😎 Summer Edition 🌴: Becoming a better version of yourself 🧠 - Conversations with Seth Godin & Jim Collins ⭐️- Inspiring moments with Jerry Seinfeld, Al Pacino & Djokovic🎾
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#1 Failing is the road to success from this podcast 👇
Seth Godin: Failing on our way to mastery from The Knowledge Project Ep. #105
💡 Learning is the art of failing on our way to mastery. Get to know your audience as it is foolish trying to reach everybody. For example, understand who enjoys ‘nugget learning’ and writing short notes > professors, students, entrepreneurs, investors.
👁 Learn to see the world as it is vs as you think or believe it is. Limit your distractions to force you to be on the hook > be intentional when doing what you decided to do.
🧡 Doing what you love is for amateurs vs Loving what you do is for professionals. You can enjoy being an amateur doing this thing you love whenever you want or can >> if you want to become a pro, you have to get close to the state of the art. When you put on the uniform, you are setting some expectations.
🎭 Difference between coaching and criticism > Coaching does not give you the answer > The person who criticizes will feel better if you feel worse.
Seth Godin is the author of 20 bestselling books, founder of altMBA, the Akimbo podcast and runs one of the most popular blogs in the world.
#2 The most valuable asset in life from this podcast 👇
Jim Collins: Relationships vs Transactions from The Knowledge Project Ep. #110
💎 Think of what is more valuable in life, relationships or transactions? Ask a friend who benefits the most from your relationship > if both answer ‘me’, it is a great relationship you do not want to stop. Writing is like running, if it is not hard, you are probably not making progress.
⏰ Flywheel effect and the Stockdale paradox > think of fueling with 20% change from 6 to 12 then measure what comes out from 12 to 6. Success comes from making slight changes (20%) more often than changing too much 👉 changing 20% to have a 80% effect.
🪙 Bad outcomes do not necessarily come from bad decisions. No decision is often worse than a bad decision.
Jim Collins is the author of some of the most popular business books in history, including Good to Great, Beyond Entrepreneurship (BE 2.0), Built to Last, How The Mighty Fall, and many more.
#3 The Curiosity Chronicle from this newsletter👇
On execution, Patrick Collison, Seinfeld’s system and more from The Curiosity Chronicle by Sahil Bloom
💸 “Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.” Casey Neistat.
🛠 Execution is everything is often expensive and is made of fast reversible decisions >> perfect is the enemy of good.
🪜 Don’t be afraid of failing from Jerry Seinfeld (in The Tim Ferriss Show) > “If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last ones I would trade would be the failures. Those are the most valuable ones.”
Sahil Bloom is an investor, advisor, educator and newsletter writer.
#4 Hollywood’s favorite bad guy from this newsletter👇
The profile dossier: Al Pacino, Hollywood’s favorite gangster from The Profile by Polina Marinova.
🔫 Al Pacino’s role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest performances in film history. Al Pacino was born and raised in Bronx (NYC) as an introverted only child. As a student, he got accepted at the High school of performing arts but dropped out at the age of 16.
🎬 Al Pacino started his career in a 1971 movie called The Panic in the needle park. His performance as a heroin addict caught the eye of Francis Ford Coppola. He chose Al Pacino to play in The Godfather.
💵 Al Pacino got paid $35,000 for The Godfather. 👉 2 years later, Al Pacino was earning $500,000 + 10% of the film earnings in The Godfather II.
🔗 Al Pacino and Robert De Niro have been friends for more than 50 years (from before they became famous).
🔖 Great quote from Al Pacino about talent : "You may not have as much talent as you think you have, but if you have the desire, the talent will find you." Al Pacino is also a big believer of repetitions: "It's in repetition that the creation comes, that the expression comes," he says. He once rehearsed a courtroom scene 85 times until he was happy with the result.
Polina Marinova is a former writer at Fortune500 magazine. She now writes a very popular newsletter: The Profile.
#5 Djokovic making history from this newsletter👇
Novak Djokovic makes history at Roland Garros from Huddle Up by Joseph Pompliano
🏆 Great Grand Slam win by Djokovic at Roland Garros vs Tsitsipas > his 19th Grand title gets him a $1.7m money prize. But the masterpiece game was probably his victory against Nadal in the semi. Before that game, Nadal was on a 105-3 win-loss ratio in Roland Garros since 2005 including a 35 winning streak and 4 titles back to back in 🇫🇷.
🎾 Over the last 2 decades, 3 tennis players won 59 out of 73 titles.
🏆 Federer (20) 🏆 Nadal (20) 🏆 Djokovic (19) Djokovic can equal the record this summer as the great favorite contender in Wimbledon.
💵 Djokovic is already leading in earnings on the court with $148m.
Joseph Pompliano writes a very popular newsletter about sports.
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