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Midline Monday: do not live a half life (opens the original)
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Weekly ReflectionsOur family had a beach fire last night, the first of the year.The beach is 100 feet from our house. And yet, during a busy summer, we just couldn’t seem to make it happen. Round up the kids, gather the wood, get outside.We talked about it a lot, but could never seem to summon the energy after busy days.As we watched our children happily running around on the beach, we asked ourselves: why don’t we do this more often?The honest answer is that we were waiting for the energy to ma
Midline Monday: shut up, suit up, show up. (opens the original)
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Weekly ReflectionsEach morning Dr. James Hollis talks to himself. Six words before the day has a chance to get going.Hollis is a Jungian analyst in his 80s, director of the Jung Society of Washington, DC, professor at Saybrook University, and author of 15+ books including Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life and What Matters Most. He has spent decades with people through grief, divorce, and the reckoning of midlife. He has distilled all that learning into these affirmations.Shut up. Stop f
Midline Monday: lessons from Ted Lasso (opens the original)
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Weekly ReflectionsTed Lasso quoted Marcus Aurelius this week: reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. I thought to myself; there’s a lesson I keep having to learn. The Buddhists have their own name for it: the second arrow. The first arrow is the pain that happens to you. The second is the one you fire at yourself afterward.More recently, Arthur Brooks has a formula;Suffering = pain x resistance.Different centuries, same message. Life’s pain is inevitable. How we respond to
Midline Monday: on to Cincinnati (opens the original)
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Weekly ReflectionsEarly in the 2014 season the New England Patriots were blown out 41–14, and the football world assumed their season was in trouble.Reporters pushed coach Bill Belichick to analyse the loss. He sat in the press conference and answered each question basically the same way: we’re on to Cincinnati.No wallowing in defeat, they were moving on. They won the Super Bowl that season.Brad Stulberg frames a similar idea below with a photo from the US Open, the raw emotion from each player;
Midline Monday: back to building (opens the original)
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Weekly ReflectionsI’m back building again. Man, I love building companies.Coming back required facing a familiar truth of early-stage life: there is more to do than there is time in the day.Not by a little. By orders of magnitude.In theory I could work twenty-four hours a day and never reach the bottom of my list.The work is infinite but I have limits.There are many executive “lessons” I’ve learned after a decade leading early-stage businesses. Learning how to thrive inside this construct may be
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