Category: Quick Thoughts
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You are not here to impress your peers.
Reminder: You are not here to impress your peers. This message is from a good friend of mine. Dude is smart – works in the solar industry, is incredibly thoughtful, and he’s one of those guys you can have an in-depth conversation about almost any topic. And yet here he is wondering if your body…
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Your lack of struggle is 100% irrelevant.
If someone posts that something was tough for them (and it wasn’t tough for you), telling them how easy it was and they need to stop being so soft/weak/delicate is pretty much the OPPOSITE of what one should do. Your lack of struggle is 100% irrelevant. That shit is the height of self-conceit.
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The difference between someone and their work
Simple pro-tip: if you meet someone you respect, say you’re a fan of their work, not a fan of theirs. It’s an important distinction.
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Labels that are self-limiting beliefs are the worst
To extend my thoughts on introversion yesterday, people really love placing labels on themselves in a self-limiting manner. Fat. Short. Lazy. Dumb. Introverted. And so forth. If there is an essential part of my ethos, it’s embracing the awesome. And instead of treating any label (that *I* am placing upon myself) as a limitation, I…
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An example of just awful “networking”
I lament about how bad people are at networking. Well, here’s an example from last week: I’m in a fair number of slack groups. A few of them are marketing related, and occasionally people share a link or two of theirs. It’s an un-written rule that you only share stuff people would be interested in.…