founders: raising money isn’t the hard part, getting a return for your investors is.
this should be on the cover of every book about building companies and being an entrepreneur https://t.co/bfLcUhMQg7
— Casey Neistat (@CaseyNeistat) February 2, 2017
As a piano teacher one thing that I singled out that makes me different from a lot of my predecessors as a piano teacher because if you think about the structure of that it is you do it right or else. So my method of teaching piano is I teach them to get out there and make mistakes and survive. So in the recital, I encourage them to try to make mistakes which then, of course, they don’t as much. I don’t want anybody to freeze to the point that they quit and they never play music again. My goal as a teacher is to get them to survive failing recognize that every other person in the entire world is failing and fearing failing just as much as they are and to make your contribution you have to take a risk you have to put yourself out there.
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore
Are you feeling stuck in some area of your life? Do you feel like you have hit an upper limit in your happiness? The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level might help you ask some questions that help you breakthrough.
Some questions I am considering are:
Pearson’s Law: “That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.”
Karl Pearson
An interesting question from my friend Daniel Marcos of the Growth Institute. Form an external team, one away from the immune system in a business that destroys new ideas. The job of this external team is to come up with a plan to destroy your business. A very useful exercise. By the way, I believe he got this idea from Salim Ismael at Exponential Organizations.
Need some intelligent positive energy in your life? Follow Bill Gates and Melinda Gates on Facebook. You will quickly learn that the world is becoming better every day–less disease, less poverty, better education. Want to see what Mr. Gates is thinking about and working on? Go read his blog, Gates Notes.
Am on a bit of a Tim Ferris kick after reading Tools of Titans. On my evening walk (hit 10,000 steps!) I was listening to Tim’s podcast interview with Mike Birbiglia. Couple of interesting things stuck:
Reading Tim Ferris’ Tools of Titans. Tim wrote this book as a way to summarize the wisdom learned from the many people he has interviewed on his podcasts. I first met Tim at an EO Nebraska event right after he wrote The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. He attended the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder event right after and hacked his way into asking Warren Buffett a question.
I collect quotes as a way to trigger my thoughts, and often make me dig back into a book. The quotes I like so far are:
“‘Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost corrections themselves.’—Peter Lynch”
“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use be the same again.”—Steve Jobs
“In negotiation, he who cares the least wins.”—Various
“To do original work: It’s not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”
By the way, an immediate action from his book was to change the theme for this blog to P2 — a theme designed by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to encourage more blogging.
It is also worth reading Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life on Tim’s blog.
If you want to check out some of Tim’s readers favorite quotes, check out this post on Facebook:
Was a boxing fan in the era of Ali….and then not any more. I suspect I was an Ali fan a lot more than a boxing fan. Ali had a way with words as much as he did in the ring. Some of my favorite quotes, they seem to apply to life and business as much as boxing:
RIP Champ.