Tag: When

When and why to change your mind.

I’ve just finished Think Again by Adam Grant. The book is a brilliant expansion on lesson #1, “Don’t believe everything you think,” from last week’s letter. Expansion… maybe, perhaps explanation is the better word. At the end of the book is a section ca...

You Can Rise to the Top Even When Somebody Else Tries to Step On You

Isn’t it a wonderful thing when you get to taste the fruits of something good that came from what somebody else meant for bad towards you? Oh, the sweet, sweet victory! Contempt, meanness, prejudice, and nastiness will never win against determination, talent, tenacity, and awesomeness. ...

You Exit the Game When You Realise How to Retire For Good

Retirement isn’t the absence of work, it’s the lack of unworthy work. The work you know leads to emptiness. You’d think it would be easy to identify such work but in my experience, it isn’t. Most typically you have a slow realisation that your endeavours will likely be ...