The Bi-Monthly #2
As I read I write what sticks with me in a journal. Below is everything that’s stuck with me from April 17th - May 1, 2025. From: Designing The Mind, Lovingkindness, Diary of a CEO & Skin in the Game.
You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong. Only reality can do that.
Don’t give shit, don’t take shit.
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
“I always try to master myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world” -Descartes
“Freedom is achieved not by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.” -Epictetus
Often the greatest barrier to serenity is too many desires for what we don’t possess and too few for what we do have
Designing The Mind by Ryan A. Bush
An awakened life demands a fundamental re-visioning of the limited views of our own potential
The vision is always available to us. It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. One the light is turned on in a dark room, it becomes illuminated. It doesn’t matter how long it was dark before (paraphrased)
Only connect -E.M. Forster
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don’t have, something that’ll make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where we seek it.
“I am larger and better than I thought.” -Walt Whitman
Lovingkindness by Sharon Salzberg
You cannot pour from empty buckets. i.e. take care of yourself.
“When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend and the mistake remains a mistake.” -Shimon Peres
Everything you do, with or without an audience, provides evidence to you about who you are and what you’re capable of.
Make your messaging unexpected, unusual and unsaturated (to make an impact).
Strong marketing = Make people feel something, either way, love or hatred. Indifference is the least profitable outcome. (paraphrased)
Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
Finally, I thought this bio page of Huel founder Julian Hearn was fantastic. It’s a useful, short read with plenty of links.
