‘Have fun’ is my message. Be silly. You’re allowed to be silly. There’s nothing wrong with it.
Jimmy Fallon
Successfully dealing
Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life.
Ray Dalio
Humour works
When humour works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Tina Fey
Experience Failure
For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
Tina Fey
Stop saying ‘I’
On some level, we all want fans – people that rave about how great we are. Yet when we find the spotlight aimed at us, why do we block our fans and push people away with one simple letter – ‘I’? Self-awareness is the starting point, moving towards ‘WE’ is our goal.
Two things can catapult us towards success – value and scale. Value is that thing you bring to the table that no one else does, scale is your ability to touch more than just the next person that uses your value. No one has ever built their empire telling people how good they are . . . They’ve shown them.
We’ve all had someone who trusted in us. They saw our ability to create value and thought it’s time for our next, more difficult project. As we try to scale, we want other’s to see how valuable we are.
When that new project starts we are excited, it’s something new, it scares us, we feel deep in the water. That fear drives us to want others to see how hard we are pushing. That fear causes us to say ‘I’ – we want appreciation! “I’ve been busy organising . .” or “I managed to set up . . . .” We’ve all been guilty of this at some point. What’s wrong with this:
1) People want to feel part of something bigger, not just part of your journey. There is nothing more disarming to push people away than someone that always says “I”. Is there someone you could have partnered with to create a ‘WE’ and built their journey form them?
2) Someone that says “I” is clearly not feeling supported. It’s time for leaders to to lead. Have you asked how their project is going to give them a chance to feel appreciated?
This week’s challenge:
For 1 day, correct yourself every time you say “I”. Find another word to help people on their journey “we”, “together” etc.
This week’s bonus:
When’s the last time you had a heated debate with your partner and used the word “I”? Didn’t go so well. If there’s a next time, find a different way such as “Together we can . . . ” We all want to build something together.
Getting at truth
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right.
Ray Dalio
Energy
Without passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
Donald Trump
Your character
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Wayne Dyer
Real wealth
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
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