“You are the common denominator of all the drama in your life. You haven’t had 5 crappy jobs or 3 crappy relationships in a row. They did not happen to you. You happened to them. You are crappy at your job or you are crappy at your relationships.”
“You want to be the person that gets on the elevator, and then gets off, and nobody really remembers that you were even there.”
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” — Jonas Salk
Thank you.
For the past 12 months you’ve read, liked, commented, and shared the 52 posts and 50 issues of my For The Interested newsletter I’ve published and I don’t take that for granted.
I appreciate your attention, feedback, and generosity more than you know.
Following are the 20 posts which resonated most with readers this year in case you missed any of them.
“Somehow, while all our design processes celebrate iteration and celebrate throwing things away, our culture downplays iteration and quitting. We don’t celebrate stopping things, changing our path, changing the destination. Just the opposite — we celebrate finishing things.”
“54 percent of Chinese born after 1995 chose ‘influencer’ as their most desired occupation.”
“Your habit has probably been to arrive in the office in the morning and check your email. This is akin to sending a message to the world asking for everyone else to set your priorities for the next few hours.”
“The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. The most successful people I know have a narrow focus, protect against time-wasters, say no to almost everything, and have let go of old limiting beliefs.”
“We have this sense that there is an objective best, and in virtually no area of life is that true. It’s not even that, ‘Well, there’s the best for me, and then there’s the best for you.’ It isn’t even clear that there is a best for me. There’s a whole set of things that are probably more or less equivalent.”
“The when matters. It’s got to be presented as something that is time sensitive, that has a massive level of immediacy to it, that’s what is going to get you that response and that uptick in sharing and watching and liking and reading, because people want to be a part of a developing narrative.”