tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73681726037888239032024-03-17T22:43:20.483-07:00The Education Corner Welcome to the Education Corner, A Daily Outsider Property
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http://ordinaryfaces.business.siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-54136099059560890562024-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:00:00.238-07:00#OutsiderVibes (Special W-End Edition): The Way Back<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/RRP6L7qfXSs?si=pY5JKk-SbfRUiLNW" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-6965018156634182542024-03-15T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:00:00.135-07:00On Our Education "Virtual 66" This Week: Thoughts On Education & A Window Into Our World <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present the following for consideration:</span></p><table align="center" bgcolor="#000" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: black; background-size: auto; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#e3e7e8" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_78343929610701381row-content m_78343929610701381stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: #e3e7e8; background-size: auto; border-radius: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 625px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="left" class="m_78343929610701381column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_78343929610701381image_block" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; width: 625px;" width="100%"><div align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 10px;"><div class="m_78343929610701381fullWidth" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 625px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t%3D27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5%26_m%3Dc4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785%26_e%3DcrEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIwiMwpzYQbFENEebsxLcxekQT2AqonDkbHDlbGvZrUHN8PWSq4wFpsDyuQVLlayTQqIxFOABfoF67BmlMIt5jpv8HNSRr-pFooA9_k6CtCUaXj-tuI9Ej3c0YURVChpc_NyMQ25rqdy5mIBGk_eqBghSzACfLmecJa_sVrLk9v5cw%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710192926646000&usg=AOvVaw2csU85sxkKa2RcNxVYO05a" href="https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t=27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5&_m=c4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785&_e=crEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIwiMwpzYQbFENEebsxLcxekQT2AqonDkbHDlbGvZrUHN8PWSq4wFpsDyuQVLlayTQqIxFOABfoF67BmlMIt5jpv8HNSRr-pFooA9_k6CtCUaXj-tuI9Ej3c0YURVChpc_NyMQ25rqdy5mIBGk_eqBghSzACfLmecJa_sVrLk9v5cw%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc; outline: none;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYvj__ZjU9PQwpVgPDvgeaOj5SHDR_6t9mwqdqt9Cr18dMZ54mu368IBb-PqsDMMxmZwu9EPen4m6PA8zxT4p-WeWwxUcfpE0gfK7HA4LfSFguZGefbhxr0w6tbkfSZIqDW7sepu29PmcVeubsw7Kg1s77lgGSXcBcidAjFNO20YDQHcZ6M1eYlh-Z5p8n8A5METxMkmOLHvNUZdcXRhKz2vsR5tVVgaaD11VibBXkkhKlWez7CAM-IcMqICA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net/public/users/Integrators/669d5713-9b6a-46bb-bd7e-c542cff6dd6a/27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5/GCNOW-PressAssetforemail-2.20.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; width: 625px;" width="625" /></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 35px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231e1f; font-family: MarkWebPro, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">So long, farewell Melbourne! <img alt="🇦🇺" aria-label="🇦🇺" class="an1" data-emoji="🇦🇺" draggable="false" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f1e6_1f1fa/32.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; width: 1.2em;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">From battling the climate crisis to advocating for women's equity, strengthening health systems, addressing food insecurity, and fostering youth-driven entrepreneurship, each panel at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t%3D27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5%26_m%3Dc4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785%26_e%3DcrEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIwf0W_okK81gUzbkJ8L3GcsOZCbZ92FibsV_qWC5hhClX1zzAX6KykgP0N_GC9wqTLhula1gyvgmwCHO3KzVq9uoKFNPkZiYCATkff9H_WIEXmBZTMeSj3qlcWkMkw0V-k-WpYLMNC7yrhEzYvHb0QOi3puhDuGoWbtOEUfK8_S_A%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710192926646000&usg=AOvVaw08PL0uipQj5iU4gHErovWH" href="https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t=27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5&_m=c4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785&_e=crEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIwf0W_okK81gUzbkJ8L3GcsOZCbZ92FibsV_qWC5hhClX1zzAX6KykgP0N_GC9wqTLhula1gyvgmwCHO3KzVq9uoKFNPkZiYCATkff9H_WIEXmBZTMeSj3qlcWkMkw0V-k-WpYLMNC7yrhEzYvHb0QOi3puhDuGoWbtOEUfK8_S_A%3D%3D" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #7265a9;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Global Citizen NOW Melbourne</strong></a></strong> was grounded in action on the United Nations' Global Goals.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">A massive thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to this important summit. Together, we can drive solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Learn about the impact from the summit by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t%3D27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5%26_m%3Dc4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785%26_e%3DcrEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIyIVYBEuiT5ALn4H5fdf6Jx4-xcC18nFpKrwzHnEYiTVga24-d5wWsZAGyVGk-CuFP8hNnHmwhMeG-9DasmE5exODgYhaEPoc-DKiV29HyNu2Qr4DGP2g1-TAvGWZMqI1syaDmQcxXflRwdmgEszrVLXTkhdVBB_bFLrn8EgTp5mA%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710192926646000&usg=AOvVaw1VotoXZKj1NwkyLxYDsAuK" href="https://link.globalcitizen.org/a/click?_t=27fad69291be4dde8af89f92a62e8fe5&_m=c4ddc2b063964ce8a28f14a52ee3e785&_e=crEn6lttrsuop3aScIKK4v_Owpa1NM_8TS3WB-_KT-CG5xrBmUCzoyj_0g-naXe2PE04riuYMhNiq_0GVRnEcERTPsUPmEKxKVyiqwulwuJ0fqWgVQyoshlZqiEntXil5Pd4-dt37km0BDSpBy8E12LnosZB8FUe0vgXJAOOKkb06pFDJfmub7P19l0O6OAZvm_j2b1dBlVSqynqm6grW_30xCzTlRUzH-7Y2bJliIyIVYBEuiT5ALn4H5fdf6Jx4-xcC18nFpKrwzHnEYiTVga24-d5wWsZAGyVGk-CuFP8hNnHmwhMeG-9DasmE5exODgYhaEPoc-DKiV29HyNu2Qr4DGP2g1-TAvGWZMqI1syaDmQcxXflRwdmgEszrVLXTkhdVBB_bFLrn8EgTp5mA%3D%3D" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">North Carolina Is About to Rake In Millions in Betting Revenue. 13 Colleges Will Get a Slice.</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><em style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Nell Gluckman</span></span></em></span></p></div></div><div align="center" style="line-height: inherit; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJo4vlHDfsgbi4O60nM9hr0BHQERtFrq-lhiY4InrjXOMihZUbCICofIPeqlsraXyVta0oWwBn0RVULnZg_pjIGivBY7H29hQEnFg3fWrYdDplgfe3Wzg8L3j5Xw92mt1THeyZ0Z22TCfCYU6znWFmrzGgne0jkCk_tBXUj8Mqi9GUz2HhnpRfVJA2lm8KdvuTfm2Hl8DLWncExLj4acF32Ai7FZ-UCV7Ht5h6NcNv0_JWY7_S3CW11O6aPOxaH0h0_Gj1-ZjDtc6WUvuRlZsj_HW_jvTp4cJ8bR4OFcsP2U-qGxQvyGAnlpOLnaXdXmy05w4sN4ekPIVHZx9vWQLvWPeadoLdIgo_pKily2ttFaZlNs6_FpzLLQZJTsGanPEhF2kqOlSN71cDArHWJSRSi92i35nDXM8hh4lCVIw0Zwyh9f-w9K-BUd46YydkFS6wF54AK3Ls6eRTEZHiIsLeGK&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw0EGkMGs9ESF7H_mFu7cTLR" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJo4vlHDfsgbi4O60nM9hr0BHQERtFrq-lhiY4InrjXOMihZUbCICofIPeqlsraXyVta0oWwBn0RVULnZg_pjIGivBY7H29hQEnFg3fWrYdDplgfe3Wzg8L3j5Xw92mt1THeyZ0Z22TCfCYU6znWFmrzGgne0jkCk_tBXUj8Mqi9GUz2HhnpRfVJA2lm8KdvuTfm2Hl8DLWncExLj4acF32Ai7FZ-UCV7Ht5h6NcNv0_JWY7_S3CW11O6aPOxaH0h0_Gj1-ZjDtc6WUvuRlZsj_HW_jvTp4cJ8bR4OFcsP2U-qGxQvyGAnlpOLnaXdXmy05w4sN4ekPIVHZx9vWQLvWPeadoLdIgo_pKily2ttFaZlNs6_FpzLLQZJTsGanPEhF2kqOlSN71cDArHWJSRSi92i35nDXM8hh4lCVIw0Zwyh9f-w9K-BUd46YydkFS6wF54AK3Ls6eRTEZHiIsLeGK" style="color: #1155cc; 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width: 560px;" title="STORY IMAGE" width="560" /></span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As the state becomes the latest to legalize online gambling, it’s earmarking a chunk of the profits for athletic departments. “I’m excited, no matter how much it is,” one administrator said.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit;"><div class="m_980942668248918348block-grid" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col" style="display: table-cell; line-height: inherit; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col_cont" style="line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div style="border-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; padding: 10px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">LATITUDES</span></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #373d3f; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJqiurigmFzILDJkCPhunPBU6TKW08ZHO77goBvSkNrGNKuPmhaXwAwsxN1_Q4Dx8Z1HGrtwnk-NLm4mxQw73phUnwXy-s9uztbl4zP8veDFCwUvQTqNsz-3nb_IUe_ujXjVc8VGW9osN2mQI7kBq1ByilNuYGBo1Ok9gQlD6eb9vIB_68F9fGgStDc1YGgCvQlwHpNXkvlp6NGXx0PaM66FUlK5BvztKp0ILT4t3E5nBWfTkjXEynIXGaUnxOC6EJ9WkvEvRB_64jvjrvTXJyHjIlPAdrcTZ36dDZmveZv6kygNaYWFlG79aL2QbM6DEDnULk3rfMtMDYdMItANJ7RpmQPbaD3BMaeIQ1m9sTAC4M8-crwFHeMs92AAT_Zxrug%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw2UbHmEIb9kbyP5UJO4v10g" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJqiurigmFzILDJkCPhunPBU6TKW08ZHO77goBvSkNrGNKuPmhaXwAwsxN1_Q4Dx8Z1HGrtwnk-NLm4mxQw73phUnwXy-s9uztbl4zP8veDFCwUvQTqNsz-3nb_IUe_ujXjVc8VGW9osN2mQI7kBq1ByilNuYGBo1Ok9gQlD6eb9vIB_68F9fGgStDc1YGgCvQlwHpNXkvlp6NGXx0PaM66FUlK5BvztKp0ILT4t3E5nBWfTkjXEynIXGaUnxOC6EJ9WkvEvRB_64jvjrvTXJyHjIlPAdrcTZ36dDZmveZv6kygNaYWFlG79aL2QbM6DEDnULk3rfMtMDYdMItANJ7RpmQPbaD3BMaeIQ1m9sTAC4M8-crwFHeMs92AAT_Zxrug%3D" style="color: #035c9b; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For Community Colleges, New Efforts to Go Global</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><em style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">By Karin Fischer</span></span></em></span></p></div></div><div align="center" style="line-height: inherit; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJqiurigmFzILDJkCPhunPBU6TKW08ZHO77goBvSkNrGNKuPmhaXwAwsxN1_Q4Dx8Z1HGrtwnk-NLm4mxQw73phUnwXy-s9uztbl4zP8veDFCwUvQTqNsz-3nb_IUe_ujXjVc8VGW9osN2mQI7kBq1ByilNuYGBo1Ok9gQlD6eb9vIB_68F9fGgStDc1YGgCvQlwHpNXkvlp6NGXx0PaM66FUlK5BvztKp0ILT4t3E5nBRSVBO3Ni0wp0kJPr_YJ3sr7guEA2Nf6stPmB8O9ecXtDPy07swSEssvr3-1XKrUm1rcJ_9VHdON5oo8HEY3l_xSEJzvZgnuc0X7op7hB0sGivsuOPiKax_hA0N7f5JXfprIccFk-inIfhTzgQa1zGo%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw3hX5qEhWIMuhH0dwx6c6i3" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-ehuZTL6Ln7ylhpUxh6YIzJqiurigmFzILDJkCPhunPBU6TKW08ZHO77goBvSkNrGNKuPmhaXwAwsxN1_Q4Dx8Z1HGrtwnk-NLm4mxQw73phUnwXy-s9uztbl4zP8veDFCwUvQTqNsz-3nb_IUe_ujXjVc8VGW9osN2mQI7kBq1ByilNuYGBo1Ok9gQlD6eb9vIB_68F9fGgStDc1YGgCvQlwHpNXkvlp6NGXx0PaM66FUlK5BvztKp0ILT4t3E5nBRSVBO3Ni0wp0kJPr_YJ3sr7guEA2Nf6stPmB8O9ecXtDPy07swSEssvr3-1XKrUm1rcJ_9VHdON5oo8HEY3l_xSEJzvZgnuc0X7op7hB0sGivsuOPiKax_hA0N7f5JXfprIccFk-inIfhTzgQa1zGo%3D" style="color: #1155cc; 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line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A Fulbright chapter and a special training program both seek to expand international opportunities at two-year institutions.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit;"><div class="m_980942668248918348block-grid" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col" style="display: table-cell; line-height: inherit; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col_cont" style="line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div style="border-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; padding: 10px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">ADMISSIONS</span></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #373d3f; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-eorRq0G88DyHnsbhILutRrK6FyYm8ZQddJz4kNmtZODzs1wuEu0aiIwsAb5UMLxArNdo_dCsIiWlCX98SqyTKX8YscUHU9KEfvZ4xpzYuDgh-F1ITrBVqHId50YK8usIusT5Sy7mCZFOgIrC8IGEPE8Ua00ujsDV_khoPnxQD_yWcwsDRYQcFN3ozZzWJoJZWILquTA6WmeBBcALme4VG9jJm8ZBApuDsC5ssg5rpfhtyuLIGljn4yBLsJJ-FP9JrvnIMant93ZaKf3oN84bnby4z-0TibatLuKVmE5bop83eW8rszYk-RvhxCSzqzEu3obVNYQcp-6nXGt156b-TtgkOxa6JFW8TVACWypiCB8UrsF31NTxB83P0ji4mUfoBl3yq4-c-qDI91E1pHQjXQ8Q-KF78J9p4O8m7jPLLyzO&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw21nYKA8S4SwdaOsy_rcDQR" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-eorRq0G88DyHnsbhILutRrK6FyYm8ZQddJz4kNmtZODzs1wuEu0aiIwsAb5UMLxArNdo_dCsIiWlCX98SqyTKX8YscUHU9KEfvZ4xpzYuDgh-F1ITrBVqHId50YK8usIusT5Sy7mCZFOgIrC8IGEPE8Ua00ujsDV_khoPnxQD_yWcwsDRYQcFN3ozZzWJoJZWILquTA6WmeBBcALme4VG9jJm8ZBApuDsC5ssg5rpfhtyuLIGljn4yBLsJJ-FP9JrvnIMant93ZaKf3oN84bnby4z-0TibatLuKVmE5bop83eW8rszYk-RvhxCSzqzEu3obVNYQcp-6nXGt156b-TtgkOxa6JFW8TVACWypiCB8UrsF31NTxB83P0ji4mUfoBl3yq4-c-qDI91E1pHQjXQ8Q-KF78J9p4O8m7jPLLyzO" style="color: #035c9b; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In a First, Students in United States Will Take the SAT Entirely Online</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This week the students will begin taking the SAT on their own or school-provided computers. The admissions test, which will still be administered in high schools and test centers, is also an hour shorter and offers digital tools, including a highlighter, a calculator, and a bookmark to return to skipped questions. The changes aim to make cheating harder and grading easier. (NPR)</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit;"><div class="m_980942668248918348block-grid" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col" style="display: table-cell; line-height: inherit; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col_cont" style="line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div style="border-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; padding: 10px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">FACULTY</span></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #373d3f; 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line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Chico State Professor Resigned After Findings of Dishonesty and Retaliation</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The California State University campus was about to fire a biology professor, David Stachura, for dishonesty, sexual harassment, and retaliation when it agreed to withdraw the charges last month in exchange for his resignation in a deal that bars him from working again in the Cal State system, according to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-enYjqxyyuMjtE3cnWIta7YuvwEweV778LiMMXjHhoh51Odqh0fk9psKj5_ygK9r8K1LnjoRkp0IOZG0eKB_ynWpvN5paWoub7qgGGsJZ8L7IQHnamZ8LEccPSeS1Oxvl05pSke3JepaNgyKMroJpIiiP1uxlD_-urU7ggVvl1KgPc49ZkYudHuH34mTusgOHC8G6cvn6iYeusPJw4L3pU_utzOPuM4ylGDOVYbSyEMmUpjHIBsH5DNBANp72VE9CpyotrHJu6z8mqMVAs01CcBBazPNYM3Iw5PX_1mB433PaGIiGE-JJoC24ywsxxaaiCtwhFLanJQFdPhrXlMqjEk6eyYJEBItWZe39-2_FF7yYrgBleHh0Yg8dosrn0s-z-OHSXWEXE66TA0nWfV3ekE343uY6EFsqR8-c0ZY2wztgKkmXBroAY1tWaDywyXBu_Gw57H0cJpDMEB8krGwP5wucyq6T2iCdJyMlyT3KXrUF&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw1RL8Z-RSnzUl-sJpmqswa_" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-enYjqxyyuMjtE3cnWIta7YuvwEweV778LiMMXjHhoh51Odqh0fk9psKj5_ygK9r8K1LnjoRkp0IOZG0eKB_ynWpvN5paWoub7qgGGsJZ8L7IQHnamZ8LEccPSeS1Oxvl05pSke3JepaNgyKMroJpIiiP1uxlD_-urU7ggVvl1KgPc49ZkYudHuH34mTusgOHC8G6cvn6iYeusPJw4L3pU_utzOPuM4ylGDOVYbSyEMmUpjHIBsH5DNBANp72VE9CpyotrHJu6z8mqMVAs01CcBBazPNYM3Iw5PX_1mB433PaGIiGE-JJoC24ywsxxaaiCtwhFLanJQFdPhrXlMqjEk6eyYJEBItWZe39-2_FF7yYrgBleHh0Yg8dosrn0s-z-OHSXWEXE66TA0nWfV3ekE343uY6EFsqR8-c0ZY2wztgKkmXBroAY1tWaDywyXBu_Gw57H0cJpDMEB8krGwP5wucyq6T2iCdJyMlyT3KXrUF" style="color: #1155cc; 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line-height: inherit;" target="_blank">series of revelations</a> about the case.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: inherit;"><div class="m_980942668248918348block-grid" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col" style="display: table-cell; line-height: inherit; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col_cont" style="line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div style="border-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; padding: 10px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">CAMPUS CUTS</span></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #373d3f; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-eqyJ5QVSt_NI7d3wcujqVnQnTKEaE6L6n_HfUq_zpgt2Eqwdy0ZMehMa-Taon0Us4tZy-D-ggDZT0Wn31KrIjPP471KkVqRzcCnOLsbwwagb2jNm2vSsuNuDu5NZXOKuy5xD8tWlsw1pZfw8W4NS4IIGEjMQQjSr4SuSkMB0x4daOf-SeavmHBE-UsSHlA0aUQLr_GKUybKx6T6D3FvRTHnjoWN8B2wHj85FNoBrK6I6PP9P5C7k5Cw9ec7EzQ2UrbHEFuY1TLsboOq5sll9YnUlLhH-3kvZXirGc5E2cSMg9JZM7GJQT8q_aaWq5XU07UUxvkTv65hrHvd8MEOZmwKGEOVIGS3Jeb62yzg28GbqloCsi5go4r4PU-Muxp1MqlCRsUqUywecWlAevGL-kS7Y8pFx3fmfo-egFrbYehH7BXVLWWR_pYr_pRg2QWklo2jm4OJQY1FIc6YAr67XNOc%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw25hXpcCQse3A4Fly9edFCt" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-eqyJ5QVSt_NI7d3wcujqVnQnTKEaE6L6n_HfUq_zpgt2Eqwdy0ZMehMa-Taon0Us4tZy-D-ggDZT0Wn31KrIjPP471KkVqRzcCnOLsbwwagb2jNm2vSsuNuDu5NZXOKuy5xD8tWlsw1pZfw8W4NS4IIGEjMQQjSr4SuSkMB0x4daOf-SeavmHBE-UsSHlA0aUQLr_GKUybKx6T6D3FvRTHnjoWN8B2wHj85FNoBrK6I6PP9P5C7k5Cw9ec7EzQ2UrbHEFuY1TLsboOq5sll9YnUlLhH-3kvZXirGc5E2cSMg9JZM7GJQT8q_aaWq5XU07UUxvkTv65hrHvd8MEOZmwKGEOVIGS3Jeb62yzg28GbqloCsi5go4r4PU-Muxp1MqlCRsUqUywecWlAevGL-kS7Y8pFx3fmfo-egFrbYehH7BXVLWWR_pYr_pRg2QWklo2jm4OJQY1FIc6YAr67XNOc%3D" style="color: #035c9b; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Drake U., in Iowa, Recommends Cutting Academic Programs and Positions</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The provost said a review had suggested dropping 13 undergraduate majors, minors, and certificates, and terminating nine faculty members. The proposed cuts, intended to help close a $14.3-million deficit, face votes by the Faculty Senate and the Board of Trustees. (<i style="line-height: inherit;">Iowa Capital Dispatch</i>)</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: inherit;"><div class="m_980942668248918348block-grid" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col" style="display: table-cell; line-height: inherit; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><div class="m_980942668248918348col_cont" style="line-height: inherit; width: 600px;"><div style="border-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; padding: 10px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">ELECTION 2024</span></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #373d3f; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t%3Dd6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544%26_m%3D6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548%26_e%3Dp1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-etbxcHiRo_c7MAwPb7hZF5V1nmMGDbzEJlXUNU4zr2HvleEGRQmTxsDiJGNUDbOGKOzJQ4biq7b9HA1kYjEpE6UrAdWbucPYV6Yz-vRmfx6eMiXzUrTtFPw04azKBG-0zE8ZA3Ntl9fetTbNGernntAnfPaYpLu3lhfJUPt45vpCtvLyvwMDtBXPzlTUxnjWoCj_Zdj5ul5f7sRdlHh_ngMPkju_nMizIrKo24f-s1xVQ6lp3ArFdUZ_5CQa-VaT3Ruf482G55QfDq9uO3fUrCPkf1BGJ0hdCr_kYxxv1WRVnmrOi09YqISx86_xTimiSCk_jXxuOUpqTMZtVUY6IwgwdzfWWhC0CNlJSsqrIJkW0M-rkVi8wlEU-ubCm5GRid0qbOfnWWCnapGIR8qa6NLO1zyDYdJX9u1vf3QLbmByrDZsOdAmvF0P0ub1hGmwZg%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1710188188720000&usg=AOvVaw2Vup8uStwGnk_sU_NRQQit" href="http://links2.newsletter.chronicle.com/u/click?_t=d6b85331c7f64991b3bfd8ac52407544&_m=6cfd7c2fc7404e6690fd8e927dd89548&_e=p1zJzOrMyaYabuP7RTO-etbxcHiRo_c7MAwPb7hZF5V1nmMGDbzEJlXUNU4zr2HvleEGRQmTxsDiJGNUDbOGKOzJQ4biq7b9HA1kYjEpE6UrAdWbucPYV6Yz-vRmfx6eMiXzUrTtFPw04azKBG-0zE8ZA3Ntl9fetTbNGernntAnfPaYpLu3lhfJUPt45vpCtvLyvwMDtBXPzlTUxnjWoCj_Zdj5ul5f7sRdlHh_ngMPkju_nMizIrKo24f-s1xVQ6lp3ArFdUZ_5CQa-VaT3Ruf482G55QfDq9uO3fUrCPkf1BGJ0hdCr_kYxxv1WRVnmrOi09YqISx86_xTimiSCk_jXxuOUpqTMZtVUY6IwgwdzfWWhC0CNlJSsqrIJkW0M-rkVi8wlEU-ubCm5GRid0qbOfnWWCnapGIR8qa6NLO1zyDYdJX9u1vf3QLbmByrDZsOdAmvF0P0ub1hGmwZg%3D%3D" style="color: #035c9b; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">North Carolina Voters Choose College Student Over Veteran Legislator in GOP Primary</span></a></strong></span></p></div></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 10px 10px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6; padding: 10px;"><div style="line-height: 1.6;"><p style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">Wyatt Gable, a 21-year-old undergraduate at East Carolina University, narrowly defeated Rep. George Cleveland, 84, who has served in the state’s House for nearly 20 years. Gable, who is president of his campus’s Turning Point USA chapter, will face Carmen Spicer, the Democratic nominee, in November’s general election. (<i style="line-height: inherit;">Newsweek</i>)</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-57926045466458440952024-03-04T12:00:00.000-08:002024-03-04T12:00:00.136-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week: On the #Education Front <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">As our weekly "Virtual Route 66" continues, our team pulled together the following #RandomThoughts on the Education Front as we ramp up our Education Focus here in the Education Corner: </span> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: HelveticaNeue, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px 10px; width: 640px;"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" id="m_1484649910623736748header" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="640"><div align="center"><br /></div></td></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="30" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="640"></td></tr><tr id="m_1484649910623736748simplerss-content-row" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="640"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 640px;"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="30"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="580"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 580px;"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="580"><p align="left" class="m_1484649910623736748article-title m_1484649910623736748with-meta" style="color: #c25130; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-b/&source=gmail&ust=1709579245194000&usg=AOvVaw0a322POhAVPUb8WRfMO_Rx" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-b/" style="color: #c25130; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="How Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams Derailed America’s Schools">How Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams Derailed America’s Schools</a></p><p align="left" class="m_1484649910623736748article-meta" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Posted by Frederick Hess on 27 February, 2024</p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td height="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" class="m_1484649910623736748article-content" style="color: #444444; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 13px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><img alt="Robin Williams stands on his desk in the film Dead Poets Society" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZWYUGJUuHVAgh_m4pOr5hr_T1peaBX1wkGNY-3F0AbjdrORTy0t2kjRj53WOPj6klt0xc6eRqznCibcgUOqVc7MVu9bPGjkjXw1uM5Plk2y1TtVKTnBb9MCRGYwGeEw1GhcE0qIaFpfxfUaHUsWkZErj0utORB1QhdFq6kztxtXVTVww80jQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://i0.wp.com/www.educationnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/feb24-blog-oldschool-williams.png?w=1400&ssl=1" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" /></p></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">My new book, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-n/&source=gmail&ust=1709579245195000&usg=AOvVaw0dz9ty4Xx-D1WdJj2WEWBW" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-n/" rel="noopener" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>Getting Education Right</em></a><em>,</em> dropped last week. In it, Mike McShane and I do our best to sketch a principled conservative vision of how to improve early childhood, K–12, and higher ed. But rather than get all wonky here, I thought it worth addressing a broader thread we dwell upon near book’s end: how Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams derailed America’s schools.</span></p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-p/&source=gmail&ust=1709579245195000&usg=AOvVaw2-PAibtfW3m0mqfbLHZPSO" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tihlkdit-uthiutuhid-p/" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="How Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams Derailed America’s Schools"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Read more →</span></a></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; width: 580px;"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="580"><p align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-title m_-4661997904409795457with-meta" style="color: #c25130; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-b/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw1v-bltI-HlYDAAyDc4hb4V" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-b/" style="color: #c25130; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Doing Educational Equity Right: School Closures"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Doing Educational Equity Right: School Closures</span></a></p><p align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-meta" style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Posted by Michael J. Petrilli on 26 February, 2024</span></p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td height="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-content" style="color: #444444; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><img alt="One desk in an empty classroom" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYycYNQzuxCMsTReXdj04W88-kTBnEMvWQW2ltFKydf2Vy5p-L_JOABXxV3NCHD_bpZO-SgVfwTOL4w88ERypHn5ZSjZIGJd5PCHv9kslBs7qczTBghGk78f9zPFVgheKkug1EDsjk7BUjGj59phAHDTnYltZVQLwfEEGX6ZFzrYdoJwX4qaj4bzgA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://i0.wp.com/www.educationnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/feb24-blog-petrilli-school-closed.png?w=1400&ssl=1" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" /></p></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><em>This is the fifth in a series on doing educational equity right. See the </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-n/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw2CTJWN5SjmIAh3qQODf1eC" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-n/" rel="noopener" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>introductory post</em></a><em>, as well as ones on </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-p/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw0OGVpQ7j7Bt2NDEnVlgJaP" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-p/" rel="noopener" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>school finance</em></a><em>, </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-x/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw1GWg44LYU0cp-cUGI-PgD2" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-x/" rel="noopener" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>student discipline</em></a><em>, and </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-m/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw2lQ34SRnf1M9EI0-t6ISmq" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-m/" rel="noopener" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>advanced education</em></a>.</span></p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-c/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw1w10QUP3zImGmi553Ep2P3" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-c/" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Doing Educational Equity Right: School Closures"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Read more →</span></a></p></div></td></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td height="10" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="580"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; width: 580px;"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="580"><p align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-title m_-4661997904409795457with-meta" style="color: #c25130; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-q/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw2PvHn0dKgvxlCzLkv1zfY0" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-q/" style="color: #c25130; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="The Education Exchange: A Chronic Case of Truancy"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">The Education Exchange: A Chronic Case of Truancy</span></a></p><p align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-meta" style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Posted by Education Next on 26 February, 2024</span></p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr style="border-collapse: collapse;"><td height="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;" width="15"></td><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" class="m_-4661997904409795457article-content" style="color: #444444; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 0px;"><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"></p></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><img alt="Photo of Nat Malkus" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZW95C3dPS-iFzWVsA5VEg89iS3eFf2uX-IQk_F4v2LwFRhWPhjx1KWAvIf_bU0FwAL0iVi0AAxVeoHwen7Q-jQ985gmDxPkeqFA8yirm39mI1cxiBl2exUOlAGLstlOWZJTrk11bZvfVnJv8xmd2VXhcl6vxq2G2oqA-zVm0uO3UfPwpMW=s0-d-e1-ft#https://i0.wp.com/www.educationnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/feb24-podcast-exchange-malkus.png?w=400&ssl=1" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" /><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Nat Malkus, a senior fellow and the deputy director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Malkus’s latest report, which looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on chronic absenteeism in schools.</span></p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-a/&source=gmail&ust=1709579247909000&usg=AOvVaw3LfrUL8aZmqrS2o5yzG1su" href="https://educationnext.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tidutkhy-uthiutuhid-a/" style="color: #3f6569; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="The Education Exchange: A Chronic Case of Truancy"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Read more →</span></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-31854461497294196482024-02-28T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-28T00:00:00.132-08:00On Our Final "Virtual Route 66" For Feburary 2024: On Career Advise ((Courtesy Ryan Holiday)) <p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw95859ku5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMzctcGllY2VzLW9mLWNhcmVlci1hZHZpY2UtaS13aXNoLWlkLWtub3duLWVhcmxpZXIv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw2T2WCTawmDLsZEQknj4LEk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw95859ku5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMzctcGllY2VzLW9mLWNhcmVlci1hZHZpY2UtaS13aXNoLWlkLWtub3duLWVhcmxpZXIv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier</a></span></h2><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 756.016px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw95859ku5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMzctcGllY2VzLW9mLWNhcmVlci1hZHZpY2UtaS13aXNoLWlkLWtub3duLWVhcmxpZXIv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw2T2WCTawmDLsZEQknj4LEk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw95859ku5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMzctcGllY2VzLW9mLWNhcmVlci1hZHZpY2UtaS13aXNoLWlkLWtub3duLWVhcmxpZXIv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; display: block;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi4xhsU64gfG6jLNJhtTmE5_gvjvBKez8RMHFCTBovDvLe-Y4uUkkUFSI7Iueq_a-PNmbBKZzOrmDED4D5_962KeEY5GdYEFb58-HI2j91ufkWILfhms6MUMZHmes_cqtuIYjHSIdo8GUTBfFvRHjW837kf1N1RRkWc1_dHs-YMB4IPSWOeO8c5ciQoNQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 800px;" width="800" /></a><figcaption style="margin-top: 0.4em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">From my first desk job working at my college newspaper.</span></figcaption></figure></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em></em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/e0hph7h0q898qvs8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2lkZWJhci5jb20vaG9saWRheS8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1ob2xpZGF5JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249d2FpdGxpc3QmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9Mg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw1220lbKgFOON6BGMZT50iB" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/e0hph7h0q898qvs8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2lkZWJhci5jb20vaG9saWRheS8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1ob2xpZGF5JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249d2FpdGxpc3QmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9Mg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Today’s newsletter is brought to you by Sidebar</em></a><em>. Read more at the bottom.</em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">My first job was working at a small deli and grocery store in Lake Tahoe when I was 15. It was a job that came full circle some twenty years later when my wife and I bought a place called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/p8heh9hzgnkngnfq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHJhY3lzZ3JvY2VyeS5jb20v&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw0uIiLHww4rSZ1kEXilg7RV" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/p8heh9hzgnkngnfq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHJhY3lzZ3JvY2VyeS5jb20v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Tracy’s Drive-In Grocery</a> in 2021, a little place that’s been in business since 1940.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I’ve had my fair share of gigs in between.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I worked in fast food. I was the director of marketing for a publicly traded company. I’ve been a lifeguard. I dropped out of college to be a research assistant to an author. I worked a desk at a talent agency in Beverly Hills. I’ve started multiple businesses. I’ve freelanced. I’ve been lucky enough to speak and consult with multi-billion dollar companies and Super Bowl winning sports franchises, family offices and law firms.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I wouldn’t say I’ve done it all because that’s one thing you learn–how much you have left to learn–but I have done <em>a lot.</em> I’ve had to think a lot about how to be a good employee as well as how to be a good boss. I’ve seen what makes good companies succeed and bad companies fail. I’ve seen how people get ahead…and how people get stuff.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I’ve also written a lot about this over the years, as I was figuring it out. In fact, many times I had to talk to bosses about this “little thing I do on the side” which was writing until eventually, the business stuff itself because of the stuff I do on the side. And now I have to have the conversation the other way with the people who work for me at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/58hvh7hmkrprkeb6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw06Q543ykt0jbeGjqEf3nWQ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/58hvh7hmkrprkeb6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Daily Stoic</a> or <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474plcr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnJhc3NjaGVjay5uZXQv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw1J63RFshTe8AhvvioHqoHt" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474plcr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnJhc3NjaGVjay5uZXQv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Brass Check</a> or at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw3NhPtrNmkEwNkxTVcOtI5F" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The Painted Porch</a> or at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/p8heh9hzgnkngnfq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHJhY3lzZ3JvY2VyeS5jb20v&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw0uIiLHww4rSZ1kEXilg7RV" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/p8heh9hzgnkngnfq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHJhY3lzZ3JvY2VyeS5jb20v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Tracy’s</a>: Ok, but what do you <em>really</em> want to do and how can I help you get there?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Anyway, this post is about that. The best of those lessons—things I wish I’d been told when I was just starting and things I still tell myself. Some of them might be exactly what you need to hear right now. Some might not apply to you yet, or ever. That’s okay. Whether you’re just starting out, looking to make a big change, or aiming to reach new heights in your current role, I hope you’ll find something here that helps you navigate your own unique path.</span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; list-style-position: outside !important; margin: 1em 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Be quiet, work hard, and stay healthy. It’s not ambition or skill that is going to set you apart but sanity.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I remember once I called Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel, about some little success I’d had on some project. He was very busy and frustrated that I’d interrupted, but politely, he said, “Ryan, you are calling me to tell me that you did your job.” I thought of that conversation when I saw that famous scene in Mad Men where Peggy complains that Don never says thank you. “<em>That’s what the money is for!”</em> he tells her.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The thing that’s wrong about imposter syndrome is that for the most part no one is thinking about you at all. They’re too busy with their own doubts and their own work.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When I was starting out as an assistant in Hollywood, someone told me that the best thing I could do was make my boss look good. Don’t worry about credit, they said. Forget credit so hard that you’re glad when other people get it instead of you. It ended up being pretty decent advice, but it was nowhere near the right wording. I think a better way to express it would be: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/08hwh9hdg303z2ul/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvY2FyZWVyLWFkdmljZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw3IkXWY2EEOzXUqcdoe0bZx" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/08hwh9hdg303z2ul/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvY2FyZWVyLWFkdmljZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Find canvases for other people to paint on</a>. Come up with ideas to hand over to your boss. Find people, thinkers, up and comers to introduce them to. Cross wires to create new sparks. Find what nobody else wants to do and do it. Find inefficiency and waste and redundancies. Identify leaks and patches to free up resources for new areas. Produce more than everyone else and give your ideas away. The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Very rarely have I ever let anyone go because they did not have the skills to do their job. It’s almost always their unwillingness to learn those skills or their inability to take feedback.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When I was 20 years old, I was working at this talent agency in Hollywood, and I got invited to this important meeting. As they were talking about stuff, I interjected and said something. My mentor took me aside after and he said, why did you say that? Did you think it actually needed to be said or did you just feel like you wanted to have something to say? I think about that all the time. It’s in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/m2h7h5h8mdkde2tm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy80OC1sYXdzLW9mLXBvd2Vy&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw04qCJgL9Js6IGYv4Gwhptd" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/m2h7h5h8mdkde2tm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy80OC1sYXdzLW9mLXBvd2Vy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The 48 Laws of Power</em></a> — Always say less than necessary. Saying less than necessary, not interjecting at every chance we get—this is actually the mark not just of a self-disciplined person, but also a very smart and wise person.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The boss/mentor/biz can’t want you to succeed more than you want it. You have to be the driver of your own life/career/advancement.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I was working full time at American Apparel but planning my next move, saving my money and thinking about writing a book. Over lunch one day, Robert Greene told me, Ryan, while people wait for the right moment, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/e0hph7h0q8984vs8/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvd2lsbC15b3UtY2hvb3NlLWFsaXZlLXRpbWUtb3ItZGVhZC10aW1lLyM6fjp0ZXh0PUhlJTIwdG9sZCUyMG1lJTIwdGhlcmUlMjBhcmUsbGVhcm5pbmclMjBhbmQlMjBpbXByb3ZpbmclMjBhbmQlMjBncm93aW5nLg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw07XDRjLKJC0NsN4cXGFda1" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/e0hph7h0q8984vs8/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvd2lsbC15b3UtY2hvb3NlLWFsaXZlLXRpbWUtb3ItZGVhZC10aW1lLyM6fjp0ZXh0PUhlJTIwdG9sZCUyMG1lJTIwdGhlcmUlMjBhcmUsbGVhcm5pbmclMjBhbmQlMjBpbXByb3ZpbmclMjBhbmQlMjBncm93aW5nLg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">there are two types of time</a>: Dead time—where they are passive and biding and Alive time—where they are learning and acting and getting the most out of every second. Which will this be for you?</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When you’re lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When I first moved to Austin in 2013, I went out to lunch—fittingly—with a writer named Austin Kleon. I was a longtime fan of his book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/z2hghnh3pq9qw2fp/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nNz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD05MGM0MTI1YTQmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw2nGE0-kXxNCp8_CoqlEwkk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/z2hghnh3pq9qw2fp/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nNz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD05MGM0MTI1YTQmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Steal Like an Artist</em></a> (his book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/6qheh8h7nmvmo3to/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nMz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1iOGFkODg0NzImX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw3YGSn5JuZjuVig7XKVSKz7" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/6qheh8h7nmvmo3to/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nMz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1iOGFkODg0NzImX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Keep Going</em></a> is another favorite). After we ate, he drove me around the city, showing me things and giving me advice. Austin was a little older than me and already married with kids. I remember asking him how he made time for it all. “I don’t,” he told me. “Life is about tradeoffs.” And then he gave me a little rule that has stuck with me always: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/25h2hoh24krknrc3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvd29yay1mYW1pbHktc2NlbmUv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185563000&usg=AOvVaw1yqEfklPj_WJnT1ugYRao6" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/25h2hoh24krknrc3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvd29yay1mYW1pbHktc2NlbmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Work, family, scene. Pick two</a>. Your creative output, your personal relationships, and your social life—balancing all three is impossible. You can excel in two if you say no to one. If you can’t, you’ll have none.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Lengthen your timeline. Opening my bookstore, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw2Cc8aAyg1F9HzVfUwbt4hO" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The Painted Porch</a> (delayed a year by COVID) taught me that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474xlir/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvaXQtYWx3YXlzLXRha2VzLWxvbmdlci10aGFuLXlvdS1leHBlY3Qv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw3xUDSU304tF1RJoFpB3gwk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474xlir/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvaXQtYWx3YXlzLXRha2VzLWxvbmdlci10aGFuLXlvdS1leHBlY3Qv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">it always takes longer than you think it’s going to take</a>. That’s Hofstadter’s law. And even when you take the law into account, you’re still surprised.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/wnh2hghwxe9e8ra7/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvYWxsLXN1Y2Nlc3MtaXMtYS1sYWdnaW5nLWluZGljYXRvci8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw1I6_WmGTHx8xRDcp5vptfR" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/wnh2hghwxe9e8ra7/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvYWxsLXN1Y2Nlc3MtaXMtYS1sYWdnaW5nLWluZGljYXRvci8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">All success is a lagging indicator</a>… all the good stuff (and bad stuff) is downstream from choices made long before.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Lyndon Johnson said that the way to get things done <em>was to get close to those who are at the center of things.</em></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Robert Greene’s metaphor for mastery is being on the inside of something. When we start a new sport, when we get our first job, when we approach a field we haven’t yet studied, we are on the outside of. But as we put in the work, as we familiarize ourselves with every component, as we develop our intuitive field, we eventually make our way to the inside. This is a metaphor from Robert I think about constantly. I don’t want to be an outsider on anything I do, I want to make my way inside it.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Focus on effort, not outcomes. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/vqh3hrhpez2z8gug/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQveW91ci13b3JrLWlzLXRoZS1vbmx5LXRoaW5nLXRoYXQtbWF0dGVycy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw1FpOZD1B22X_VuUqtP5P6w" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/vqh3hrhpez2z8gug/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQveW91ci13b3JrLWlzLXRoZS1vbmx5LXRoaW5nLXRoYXQtbWF0dGVycy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Just try to make contact with the ball</a>. Give your best effort, make contact with the ball. Let the rest take care of itself.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In 2013, I started a business with a partner that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/m2h7h5h8mdkdw2um/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlLXBlcmZlY3Qtc3BvdXNlLWlzLXRoZS1iZXN0LWxpZmUtaGFjay1uby1vbmUtdG9sZC15b3UtYWJvdXQv&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw3_mzCFkvXrJW87s-HoNRyB" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/m2h7h5h8mdkdw2um/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlLXBlcmZlY3Qtc3BvdXNlLWlzLXRoZS1iZXN0LWxpZmUtaGFjay1uby1vbmUtdG9sZC15b3UtYWJvdXQv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">my wife warned me against working with</a>. I remember explaining to her why she was wrong and that I couldn’t possibly not do this because of some vague gut instinct of hers. The business turned into a nightmare, and it turned out that this partner was not someone I should have worked with. This shares a commonality with almost all my mistakes and regrets: Not listening to my wife from the beginning. You have to learn whose judgment to trust. You have to learn who knows you better than you know yourself, and you have to be able to trust and defer to them.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The trope that a day job takes away from your art or your hustle is stupid. There was a great exhibition at the Blanton Museum a couple years ago about artists who had day jobs. I wrote 3.5 books while I was the Director of Marketing at American Apparel. I started my own marketing company while I was a writer. I have my <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw2Cc8aAyg1F9HzVfUwbt4hO" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/48hvhehr64z4g2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">bookstore</a>. A job for someone coming up is like a trust fund you’ve earned. It helps.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Learning is priceless. Robert Greene used to have to nag me to submit my hours when I worked for him. To me, the money was an afterthought, I knew the real return was my access to him, that he would answer my questions, that I could see how a real pro did the job.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">My career in Hollywood came to an end when one of the talent managers took a dislike to me (I told this story at the beginning of my <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/7qh7h8howrvr35az/aHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnNwb3RpZnkuY29tL2VwaXNvZGUvM1ZiR3lpeDdHT296Z2c4c3J5MlRtcj9zaT1vUW1meE1PSVRuQ0RDZFgzekRhc2h3&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw0PyC6T0ReAT_ibsC_P1s26" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/7qh7h8howrvr35az/aHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnNwb3RpZnkuY29tL2VwaXNvZGUvM1ZiR3lpeDdHT296Z2c4c3J5MlRtcj9zaT1vUW1meE1PSVRuQ0RDZFgzekRhc2h3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">appearance on Joe Rogan</a>). When I ended up at American Apparel, I asked Robert Greene about how to prevent that from happening. He pointed out my problem before was that I had only had one ally or patron. I needed to cultivate relationships with multiple decision makers/power brokers at the new company, especially a place as political and full of intrigue as American Apparel. So that’s what I did–you don’t want to be dependent on a single thread or a single vote of confidence. You need redundancies. You need relationships.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When you’re building a business, salaries/staff can feel expensive. But if you succeed, you’ll regret giving up equity so cheaply.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Dov Charney said another thing to me that I think about a lot. I was pointing out that some store (which had just opened) wasn’t doing well. He said, “Run rates always start at zero.” The point there was: Don’t be discouraged at the outset. It takes time to build up from nothing.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">There is a story about an exchange between Jerry Seinfeld and a young comedian. The comedian approaches Seinfeld in a club one night and asks him for advice about marketing and getting exposure. <em>Exposure? Marketing?</em> Seinfeld asks. <em>Just work on your act. </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/vqh3hrhpez2z8gug/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQveW91ci13b3JrLWlzLXRoZS1vbmx5LXRoaW5nLXRoYXQtbWF0dGVycy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw1FpOZD1B22X_VuUqtP5P6w" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/vqh3hrhpez2z8gug/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQveW91ci13b3JrLWlzLXRoZS1vbmx5LXRoaW5nLXRoYXQtbWF0dGVycy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Your work is the only thing that matters</a>.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Talking about what you’re going to do makes you a lot less likely to actually do it. Keep your plans to yourself.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The distinction between amateur and professional is an essential piece of advice I have gotten, first from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw9585xqs5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nOD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1hZmU4ODgzOWMmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw2WN9TENd5en615T_byZpTC" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/x0hph6hw9585xqs5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93cml0aW5nOD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1hZmU4ODgzOWMmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Steven Pressfield’s writings</a> and then by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/58hvh7hmkrprlea6/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS84eHpQY1ZTcW53dz9mZWF0dXJlPXNoYXJlZA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw23VrL3S6vEj5zjPRkqqptj" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/58hvh7hmkrprlea6/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS84eHpQY1ZTcW53dz9mZWF0dXJlPXNoYXJlZA==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">getting to know him</a> over the years. There are professional habits and amateur ones. Which are you practicing? Is this a pro or an amateur move? Ask yourself that. Constantly.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Peter Thiel: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474glbr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGlrdG9rLmNvbS9AZGFpbHlfc3RvaWMvdmlkZW8vNzI0NDY0NzczOTA4NTExNDY2Ng%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw0zZ5SYlToLg34e_UyrgYzD" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/g3hnh5h36474glbr/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGlrdG9rLmNvbS9AZGFpbHlfc3RvaWMvdmlkZW8vNzI0NDY0NzczOTA4NTExNDY2Ng==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">“Competition is for losers.”</a> I loved this the second I heard it. When people compete, somebody loses. So go where you’re the only one. Do what only you can do. Run a race with yourself.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The idea of “Fuck Yes…or No” is far too simple and has caused me quite a lot of grief. Dropping out of college, I was maybe 51/49 on it. Leaving my corporate job to become a writer, maybe 60/40. Right now I’m about to do something big that I am both excited and terrified about. The point is: The certainty comes later. The truly life-changing decisions are never simple. If I had only ever done things I was absolutely certain about, I’d have missed out on experiences I love. Conversely, I regret a good chunk of my “Fuck yes’s” because I was <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/3ohphkh74e6ex9br/aHR0cHM6Ly90aG91Z2h0Y2F0YWxvZy5jb20vcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LzIwMTYvMDYvZG9udC1mb2xsb3cteW91ci1wYXNzaW9uLWl0cy13aGF0cy1ob2xkaW5nLXlvdS1iYWNrLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw2yDNROXnCsGYX4YrTvdOKz" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/3ohphkh74e6ex9br/aHR0cHM6Ly90aG91Z2h0Y2F0YWxvZy5jb20vcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LzIwMTYvMDYvZG9udC1mb2xsb3cteW91ci1wYXNzaW9uLWl0cy13aGF0cy1ob2xkaW5nLXlvdS1iYWNrLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">caught up in a fit of passion</a> or bias. The whole point of risk <em>is that you don’t know.</em></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">There is a story about the manager of Iron Maiden, one of the greatest metal bands of all time. At a dinner honoring the band, a young agent comes up to him and says how much he admires his skillful work in the music business. The manager looks at him and says, “HA! You think I am in the music business? No. I’m in the Iron fucking Maiden business.” The idea being that you want to <em>be in the business of YOU</em>. Not of your respective industry. Not of the critics. Not of the fads and trends and what everyone else is doing.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If you can afford to, delegate it. If you can’t yet afford to, automate it. Time is the most precious resource.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The best coaches and CEOs aren’t the ones who succeed just on the field or in the boardroom. The true greats are measured by their coaching tree—what the people who worked for them, who they mentored, who they inspired go on to do.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The thing I’ve learned about leveling up in your career, or breaking through different ceilings, is that you really only realize that it happened in retrospect. Just like you don’t notice your hair growing or your face aging, you can’t really feel it as it’s happening. Be patient—evaluate later. Don’t kick yourself now because you think you’re stuck. You might be the opposite of stuck and just not know it.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Be able to adapt and make use of new tools. I have no idea what the long term implications of artificial technology will be, all I know is that the best approach as an individual is to find a way to use it to get better at what you do.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Having now been in pro locker rooms and boardrooms and briefing rooms with special forces operators and the Senate dining room—all very different worlds—I have come to believe that elite performance is elite performance is elite performance. While these folks all do very different jobs at very different levels of fame or fortune, they’re all basically thinking about the same handful of things, accessing the same core mental skills: Resilience. Creativity. Focus. Collaboration.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The best decision I ever made was taking a pay cut to write <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/reh8hoh0wg9gk0i2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708991185564000&usg=AOvVaw2I2-RRVMCyX_-rd6mk_bQd" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmuvzv7k2ncmh02edk0u3idxdv400/reh8hoh0wg9gk0i2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Obstacle is The Way</em></a> (less than half what I got for my first book). I knew it was what I wanted to write. I thought it could sell. I had my day job. It still seemed like a TON of money to me. Sometimes you have to take a step back to go forward.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em>But if I am content with what I have, won’t I stop getting better?</em> No. We play better with house money. Feel better too.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If you never hear no from clients, if the other side in a negotiation has never balked to something you’ve asked for, then you are not pricing yourself high enough, you are not being aggressive enough.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">If it makes you a worse person (parent, neighbor, writer, whatever), it’s not success. If starting a business stresses you out, if it tears your relationships apart, if it makes you bitter or frustrated with people—then it doesn’t matter how much money it makes or external praise it receives. It’s not successful.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A friend of mine just left a very important job that a lot of people would kill for. When he left I said, “If you can’t walk away, then you don’t have the job…the job has you.”</span></li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-72755015443406667962024-02-23T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-23T00:00:00.140-08:00On Our Virtual Route 66: On Our World <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1RMtttOUqbmp9sYNovuliqcgESLVKmCdXG0-GcTv7F5dvd_mx6VEyON5mms3ZZDXaMik006lEpJSZXpdDHAzWlCXS4Tjk_jGMEzfk_73bZ23XBrkR86X85TzDRvGqfC8qyt3hKzx_HQApV28WMUjJQ6IDMkAKf936FcZzP1gpRpoqaPox83SyV7SzFj1/s522/Kobe%20Speaks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="522" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1RMtttOUqbmp9sYNovuliqcgESLVKmCdXG0-GcTv7F5dvd_mx6VEyON5mms3ZZDXaMik006lEpJSZXpdDHAzWlCXS4Tjk_jGMEzfk_73bZ23XBrkR86X85TzDRvGqfC8qyt3hKzx_HQApV28WMUjJQ6IDMkAKf936FcZzP1gpRpoqaPox83SyV7SzFj1/s320/Kobe%20Speaks.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present a set of Random Thoughts on the Education Front courtesy of Stanford University and the Visual Capitalist as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve:</span><p></p><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #f7e7e7; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px none; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 18px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong><span style="font-family: Combo;">IN THIS EMAIL: </span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Upcoming Events:</strong> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3D04d2f03a3c%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw2PnH7KWuFTe-GRIG9U5Aqd" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=04d2f03a3c&e=5b9424d265" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Forugh Farrokhzad</a> (Feb 22) | <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3Df034271390%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw2ewidHmJwu03EYLRtQlAEa" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=f034271390&e=5b9424d265" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Iranian Masculinities</a> (Feb 29)<br /><strong>Around Campus</strong>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3Df61e5e08c9%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw0NXw3g_sp4NRA0oz2CKj7c" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=f61e5e08c9&e=5b9424d265" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Mahan Esfahani Concert </a>(March 6)<br /><strong>For Stanford Students:</strong> Norooz celebration (March 5) </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 18px 18px 0px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top" width="546"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: dimgrey;"><b> </b></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>The United States, the West, and the 1979 Revolution, with Dr. Abbas Milani</strong></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">On the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this Iran International episode of "Witness to History" features an interview with Dr. Abbas Milani analyzing the policies of the United States and Western allies toward the final months of the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. <em>In Persian/Farsi</em>. </span></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnImageCardTopImageContent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 0px 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnImageCardRightImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnImageCardRightTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 346px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 18px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>Narratives From the Victims of Flight PS752</strong></span><br /><strong>October 26, 2023. In Persian/Farsi. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion, Ms. Moniro Ravanipour,<br />and guest Ms. Azadeh Heydaripour</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 3px solid rgb(185, 36, 36); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: dimgrey; font-family: Combo;"><strong>UPCOMING EVENTS</strong></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>Forugh Farrokhzad: A New Edition of Her Collected Works</strong></span><br /><strong>Domenico Ingenito</strong><br />Thursday, February 22th, 6:30-8:00 PM PT | In Person</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftContentOuter" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 176px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 352px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Professor Domenico Ingenito discusses his new book offering a critical edition and Italian translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s entire poetic production. Farrokhzad (1934-1967) is the first female Iranian poet who playfully renegotiated the formal rules and dominant imagery of classical Persian poetry and wrote about sex and desire from the perspective of women.<br />Until recently, due to censorship and editorial misunderstandings, no reliable editions of Forugh Farrokhzad’s collected works were available on the market. Dr. Ingenito’s new book features the Persian text of all the original collections of poetry published by Farrokhzad during her lifetime, along with pieces published posthumously, verses co-authored with Yadollah Roya’i, lines extracted from the film Khāne siyāh ast, as well as Farrokhzad’s proto-feminist afterword to <em>Asir</em> (1955). This edition includes a literary biography of Farrokhzad’s life and works as well an annotated critical study that traces the editorial development of Farrokhzad’s poetry collections until the time of her death.<br /><br /><strong>Domenico Ingenito</strong> is Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Persian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles</span></p><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3Da8bf71c18a%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw1bIAdxX73woPz_cOAzg_34" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=a8bf71c18a&e=5b9424d265" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts</span></a></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 18px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #a42131; border-radius: 11px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px;" valign="middle"><a class="m_2524391950363794106mcnButton" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3D70dc51bf4c%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw1sU2PTDgXLUNw23egbR2Db" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=70dc51bf4c&e=5b9424d265" style="color: white; display: block; line-height: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="RSVP to attend in person"><span style="font-family: Combo;">RSVP to attend in person</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>A History of Iranian Masculinities During the Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Period</strong></span><br /><strong>Sivan Balslev</strong><br />Thursday, February 29th, 6:30-8:00 PM PT | In Person</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftContentOuter" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 176px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnCaptionLeftTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 352px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The transition from Qajar rule in Iran to that of rule by the Pahlavi dynasty set in motion a number of shifts in the political, social, and cultural realms. Focusing on masculinity in Iran, Dr. Sivan Balslev's book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3D6bf401b367%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw2UyibjYIoYLCqskidPtm0g" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=6bf401b367&e=5b9424d265" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran</em></a> interweaves ideas and perceptions, laws, political movements, and men's practices to spotlight the role men as gendered subjects played in Iranian history. It shows how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from their late Qajar period counterparts. Furthermore, it highlights how the notion of being a "proper Iranian man" changed over these decades. Demonstrating how an emerging elite of western-educated men constructed and promoted a new model of masculinity as part of their struggle for political, social, and cultural hegemony, Dr. Balslev shows how this new model reflects wider developments in Iranian society at the time including the rise of Iranian nationalism and the country's modernisation process.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2524391950363794106mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Sivan Balslev</strong> is a historian of modern Iran, focusing on the cultural and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her fields of interest include gender, sexuality, childhood studies, and everyday life. Her current project, funded by the Israel Science Foundation, focuses on the history of children and childhood in Iran, circa 1870-1970. Since 2018, Dr. Balslev has been a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. <em>Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is her revised dissertation. The book offers the first study of the emergence of a new model of hegemonic masculinity in Iran. In addition to Iranian Masculinities, she published two translations to Hebrew from the work of Iranian poet <em>Forough Farrokhzad: Another Birth</em> and <em>Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season</em>.</span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 18px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #a42131; border-radius: 11px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px;" valign="middle"><a class="m_2524391950363794106mcnButton" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a%26id%3D8f40683937%26e%3D5b9424d265&source=gmail&ust=1708309773089000&usg=AOvVaw3h6AN9_VAUDc8nb4nl-_bK" href="https://stanford.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00994b1a991962f58f4061f8a&id=8f40683937&e=5b9424d265" style="color: white; 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I did </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/58hvh7hmk5vw5xf6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZnAuY29tL3AvZGFkcy1jYW50LWhhdmUtaXQtYWxsLWVpdGhlcg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw1oaJrxUHGCjg3IgPOzWgll" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/58hvh7hmk5vw5xf6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZnAuY29tL3AvZGFkcy1jYW50LWhhdmUtaXQtYWxsLWVpdGhlcg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>another piece</em></a><em> for them on parenting back in June, which you might also like!</em></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Before we get into the article, I want to share some very exciting news. I’m doing </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw1YfXqylwGd06iXm9TDdgJG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>two LIVE events in Australia</em></a><em> where you can see me discuss big ideas and answer your questions from the stage. We’re calling it </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw1YfXqylwGd06iXm9TDdgJG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Stoic Life</em></a><em>. Join me in Sydney on July 31st and Melbourne on August 1st. We’ll have a limited number of slots of a VIP meet-and-greet as well if you want to chat afterward. It’s going to be great. </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw1YfXqylwGd06iXm9TDdgJG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Learn more and purchase tickets here</em></a><em>.</em></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 755.984px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw1YfXqylwGd06iXm9TDdgJG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/qvh8h7hro87385cl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZlbnRicml0ZS5jb20vY2Mvcnlhbi1ob2xpZGF5LWxpdmUtaW4tYXVzdHJhbGlhLTI5MTI3Nzk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; display: block;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjgwqfMPt8SDGe17Trz7tlRkNUp2Slb8sCi7y0rRlw54FIn6S_B1xAHTdXE6OZV9vJ7jAvm1YsIWNbDo2aZQCU5q87p3ituJ3Vxlw5llRnzdJRzBEiAg8owVTwKyy7lDURhdN7WfKnv-FksWfUbrjnu07_h90NehkZebnikjlf3t6ImrQmu-pO2ZI4j4SkZEgjKng=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 800px;" width="800" /></a></figure></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">There in the hospital in 2016, when I held my first child for the first time, I had a feeling common among new parents. I was overwhelmed by the sense that I had been entrusted with something very special. Your kids are so vulnerable and defenseless, so innocent and new. You hold them for that first time and think, this is the most wonderful and special thing in the world. You think, this is my purpose now: to protect, to serve, to teach.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">What I was not thinking was: I bet this will get a lot of likes on Instagram.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">My wife felt the same as I did. So, there and then we made a decision: we would not post pictures of our children online—and if we did, we would obscure their faces. We would also ask that their grandparents and our friends respect that choice and avoid doing so, too.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">The reason I don’t post pictures of my sons, who are seven and four, on the internet is not because I am a private person. It’s not because, after writing a handful of bestselling books over the last decade, I have managed to achieve a fraction of the fame of the average beauty influencer and now worry about my family’s safety.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">I mean, I am private and I do worry.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">But we have kept them offline because it is the only way to stop social media’s skewed incentives from distorting our family life.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">I see what the social networks are getting out of it. But what’s in it for the kids? And what’s it doing to all of us?</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">In my line of work, we talk about “audience capture.” It means that performing for viewers who like and respond to what you post can change a person. Across my handful of social media accounts, including in my writing and thinking on parenting at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/48hvhehr605303ux/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseWRhZC5jb20v&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw3gMUZnnNS9sRw5xpzdNjgq" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/48hvhehr605303ux/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseWRhZC5jb20v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">DailyDad.com</a>, I have a few million followers and many hundreds of millions of views across them and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/8ghqhohlqg08l2bk/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vZGFpbHlzdG9pYw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw3LExDxxEHvL34qG3SzOnrk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/8ghqhohlqg08l2bk/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vZGFpbHlzdG9pYw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. You can feel the pressure to give the audience what they want, or to obsess over how your content will be received.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">That’s what algorithms do, they seduce and corrupt. Fame and the demands of an audience are wicked forces in the life of an artist or a political thinker—it’s not something you want acting on your personal life too.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">I know a couple, a man and a woman, who are both popular influencers. I watched with fascination and horror at how perfectly their expanding family fit into their social media lifestyle. The announcement. The baby bump. The gender reveal. The trip to the hospital. The public registry. The recommended products (complete with affiliate links). The sponsored content. It was almost as if, a cynical person might say, they had a kid for the content.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">And the content is big business. It’s algorithmic gold—especially for other parents, scrolling on their phones in the middle of the night while feeding their baby, or sitting in the sun during soccer practice. And it’s the social media companies making money off the clicks.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">On top of these distortive effects, there’s the hostility of social media. Trolls who tell you what you’re doing wrong. Haters who question your parenting decisions. Creeps who have opinions on what children wear and how they act. This is no place for babies! It’s no place for a parent either—not if one wants to cultivate the traits that parenting requires: Presence. Unconditional love. Patience. Respect. Humility.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">***</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Last Thanksgiving, as we took a family photo at the beach, my seven year old was acting crazy. He was running around in circles. He was making weird faces. His four-year-old brother was laughing while cowering, trying to avoid getting smashed into. Then they teamed up to lunge at the camera in an effort to knock it over, repeatedly, each time the timer was about to go off. I caught myself saying, “You’re ruining the picture!”</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">But they were not. The picture was not for anything. In fact, the phone was capturing an actual moment, and our actual family life—with its fair share of insanity and complete meltdowns never far away.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">This is not what you see on social media. No one posts about life’s mediocrity, or their own deficiencies as parents. They don’t share their mistakes, or their unflattering angles.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">“Family blogging is the grossest thing that has ever existed,” the filmmaker and vlogging pioneer Casey Neistat told me recently. “If you’re a parent, you know: it is hard to get your kid to behave, to do those performances and to act happy all the time. For every smiling kid, for every one of those videos, there’s six hours of the kid crying and screaming and the mother cutting all that footage out.”</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">The grossest example of the grossest thing ever? Four months ago <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/m2h7h5h8mogx87bm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL1Rpa1Rva0NyaW5nZS9jb21tZW50cy8xNmU2cjVkL21vbV9mb3JjZXNfaGVyX3Nvbl90b190YWtlX2FfdGh1bWJuYWlsX2Zvcl9oZXIv&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw2VdyLCERyOiHlwAdCRZW4k" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/m2h7h5h8mogx87bm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL1Rpa1Rva0NyaW5nZS9jb21tZW50cy8xNmU2cjVkL21vbV9mb3JjZXNfaGVyX3Nvbl90b190YWtlX2FfdGh1bWJuYWlsX2Zvcl9oZXIv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">this clip</a> of a mom appeared on Reddit, where she asks her devastated son to perform for a video she’s making about their dog dying.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">“Act like you’re crying,” she tells him brusquely.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">“I am crying!” he wails.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">And then he gets to watch his mom trying on a series of facial expressions to see which would pop out best as a thumbnail for her YouTube channel.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">That is the screwed up part not just of family vlogging but of all the ordinary exploitation of children via social media. I wouldn’t wish having a stage mother on any kid, but child actors are at least protected by some regulations. Income is put in trusts so greedy parents can’t steal it all.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">What happens to the ad revenue from the videos like the boy with the sick dog? Who protects kids from those kinds of parents? The answer, as a court just found in the child abuse case of popular mommy blogger Ruby Franke, is basically no one.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">But the impact of social media on families is usually more subtle than this. Last year, we were standing in line at Disneyland when we got talking to a large family behind us. The young children and the adults were wearing color coordinated outfits perfect for social media.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">What rides have you done so far, we asked.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">“Oh, none,” their eight-year-old daughter told us in frustration. “We’ve been posing for photos for our parents all morning.”</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Mom and Dad weren’t doing it for the money. Certainly the kids weren’t enjoying it. But personal boundaries and common sense were no match for the thrill of appearing to be the perfect family to friends, relatives and strangers on the internet.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">***</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">In the ’70s, long before social media, the novelist Joan Didion dressed her daughter in perfect outfits for photographs. They would take her out to be seen in restaurants, the perfect literary family. “Only later,” Joan Didion wrote of parenting her daughter long before social media, “did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.” Heartbroken and grieving over the loss of both her husband and only child when she wrote those words, Didion was almost certainly being too hard on herself. But she was right to recognize that our kids are not props. What right do we have to turn them into fodder for our feeds, whether we have a few dozen followers or many millions?</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Because we spend a lot of time together as a family and I show footage from my own life on social media, my kids do occasionally appear in the background of videos I’ve posted (if they turn toward the camera, we blur their faces). When I launched the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/7qh7h8how0keooiz/aHR0cDovL2RhaWx5ZGFkLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707460644787000&usg=AOvVaw0aK9LN9v4BgaQpJfWHMiW-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vuv77ow4za9hoek55xs0iwew8k55/7qh7h8how0keooiz/aHR0cDovL2RhaWx5ZGFkLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Daily Dad email</a> in 2018, it became inevitable that I would have to share at least some of my parenting experiences, whether in my own content or when asked about them in interviews, but still, I try to keep pretty clear boundaries between their lives and mine. I don’t want them to be dolls or props, unpaid accessories.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Yet even with the anonymizing we’ve done with our kids, I still felt strange including them without their consent, and so my wife and I set up retirement accounts for them that we deposit into each month as compensation for these background appearances. When they get older, they can decide whether they want to be included more or less in the work I do and they will at least have been compensated for their work as background actors when they were younger.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">One of my other rules is that I don’t post any of the content myself. It goes through a social media team, so I don’t have to be an editor of my own life. I don’t have any of the social media apps on my phone either—preferring not to get unsolicited feedback from strangers about whether I am interesting or not. Because if this data and its demands are acting on you, shaping what you post or how you experience moments in your life, it bears asking, do you have an audience or does the audience have you?</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">If you need more convincing, just look at what the social media titans are doing themselves. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and the owner of Instagram, who has made billions encouraging other people to live their lives out on his platforms, made a powerful admission on July 4 of this year. He posted a photo of his lovely family celebrating together . . . with the faces of his kids blurred out.</p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">The only way to win is not to play.</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-83592265235937580512024-02-10T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T00:00:00.348-08:00#OutsiderVibes (W-End Edition): Please Enjoy JAMAL JAMALOO - Elnaaz Norouzi, Deejay Al - New Song - Animal - Translat...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/-SHA2oTToGA?si=Oyuj2uGEKt7UiHMV" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-88297997403865898872024-02-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-08T00:00:00.338-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66 With #RandomThoughts For the Week <table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_3732244964152418476responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_3732244964152418476responsive-cell" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;" valign="top"><img class="m_3732244964152418476mobile-image-stretch-enabled CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhzyFuKJeomAAApp9Vq10viZEwKuR0BEWHwEF17oss9JJZqPXugONMF99uPFpk-ki-s2Ap0IVN3gBCr8KT94pumPk6D1-AQLgZ1_LRjU7TKWbfjaZydAtRrW9t1QAzVF2cvX1pdkoEudZzLnzslyUxDAs6XYNKSm6BXiOrVHrgoW9RLCQYW4uUbN4fDvrrINY32LxomfHmN7TtWhBmJc04TWDoxy5oAjg=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_3732244964152418476responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="m_3732244964152418476responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><br /><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.<br />- Aldous Huxley<br /><br />Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there,<br />but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.<br />You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it.<br />But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.<br />- Bernard M. Baruch<br /><br />We want the facts to fit the preconceptions.<br />When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts<br />than to change the preconceptions.<br />- Jessamyn West<br /><br />Get the facts first.<br />You can distort them later.<br />- Mark Twain</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 26px;"><div style="padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjNAReGYmpxNbGznbhw9Utrus8sSU6C6QeyS2KtrDSq9g9fizMlmKhX-JIdPdxwN-7nNK-1XFkZgK5lP22PEfJRYPfIDzsWvTCC_1B57LdHcMc0Mw4hwthFIb7N-RciRBn1pNWzEXsbDKSNseyTo70hWmAHuxCjczE0WMH65TsYtOYeAQTg-BwBdUoGgA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></span></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The fact of life is that we’re going to get tossed around by forces outside our control. Never forget fortunes’ habit of behaving exactly as she pleases, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/48hvhehr6zm3v2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcmVtZWRpdGF0aW8tbWFsb3J1bS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw3PJsBDQqY1VAtVzxFScrHq" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/48hvhehr6zm3v2hx/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcmVtZWRpdGF0aW8tbWFsb3J1bS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Seneca reminds us</a>, never forget that adversity is inevitability. There would be war, he said, and torture and shipwrecks and exile, along with a lot less dramatic stuff: traffic jams, divorces, food poisoning, annoying neighbors, bad weather, pets that run away.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The only option according to the Stoics was to submit. No amount of wishing otherwise, no amount of anxiety, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/wnh2hghwx9qdnrs7/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LWRvZXMtaXQtbWVhbi10by1iZS13ZWFsdGh5Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw0sQTBVKSpTeAZCvDLXuGNt" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/wnh2hghwx9qdnrs7/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LWRvZXMtaXQtbWVhbi10by1iZS13ZWFsdGh5Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">no amount of power or wealth</a> would fully protect us from this. We had to surrender to the fates, let them guide us. But perhaps we could add to this idea a little corollary from Cheap Trick—<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/reh8hoh0w9mp40c2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1UX0ttMTFITnpVWQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw37strTnGqjDTkxPtBqOAYi" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/reh8hoh0w9mp40c2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1UX0ttMTFITnpVWQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">surrender, <em>but don’t give yourself away.</em></a></span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Stockdale obviously had to surrender as a POW (his book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/08hwh9hdg024v2ul/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93YXIxMD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD0wNGZlZjc4NGQmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw2WrjvQvSOkNq9kqzgOLkqj" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/08hwh9hdg024v2ul/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93YXIxMD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD0wNGZlZjc4NGQmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Courage Under Fire</em></a> is a must read for Stoics). He had to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/8ghqhohlqeo8zqtk/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtanVzdC1oYXZlLXRvLWFjY2VwdC1pdC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw17CnZq6GcSjYDAmGmfhILe" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/8ghqhohlqeo8zqtk/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtanVzdC1oYXZlLXRvLWFjY2VwdC1pdC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">accept his powerlessness</a>, the objective reality of his fate and captivity. Yet he kept the most important part of himself to himself, within himself. Marcus Aurelius accepted the job of emperor—which he did not seek out—but there was a part of himself, the part we read in the pages of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/vqh3hrhpe2o6lgug/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw1fy4kVkj4JasOm6w9CtJ5h" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/vqh3hrhpe2o6lgug/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>, that he did not allow his professional identity to consume.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We all have to surrender and accept and accede to the events that life throws at us. There will be moments when we have to give up, when we have to admit defeat. But like Stockdale, like Marcus, like a Stoic, we don’t have to give ourselves away in the process. Nothing can make us <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/l2hehmh365lpews6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ub3RoaW5nLWlzLXBvc3NpYmxlLXdpdGhvdXQtdGhpcy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103580196000&usg=AOvVaw3tbZESjCUClshSP7rDRr_y" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/gkuove2mvxa5hd97x9nf8i5x9dv99/l2hehmh365lpews6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ub3RoaW5nLWlzLXBvc3NpYmxlLXdpdGhvdXQtdGhpcy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">depart from our virtues</a> and values but ourselves. No one and nothing has any say over our character.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s always ours…unless we surrender it.</span></p><div style="padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjNAReGYmpxNbGznbhw9Utrus8sSU6C6QeyS2KtrDSq9g9fizMlmKhX-JIdPdxwN-7nNK-1XFkZgK5lP22PEfJRYPfIDzsWvTCC_1B57LdHcMc0Mw4hwthFIb7N-RciRBn1pNWzEXsbDKSNseyTo70hWmAHuxCjczE0WMH65TsYtOYeAQTg-BwBdUoGgA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></span></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">He was seriously ill, plagued by a chronic stomach condition painful enough to require occasional doses of opium. Then you know, he lived through an actual plague that lasted for more than a decade. He buried children. He worked in the snake pit that was Rome’s court. He saw war and decay and corruption.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">What did he cling to? In sickness and in health, prosperity and problems? Marcus Aurelius relied on philosophy, on Stoicism, which he had been introduced to as a young man. All his life he felt a debt of gratitude to his teacher, Rusticus, who loaned him his personal copy of Epictetus.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp6z4pdimi7326w22/25h2hoh23qw408b3/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1707103836216000&usg=AOvVaw03ABFys9sVrHjPhs43UKZd" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp6z4pdimi7326w22/25h2hoh23qw408b3/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>, Marcus Aurelius writes that a person should “never let go of philosophy, no matter what happens.” Elsewhere, he refers to it as a soothing ointment, akin to the medical treatments he received, something that relieved pain and healed wounds. That’s what philosophy was in the ancient world—not some academic exercise, not “bandy[ing] words with crackpots and philistines,” as Marcus himself put it in that same passage.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">None of us know what the future holds. None of us know what adversity and difficulty tomorrow, let alone the next 10 years, might bring. What we do know, what we can be sure of, is that philosophy can guide us through it. Stoicism can help us, support us, offer counsel, advice, strength, clarity and purpose.</span></p><p style="color: black; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We should not only not let it go, we should dive deep into it.</span></p></div></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="height: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9d9740e4-95f3-49e0-9a5f-47c535d612b8?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707103833336000&usg=AOvVaw3sRts7e51pihYUv-DfaYsL" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9d9740e4-95f3-49e0-9a5f-47c535d612b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" style="color: #404040; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">ADMIRED LEADERSHIP</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: grey; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><time datetime="2024-02-03T12:01:57.996Z"><span style="font-family: Combo;">FEB 3</span></time></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/9d9740e4-95f3-49e0-9a5f-47c535d612b8?j%3DeyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA&source=gmail&ust=1707103833336000&usg=AOvVaw3sRts7e51pihYUv-DfaYsL" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9d9740e4-95f3-49e0-9a5f-47c535d612b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMXkzZncifQ.TMrCXeW3nlYirGZ7si8wtFDIVYTk6xDjO0koxS66yCA" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj5Wt9wDPuzbSlKus43mUscrUQEmx2lU7yyg7EBhme5c6rioCMYAiiGnF8TkrNPkoSxP76UyEp6rqbZ8DHQqZcCuzvWLY0RbOGMxzJ6jwdDGnpLe-u5L8F92jiZE0b8CAaFD8jXPVawtYYAQdagcrXX9a_C2bfdrXZulf2CZwJ45KbMNpBke3X2as-vS4clgwx4n-RJVyfXDVRNaZQLUG2n3oFfmzLNEaCYzQ4tlrygV5U4BBCSqXhxWvFy90dUYebsG1gndma6fD9FeSADPeaMF7MSYLBB-w0MrcpQCYcMFDhjOVhtZLki1OEtaq5cZUUf2_ABeH7rvHX5nSRqp80MGg_Ya7_8EE3p1AutJUj9XIT-ukCKnjNtCNmLhMDzD00=s0-d-e1-ft,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e65ea8-0e10-41db-86fc-67ace620b94a_356x356.png" style="border-radius: 500000px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; height: 40px; margin: 0px; max-width: 550px; min-height: 40px; min-width: 40px; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;" width="40" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.13); min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></td></tr><tr height="16"><td height="16" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We know all about the fear of failure. On any stage and in any performance, no one wants to make a mistake, stumble, or perform poorly. The embarrassment and ridicule we feel when others judge us harshly for our missteps feeds our fear of failure. We will do almost anything to avoid it. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Ironically, most performers owe their personal growth and success to a modest fear of failure. When not taken to an extreme, the fear of failure drives leaders and performers to prepare, practice, and rehearse so they might reduce the odds of a blunder or meltdown. They develop strong skills in the process. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Once a leader or performer has learned to tame the fear of failure, using it as a motivating force instead of as a performance inhibitor, they often face a newfound fear — <em>The Fear of Success. </em>Mostly unconscious or denied, the fear of success is very real and must be overcome for performers to reach their highest potential. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The fear of success arises most often when leaders and performers have achieved moderate mastery and are on the cusp of attaining the highest level of accomplishment or victory. At that point in their development, they begin to sense that reaching the pinnacle of achievement, such as a promotion, a competitive victory, or the spotlight, will change what is expected of them and how they are viewed by others. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When the fear of success takes hold, the leader or performer begins to feel an unusual internal pressure. They start to believe that if they continue to succeed, they will be incapable of sustaining that success. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">They astutely recognize that continued success will increase the responsibility and work required to live up to the new bar set by high achievement. They worry that others will expect great things from them and increase their scrutiny and judgment of how they perform. They panic at the thought that others will learn their true limits. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">They falsely believe they are somehow unworthy or undeserving of more success. They even have a concern that continued success will create peer jealousy and weaken their connection to friends and peers who lack the talent or opportunity to reach the same heights. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In other words, they develop a deep and abiding fear that more success is not something they can handle. If they don’t confront these perceptions and fears and overcome them, the anxiety over succeeding continues to build inside. To release this pressure, they sabotage themselves, making higher success an unlikely outcome. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When succumbing to the fear of success, self-sabotage comes in many forms: Leaders and performers may procrastinate and fail to complete assignments, find excuses not to practice or rehearse, turn down important opportunities, or avoid competing or playing with others who are better than they are. They undermine themselves to prove why more success is just out of their reach. </span></p><p style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The fear of failure is nowhere near as destructive as the fear of success. For highly skilled performers, the deepest fear is usually not about stumbling. 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For each of us, there will come a day in which someone else sits in our chair. It may be many years down the road, but one day you will be the former leader.</p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">To say we are currently being reminded of this reality is an understatement. In the past couple of weeks, legendary Super Bowl winning head coaches <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D41cd65998b%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw0_q03mCcmQYyESLY5xeVNm" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=41cd65998b&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Bill Belichick</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Da577419b38%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw2ANnIXpibRJI1qI8zNJWqz" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=a577419b38&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Pete Carroll</a> were respectfully relieved of their duties. In addition, Alabama Crimson Tide head coach <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D11f1d8c26a%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw1iTZGYSDzMIV0NB415-1xS" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=11f1d8c26a&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Nick Saban</a> suddenly retired.<br /><br />On Friday, the trend continued as we learned Liverpool manager <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Dd241d99729%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw1WEQuC8hkq-3boVMy_OSHw" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=d241d99729&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Jurgen Klopp</a> would be resigning at the end of this Premier League season. <br /><br />Why he resigned is of utmost importance to leaders. The same thing which he is struggling with affects us all... but it doesn't have to. Click <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D8c4895a3e5%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw3VbUNpyTkH9BgJGIOnZXmy" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=8c4895a3e5&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">HERE</a> to learn <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Dfdfa306ae7%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1706587539686000&usg=AOvVaw1m-WE-U1mcn__K3zGE1Rxa" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=fdfa306ae7&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">the most important thing a leader brings to an organization</a>.<br /><br /><br /> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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The impact of state participation on an economy’s growth depends on the type of public-private ownership, the types of markets, and the importance of those markets in the economy. The impact also depends on how policies and institutions regulate both the businesses with state ownership and the markets in which they are active.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Business of the State</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> uses new evidence covering 91 countries from the World Bank’s Global Businesses of the State database to highlight the distinction between businesses of the state and traditionally understood state-owned enterprises. 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width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2860097613009884571row-content m_2860097613009884571stack" role="presentation" style="color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 500px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="m_2860097613009884571column" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; vertical-align: top;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 16px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It’s become a commonplace in business to say the pace of change is faster than ever. But what does that mean? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For the last five years, the data crunchers at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460%26_e%3DLPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-bM_Q_deLlzSN2ddrcH13FryPCv1P92e1UqK79ir7Bk9x6ueXifhYQMPwqIutp6Y5lTLqmrb-WMOyiETJJjj1B8SZDm3tInRVC9qSrjHYyRa2OBJw-EfZ9ONk-jya8xKVd-X5sUg8oVr9PQiGzyjwAxhEQ1Xw1mfg-Z-gFpGdrmZpNyn7laxrUBnznVdjwCQSKeWOrVZItRpBD439W4ZdqZPURGnYipJE9rM33fc0GCA_XODXmVvU7krQNBLXY79F7loHVFY6oQxlRNovwi8HYa-JZZ6XkDsq6uZCRt8WbNFbWHrF0WtwUXCzhcxi01TP-9079zdpP1oy10wG1UAADY%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377089452000&usg=AOvVaw1eFxkSvCAKJipn2PCAlS4Z" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460&_e=LPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-bM_Q_deLlzSN2ddrcH13FryPCv1P92e1UqK79ir7Bk9x6ueXifhYQMPwqIutp6Y5lTLqmrb-WMOyiETJJjj1B8SZDm3tInRVC9qSrjHYyRa2OBJw-EfZ9ONk-jya8xKVd-X5sUg8oVr9PQiGzyjwAxhEQ1Xw1mfg-Z-gFpGdrmZpNyn7laxrUBnznVdjwCQSKeWOrVZItRpBD439W4ZdqZPURGnYipJE9rM33fc0GCA_XODXmVvU7krQNBLXY79F7loHVFY6oQxlRNovwi8HYa-JZZ6XkDsq6uZCRt8WbNFbWHrF0WtwUXCzhcxi01TP-9079zdpP1oy10wG1UAADY%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Accenture</a> have attempted to put some meat on those bones, with their latest effort <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460%26_e%3DLPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-cuJQv_0Ogp7yOkHHInwz1KDhoUQq0iIodrsB46PtXGzjcOodkKDoCV4Ces3mScGRpu6AmcSAD0lhOl07wfLro8YrSN07uak1nZXToF3_a_Ksx4zUJeBzWimDxR76l8wkULBg9p709iQnI6wrAnoQ5AY0uQdwK19dxH0UmQw13aKdn6-0kTaRO8MJkyWWzPvAvriR-CPRknDfjrMD5LkW041B4GUVUrc70JFXJ8TYY_LVL7cWpWIKnzqVUk69wt4Kg%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377089452000&usg=AOvVaw3pm16RvxCOcVr6klSyk-Wr" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460&_e=LPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-cuJQv_0Ogp7yOkHHInwz1KDhoUQq0iIodrsB46PtXGzjcOodkKDoCV4Ces3mScGRpu6AmcSAD0lhOl07wfLro8YrSN07uak1nZXToF3_a_Ksx4zUJeBzWimDxR76l8wkULBg9p709iQnI6wrAnoQ5AY0uQdwK19dxH0UmQw13aKdn6-0kTaRO8MJkyWWzPvAvriR-CPRknDfjrMD5LkW041B4GUVUrc70JFXJ8TYY_LVL7cWpWIKnzqVUk69wt4Kg%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">out this morning</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They ingest more than 40 data series in order to measure change in six areas—technology, economics, talent, geopolitics, climate, and consumer & social. Their conclusion: the pace of change is indeed accelerating.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It has risen steadily since 2019, soaring 183% in the last four years, and 33% in the last year alone. Most of the 3,400 C-suite executives surveyed by the firm (88%) expect change to continue to accelerate in 2024.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What’s driving the change? Technology was the top driver of the six in 2023, after being in last place in 2022. You can credit that to the release of ChatGPT. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Talent fell from the top spot in 2022 to the number two spot in 2023. And geopolitics went from number two in 2022 to number five in 2023.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The report also confirms a point I made <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460%26_e%3DLPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-e_dUF1bk7z16elcPP07JRo8hZkFBgdVTEueRt-FqtMyB3EavwF5fgJwbzbhfitTvBdDX_KtxXC5xSJ81QoPt_DyeMOo1UH609etEL8OOwFj8Kc6kcfATT7IusI1xw3TNQ7-9NcAAHh4gpJaXqEc2tzCPWrKKPvZmdXcgEj50oaFV3j1VANI5WW2vIxCi60K7eI93TtrkP6VFkpKNXlYKWisB4YPUxlXIxpLARttYgp7o3FtHZ8rlc0pp8xEW-sFFZP7LvcjaS2IndzBJS8bQmwsWPQ-tN5CtAjKjmxweM11DNk6JHl8tzKRCOCxsPMus7-9QCO3mxp-oT2Eux4fnRwEEUxxEHU5VwGQpvLmIC9WOzNQPXdDgsLbIzzBKyWeClUG2o9mdX8I8H-e1obdRc4%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377089452000&usg=AOvVaw1r6JAmvTQE7kqQJcL0aGqB" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460&_e=LPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-e_dUF1bk7z16elcPP07JRo8hZkFBgdVTEueRt-FqtMyB3EavwF5fgJwbzbhfitTvBdDX_KtxXC5xSJ81QoPt_DyeMOo1UH609etEL8OOwFj8Kc6kcfATT7IusI1xw3TNQ7-9NcAAHh4gpJaXqEc2tzCPWrKKPvZmdXcgEj50oaFV3j1VANI5WW2vIxCi60K7eI93TtrkP6VFkpKNXlYKWisB4YPUxlXIxpLARttYgp7o3FtHZ8rlc0pp8xEW-sFFZP7LvcjaS2IndzBJS8bQmwsWPQ-tN5CtAjKjmxweM11DNk6JHl8tzKRCOCxsPMus7-9QCO3mxp-oT2Eux4fnRwEEUxxEHU5VwGQpvLmIC9WOzNQPXdDgsLbIzzBKyWeClUG2o9mdX8I8H-e1obdRc4%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">last week</a>, that most companies are taking a cautious approach to generative AI. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Only 27% of C-suite executives said their organizations are ready to scale-up generative AI solutions, while 72% agreed with the statement: “The recent backlash on generative AI (e.g., policy issues, lack of accuracy, low initial ROI) will cause our organization to slow down planned investment in GenAI in 2024.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You can read the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460%26_e%3DLPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-cuJQv_0Ogp7yOkHHInwz1KDhoUQq0iIodrsB46PtXGzjcOodkKDoCV4Ces3mScGRpu6AmcSAD0lhOl07wfLro8YrSN07uak1nZXToF3_a_KirwE5AlTgeClEQDNMYrF6EYIoc_l5AdVdGKfp9DYtG5Fao-akXfWA6b4-Xo7CEQClnoRbEborupnE_kDLO4ghKaYmHfUYxgxOESR1pTLuhUuS__lPhAgHRFr-3cgikkuMFz5FnLQDUgl5SWUg81eWQ%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377089452000&usg=AOvVaw3LziJgJ2zL1In82H4LPFOA" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=6a622a0a3519457897db431e2e8cb460&_e=LPAJ0yWQYLOz_uiArdv8-cuJQv_0Ogp7yOkHHInwz1KDhoUQq0iIodrsB46PtXGzjcOodkKDoCV4Ces3mScGRpu6AmcSAD0lhOl07wfLro8YrSN07uak1nZXToF3_a_KirwE5AlTgeClEQDNMYrF6EYIoc_l5AdVdGKfp9DYtG5Fao-akXfWA6b4-Xo7CEQClnoRbEborupnE_kDLO4ghKaYmHfUYxgxOESR1pTLuhUuS__lPhAgHRFr-3cgikkuMFz5FnLQDUgl5SWUg81eWQ%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">full Accenture report here</a>. And if you are wondering why CEO Daily seems so research-heavy this week, it’s because many companies are rushing out research in advance of next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Peter and I will both be there, and reporting back here. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 16px;">The chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has a message for business leaders in the U.S. and Europe with protectionist measures and industrial policies on the rise: Be careful what you wish for.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beata Javorcik doesn’t like restrictions to trade. The Yale-trained former World Bank economist is a rather conventional trade economist in that sense. So is her organization, the EBRD. But her observations are astute in this era of global AI and green tech competition. She reminded me this week that when the U.S. banned the export of advanced AI chips to China this fall, China responded in kind. It <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5%26_e%3D3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl0oarMec1fAJomHIzk4-P2JIqFyIVPwY_UCiOpCaVo0eDxzkdG5LBumOrChL8UyX1XNlmsQV5cBnuDIyPrTK7IRa6q1dfcqieHSpFiErkHD6v5Y1qpvL1BoxRZcgaMy9B96MaYUgGJLKxDixKPX6cGSknMJAF_I_un-Cq4MmNZd21P4mnqTcahlCGRiBzKJuovpkX9tZ0LJBJtf9u7poI8e0pwtHDV8PgTo_PuLt0Ae4ANNv85SfLo__5ckLIZy_a5VX3WHC_M7VnNIxYqCK8vySrqOAODlOtmEXRcJ86hXUoNvE4Dts0b3FIjcjVPLJvZDJENw62uehlQ0Kl3dRBEOw1YNVw4ApTidzqKIeAcSkH7q3mwhcDeQDD3jvAcsoP5n-Foh8Irn1gY5xw20QYw9Wa8TqWlKimllda2zg1vNihBzyPgC1gClx1wHhsSax-UE4mmUZd7C2ygqTrZl7dRY%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377093127000&usg=AOvVaw3xx1pCifpk5isuSWimdAE_" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5&_e=3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl0oarMec1fAJomHIzk4-P2JIqFyIVPwY_UCiOpCaVo0eDxzkdG5LBumOrChL8UyX1XNlmsQV5cBnuDIyPrTK7IRa6q1dfcqieHSpFiErkHD6v5Y1qpvL1BoxRZcgaMy9B96MaYUgGJLKxDixKPX6cGSknMJAF_I_un-Cq4MmNZd21P4mnqTcahlCGRiBzKJuovpkX9tZ0LJBJtf9u7poI8e0pwtHDV8PgTo_PuLt0Ae4ANNv85SfLo__5ckLIZy_a5VX3WHC_M7VnNIxYqCK8vySrqOAODlOtmEXRcJ86hXUoNvE4Dts0b3FIjcjVPLJvZDJENw62uehlQ0Kl3dRBEOw1YNVw4ApTidzqKIeAcSkH7q3mwhcDeQDD3jvAcsoP5n-Foh8Irn1gY5xw20QYw9Wa8TqWlKimllda2zg1vNihBzyPgC1gClx1wHhsSax-UE4mmUZd7C2ygqTrZl7dRY%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">restricted Chinese exports of graphite</a> to the U.S., adding to the bans of gallium and germanium exports Beijing had enacted in the summer. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />China dominates the global production of all three elements, which are critical for the production of electric vehicles. Hence Javorcik’s warning. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“We looked at these critical raw materials, and the Western block controls relatively little of them,” Javorcik told me, recounting the findings of a recent <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5%26_e%3D3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl4rrLIvo-qTQBoYMGEuYDvwgADWc-rQE6i9_sljGC0kUu4RlrDDJtXxcvLHvLHU9vry5yipDMSMjUJTjWysmxNKfZ7OG24eH247CIQDGUr2h83yy-sEz3y8kAuQITMKC9l5efSzKa3k2y_pnA_rA1wCGiaqhVORKBYIPSw9kbfbKCQFy_zotioPg3WX6wWymQQSUYDb_rxjc926hOYCNq6I%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377093127000&usg=AOvVaw2DKAX7XBgQ0XLZkg_bke8t" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5&_e=3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl4rrLIvo-qTQBoYMGEuYDvwgADWc-rQE6i9_sljGC0kUu4RlrDDJtXxcvLHvLHU9vry5yipDMSMjUJTjWysmxNKfZ7OG24eH247CIQDGUr2h83yy-sEz3y8kAuQITMKC9l5efSzKa3k2y_pnA_rA1wCGiaqhVORKBYIPSw9kbfbKCQFy_zotioPg3WX6wWymQQSUYDb_rxjc926hOYCNq6I%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">EBRD study</a>. “So geopolitical tensions and the threat of fragmentation of the global economy are not only costly and risky when it comes to economic growth, they also risk the success of the green transition.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“If you look at all critical products, 30% are now under some sort of [trade] restriction. In 2015, it was 5%,” she said. It’s difficult to identify new suppliers on short notice. Developing new mines and refining capacity takes time, she noted, while export restrictions can have immediate effect. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The take-away for executives, she told me, is that “you need to talk about the dangers of economic fragmentation,” as their threat is real and bound to lead to further trade restrictions. In such an extended deglobalization scenario, she warned, no one is set to win.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Separately, the World Economic Forum kicks off next week in Davos, Switzerland. In WEF’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5%26_e%3D3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl83wUhBaL6T3b32rKp9G-kHASSWcbtuzgxVfYkMnZ1ZlueqXjp0KTzwFO3cYoBtD8GxtBwo1VX5sBp7c-Tn0984r9PPtf3Latb2AoFfGDRB-QKbp_vMxJYl6s1yo0ym-wm0YiuD3ekSaC3TMZQc4hi7Iv03qZcw3PY4FY3nAUmRcbQNx1PPhDi32Q4Sukpce2bKM-Uz_MAYWedQSa5NwibTkgzBD3c4aZ5BIDNkz4EqxyrbvZCeG6HMVO4C4R1xMbg%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377093127000&usg=AOvVaw1R8NSDEAOmPOiQj3Wq2_9r" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5&_e=3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl83wUhBaL6T3b32rKp9G-kHASSWcbtuzgxVfYkMnZ1ZlueqXjp0KTzwFO3cYoBtD8GxtBwo1VX5sBp7c-Tn0984r9PPtf3Latb2AoFfGDRB-QKbp_vMxJYl6s1yo0ym-wm0YiuD3ekSaC3TMZQc4hi7Iv03qZcw3PY4FY3nAUmRcbQNx1PPhDi32Q4Sukpce2bKM-Uz_MAYWedQSa5NwibTkgzBD3c4aZ5BIDNkz4EqxyrbvZCeG6HMVO4C4R1xMbg%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">annual risk</a> survey, out this morning, global executives highlighted “increased interstate conflict” among their top five short-term risks for 2024. In the critical election year 2024, “misinformation and disinformation,” and “societal polarization” also made the cut.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Climate-related risks, by contrast, have all but disappeared from the short-term outlook, although they still dominate the list of long-term risks. And also missing at Davos this year are DEI and ESG. Not a single session mentions either acronym, which confirms our—and the WSJ’s—analysis that the latter, at least, has become a “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t%3D5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73%26_m%3D198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5%26_e%3D3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl-dsKGeEo6d_5KRH2p1eOA9rzLj_fitAl9Nz4M9ljqaHNtCRIh4utX5rS5ZiU3TMzPyb-CfxjJZ2OcvyMKEWX818e1DxNsRCSa3l2nhqAq-N_x2_evYtpm1SQSSXuKOMTzSXLi7ZgKrxdWjZsNHcaUDTXFhYrq73c7lRrTm87hXdBp59ovCHHtRYe2BDMn2rPxvbezLyvUH-52-sSTFV__ace6VWs22X-YV87jIdSh8-U9cBeyBDeLG_unggTGzvHc5ubQs5uFZVa8s294v47vskTRUFtta7ol3sd7CjuaWKi3JQ_kwG2fEHCCVhH2FcBA%253D%253D&source=gmail&ust=1705377093127000&usg=AOvVaw3KvoNs7KYqyFqKq1r4SSBe" href="https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/u/click?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=198faa6408ba4a2cb0bff7e31a6c31e5&_e=3HtAMCMoOc9e6BcOqGivl-dsKGeEo6d_5KRH2p1eOA9rzLj_fitAl9Nz4M9ljqaHNtCRIh4utX5rS5ZiU3TMzPyb-CfxjJZ2OcvyMKEWX818e1DxNsRCSa3l2nhqAq-N_x2_evYtpm1SQSSXuKOMTzSXLi7ZgKrxdWjZsNHcaUDTXFhYrq73c7lRrTm87hXdBp59ovCHHtRYe2BDMn2rPxvbezLyvUH-52-sSTFV__ace6VWs22X-YV87jIdSh8-U9cBeyBDeLG_unggTGzvHc5ubQs5uFZVa8s294v47vskTRUFtta7ol3sd7CjuaWKi3JQ_kwG2fEHCCVhH2FcBA%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">dirty word</a>.” </span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-47481692335735344502024-01-09T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-09T00:00:00.181-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" As 2024 Begins <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"> Welcome to 2024 here at the Daily Outsider.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We hereby present a snapshot of our home state of California courtesy of the team at the New York Times as we look forward to the privilege to serve:</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A road cutting through rolling hills covered in trees. A low fog hovers in the distance." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-pin-me-only="true" height="571" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhpon1f65ca4fWpR23kdxR2L5c4uKMu3uHgjSAbrS3eLXdyHvC86dis6FfmmF783Bcu8STmEUjEqpNgFIPaM9clEtDF24wBxXItSrSx_URPYi5iwqc5qk1XbBvT2JkuQuuCSxoHldViuJJL2RIi_ShSgjNDBYW5ltZPmjXyPODI4ek_bXqdwnMZfNz7I6nt7vpMY-CnbWUbv8Z3LsvrOumthxUjuRKcuxdFXhbwGaa3RKM455Ta=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Fog in the Angeles National Forest near Pasadena in December. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Tanveer Badal for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">This has been an especially busy year for news in California. As we approach the end of 2023, we’re presenting the Golden State’s year visually, through photographs. There were moments of heartbreak, transformation and wonder, many of which will resonate through the state for years to come.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A road covered with unplowed snow, surrounded by pine trees also covered with snow. " class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjNmyC5uxTn0QIiLfCRfmgWe2RO5gRSDce442XABeObG5A6yvmdDTiYPJmuJ2BAoF39rtChGLQm6lP58FTzElgbcsFRdE3IBXM3j1fp9gK-xPDNJ15NaZnyFiCVWuRhTUVuYWq-UT9u6uvY6FbrfVPM0xLO9LHc7V-oNnZJ6nMHetOkZy_tFZrbztEQfhdpE7VHVSeHnq2_TE7S_Bq7lI-lXf4YzlSoe9qJGeZ4rA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Heavy snow near Pine Mountain Club in February. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">The year began with a series of atmospheric-river storms that dropped tremendous amounts of precipitation on California. The record-breaking storms caused terrible flooding, <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/Eh7Qwv6xo3RY_-t03xW2hw~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS8wNi91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXN0b3Jtcy10cmVlcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242110000&usg=AOvVaw1_V2pAZJXFLglKWOtNCFF6" 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Two people in the back are embracing each other." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiI6CZfXspo6llsqzGEh26Fz2ePF62p2Cnj0iBnm4q9Ubs4QZDojGa4Ny1FR_Qn6lPhs4jeqzimUDIlPvsXSptJBG_D2YGPEbIG52p0liBidw7hASlZJaggMsFOlmR0UZ5J7BZZl-OAlgsKZJz5mKVGxv4zhoscwYS6vtVAbbLJTeo_AypCshUjkXdIUoE-0dG8yxZgS9H7CyA5Er4rlu9VzMsX_sRwEtHFprjZ1MwAA5C7ZGSlyexS72MfjlLZuNc=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">People prayed during a memorial service in January for the victims of the mass shooting in Monterey Park. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Mark Abramson for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">Eleven people were killed and nine more were injured when a gunman opened fire at a dance studio in Monterey Park in January, one of America’s deadliest mass shootings of 2023. My colleague Corina Knoll <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/5GEz0weSzsq5I-OljtIUlA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0T4aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMi8xNS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLW1vbnRlcmV5LXBhcmstc2hvb3RpbmctZGFuY2UtY29tbXVuaXR5Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242110000&usg=AOvVaw3KD9Qm1_pFe2Q7QsPvTfDA" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/5GEz0weSzsq5I-OljtIUlA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0T4aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMi8xNS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLW1vbnRlcmV5LXBhcmstc2hvb3RpbmctZGFuY2UtY29tbXVuaXR5Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">wrote a beautiful article</a> about the community of older Asian dancers who were devastated by the tragedy and sought a way to carry on.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A woman pressing a hand against her face sitting on a ledge next to several bouquets of flowers." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhu2-bIqGnkks5cr6I8hkoj83lnHDKm35I1lZB3hCoigPR_BX882QPV7Pur1yxtE3aFnIMcnGAP3bWmz1tfzY-WZRH601lNYrTfCsfaxbwa7bxF9cj2Lq0IxoGlsLlq8RvVtZZKD_ruNneiDRiHaBehgucYAt8AlzRNAkMX7QqCaH8bxXIUXBh0xFoNsIDP21M8LAKvgtJrtkegwFXHUJ3Oqz8KbOpKDqEog0CoFiB297LWqdI1CgD4hgnKj6LNi1Y=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Flowers at an impromptu memorial in Half Moon Bay in January. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Jim Wilson/The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">Less than 48 hours later, <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/lehSIzp1xWEN-vf9srw-mA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS8yNS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXNob290aW5nLWhhbGYtbW9vbi1iYXkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242110000&usg=AOvVaw0ViGDuWWR-0pt04qoI8OEX" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/lehSIzp1xWEN-vf9srw-mA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS8yNS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXNob290aW5nLWhhbGYtbW9vbi1iYXkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">seven people were shot to death</a> at two sites in Half Moon Bay, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. The back-to-back massacres were an upsetting illustration of what to many people feels like a near-constant drumbeat of mass shootings in America.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Flowers with light red hues are in the foreground, surrounded by green plants. In the background are brown hillsides." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhNJCw02R6-576EQ3YohnW8epXLP_wImASVDafXGnjzgXH6AJlh7T56ERU2S8XMV9OuUqQ1Upeq7iegYmuw80muzyTuErAjrzpyLWja6cAakWDWi8VkX3ZdDBkILxIbPiNjOntQtRmffGDK0bF-boI8C2VONab_oXyHZWrTlH24P_Ad2rzZPg6q6XAgyisgfwUG0FPjaVU_R9zbFHddEKBh80sz1m0wnzFa0ZGQcQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Purple owl’s clover on open land in Kern County in April. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">All that winter rain made for “as close to a miracle year as you can get,” replenishing reservoirs and easing drought conditions, a California state water official said. California’s snowpack built up to the greatest depth recorded in at least 40 years, a <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/hpkJV9oOMUpzxulJARRKMQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNC8wMi91cy90dWxhcmUtbGFrZS1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXN0b3Jtcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242110000&usg=AOvVaw08rnETa0v7odjb-0XURfxx" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/hpkJV9oOMUpzxulJARRKMQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNC8wMi91cy90dWxhcmUtbGFrZS1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXN0b3Jtcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">huge lake of runoff</a> spread over farmland in the Central Valley, and a <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/Za_LbYGKfpN4i18v82zZww~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNS8yMi91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXdpbGRmbG93ZXItaHVudC5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw1MbsR1vo0s9ZR2vtV9Lovt" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/Za_LbYGKfpN4i18v82zZww~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNS8yMi91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXdpbGRmbG93ZXItaHVudC5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">rainbow of wildflowers emerged across the state</a> in the spring.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A group of people holding signs, some saying “SAG-AFTRA supports WGA.” One person is wearing a light blue mask of a creature’s face." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhAgXMGjChZRZt0EbMxylEoppUQS98aDvbjWUNs-j9AstT8O1C8d2b8qlDfxL129jz62WrDTlmzrXO5n82WyEOrHTUGg9gi7Pwl2SIziIZio3s3T3RaddhJUUJNzW27IPtEIcNBlzwhi6SYr2LJTyCPXP_ByCB36aLezJ0IJNDbo0o6wPEjh5PJUXbePqUFC-qq3_xe0UgUO-r1t5S4LOi8ty8wXq7-Sv3az9QLz0DrL-timLEUE4jmRymK=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Striking actors and writers picketed in September outside Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Mark Abramson for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">Some people called it the <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/dxhuKI3kKAu4Iat3pPlUpQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8wMS91cy93b3JrZXJzLWxhYm9yLXVuaW9ucy1sb3MtYW5nZWxlcy1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw2mAGl5zRRDrj3VTRwGlPM3" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/dxhuKI3kKAu4Iat3pPlUpQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8wMS91cy93b3JrZXJzLWxhYm9yLXVuaW9ucy1sb3MtYW5nZWxlcy1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">“hot labor summer”</a>: A season of strikes began when Los Angeles school support staff members <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/UCzqRaNAfi4Uzgrb85ZSJw~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TYaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yMi91cy9sYS1zY2hvb2xzLXN0cmlrZS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw2lfBCIktosZvqYvuOe4_eB" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/UCzqRaNAfi4Uzgrb85ZSJw~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TYaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yMi91cy9sYS1zY2hvb2xzLXN0cmlrZS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">staged a three-day walkout</a> in March. Then Hollywood writers and actors went on strike, as did dockworkers, hotel workers, Amazon drivers and more.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhUzRC9w9V7dnBlx4dZInc2e1_wPcpMHavTG56vgXvW-CmUeN_X__5HdCpoUL_5jAmYSY_q5HhHYSSiVyTM0bRPhCvo_CslaCEH1MjwhO1nq3-m_bP2jhJBup0FW0MrAb5B0FG5046ata89Z-z4KxMYd4l1jBqhCPHtGMVHVXqS6ZJVApez0dgYTzwB_Bsu2sAz8tHPY0wbPcxeMcP6EMd4PN4-jGLAWe1tI3xeepCmyx4tN67HQrIjAES6=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Muddy runoff floods a ditch near Salton City during Hurricane Hilary in August. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Mark Abramson for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">A rare tropical storm <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/SdNORaFkDUcuNxh9zxl8pA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOC8yMS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRyb3BpY2FsLXN0b3JtLWhpbGFyeS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw1kdgB471jJpQXUzy3c0ny3" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/SdNORaFkDUcuNxh9zxl8pA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOC8yMS91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRyb3BpY2FsLXN0b3JtLWhpbGFyeS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">arrived</a> in August and brought more than two inches of rain to Southern California. The tropical storm warning for Hurricane Hilary was the first ever issued for Southern California. The rain even <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/9H_GLqjQzsCXazQBV0c_aA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TYaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8xMS8yMC91cy9kZWF0aC12YWxsZXktbGFrZS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw33o84MZMGhwV5TV_Wr_qYU" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/9H_GLqjQzsCXazQBV0c_aA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TYaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8xMS8yMC91cy9kZWF0aC12YWxsZXktbGFrZS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ5JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NhXzIwMjMxMjEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExMDAzOSZubD1jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzQ4NDk2MTcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNTI0ODAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWY5ZDUwNDYwMjBjZmRlZmZmNWRlZGNjMzYxZDRiZTUzVwNueXRCCmVzRcB5ZWGXw0ZSGm1pa2VwQHRoZWRhaWx5b3V0c2lkZXIuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">formed a new lake</a> in famously parched Death Valley.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A bust of Dianne Feinstein is adorned with flowers. " class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiFUBfw4IUyNllMVk57k99YGWxWD9kJcytAx8QVgZ7wD6UmWj1D_HZrgbaZD3hvCWVgv6ieyON6lpJQuG82AaRDFvYgKJdmx2nalMjqugWPOCiQemDAly8ZRTOQKnCQ_WUWTUJJYMHnWRGB6F_g6i82GaYw-fd4ECqG72wX3gLqeeMfipcDxR9u_nYflBG2mf_Js26mZAhV1MWZ6vfbTztOTKPS6x2iOfdGrke95r2xlgok1c571rc=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">The statue of Dianne Feinstein outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Jim Wilson/The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">In September, Dianne Feinstein, the grande dame of California Democrats and an influential voice in the U.S. Senate for more than 30 years, died at 90. Our San Francisco bureau chief, Heather Knight, wrote about how central Feinstein, a former mayor, was to some of the city’s greatest triumphs as <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/kZxrwhX_eW8avtbZ04U27Q~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOS8zMC91cy9kaWFubmUtZmVpbnN0ZWluLWltcGFjdC1zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw0oThSxufPpLGHLSMSCbJPb" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/kZxrwhX_eW8avtbZ04U27Q~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOS8zMC91cy9kaWFubmUtZmVpbnN0ZWluLWltcGFjdC1zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDkmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2FfMjAyMzEyMTMmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTEwMDM5Jm5sPWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NDg0OTYxNyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE1MjQ4MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjlkNTA0NjAyMGNmZGVmZmY1ZGVkY2MzNjFkNGJlNTNXA255dEIKZXNFwHllYZfDRlIabWlrZXBAdGhlZGFpbHlvdXRzaWRlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">a financial and cultural capital of the West Coast.</a></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="A man wearing an American flag walks down the aisle at a school board meeting. Board members are seated in the background, with spectators seated on each side of the aisle." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhi-mkZLq57gHzopxwTp0YKwIzdn95C5OyBRUPIhyIXP6fBkcQZEwu8xbLrbvcgNQmCxdnJBvvWYTlHq6IxySQv2z-kHIW7y_kq94bFKtgkgCVRSC-vp4kH4GSlhJ9eC7ptcT_s8WbfbSMoPY4kl9rpeWPED8FFnDC3UvrmmuolNBGU1YpQo1O0DhMWsDaAUvC1uKFJCToakEPVUG602bdCBWN-pOOKztfn26fmNbPLDK0=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4174487310075121683css-u9v36b" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; width: 600px;" width="100%"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">A conservative activist wore a flag at a school board meeting in San Juan Capistrano in October. </span><span style="color: #888888; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px;">Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-small;">The culture wars were felt in California as Republicans, who have almost no power in the state government or in the state’s largest cities, <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EIyylcqJUbIxSa8QH3NlQg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8xMC8zMC91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXNjaG9vbC10cmFuc2dlbmRlci1wb2xpY3kuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw2psKoqFFXJbADxic4mDuTr" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EIyylcqJUbIxSa8QH3NlQg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8xMC8zMC91cy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLXNjaG9vbC10cmFuc2dlbmRlci1wb2xpY3kuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">took aim at school boards</a> as a forum for pushing right-wing policies like requiring parental notification when students seek to change their gender identity. A San Diego library’s small Pride display <a class="m_4174487310075121683css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/KznzgK3sj63YAqO3tu1qOA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8yMi91cy9wcmlkZS1ib29rcy1saWJyYXJ5LXByb3Rlc3QuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~&source=gmail&ust=1704754242111000&usg=AOvVaw0PLdOb-UpBXi7AKMWdorms" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/KznzgK3sj63YAqO3tu1qOA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnXEVFP0TiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8yMi91cy9wcmlkZS1ib29rcy1saWJyYXJ5LXByb3Rlc3QuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYV8yMDIzMTIxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTAwMzkmbmw9Y2FsaWZvcm5pYS10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc0ODQ5NjE3JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTUyNDgwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mOWQ1MDQ2MDIwY2ZkZWZmZjVkZWRjYzM2MWQ0YmU1M1cDbnl0Qgplc0XAeWVhl8NGUhptaWtlcEB0aGVkYWlseW91dHNpZGVyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~" style="color: #286ed0;" target="_blank">led to unexpected fighting</a> and made news around the nation.</span></p><p><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/3/#m_4174487310075121683_a11y-skip-universal-0" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 1px; max-height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 10px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br /> The year closed out with the LA Dodgers' new 700 Million Dollar Man!!! </span><table style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4174487310075121683css-1ux4czy" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Shohei Ohtani, wearing an Angels uniform, pumps his fist in celebration." class="m_4174487310075121683css-rqc852 CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgoIQRi8kh6XYX5msHPlJOK2hRstoZ2f2pNNEfuxsmubPfRun0yDORC22beUxO496vxFBWxYAYc5z7eNj-VwgR-cUwdmpgeO8f4JFkUjesUxvw1l8riYRdMv4st_7OJNcduQY-oU42cJ5iAbhkMm0TV1VgiCsHO5crHgtsh1DrIBCPq7t2Erb6Zw99SC9hbfEctADGSE67DuNe4mErFu4xP81GR-jBnIAYIjXJcfmFujvU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 10px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-23435462873126794042023-12-31T08:33:00.000-08:002023-12-31T08:36:41.862-08:00Happy New Year!!!<iframe width="735" height="735" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BH4VZe_8sbU" title="LIVE: New Year 2024 Celebrations | Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei Fireworks | World Welcomes 2024 | IN18L" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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In the spirit of the mission of our Education Property, we hereby present this courtesy the Team at TED and the Farhang Foundation held on December 6 as we wish all a joyous holiday season and a prosperous 2024:</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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font-size: x-large;">As the War in Gaza rages on, our team chose this for consideration as we gear up for 2024.</span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-36725018335258591282023-12-03T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-03T00:00:00.128-08:00Notations On Our World (Special W-End Edition): Elon Musk on Advertisers, Trust and the “Wild Storm” in His Mind | <iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2BfMuHDfGJI?si=m3CeY4FswBmf1I29" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-14078234168963546992023-11-28T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-28T00:00:00.124-08:00Notations On Our World (Weekly Edition): On Iran <iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/bgNsFNsYgH0?si=ODqAvmcG7U95L4so" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368172603788823903.post-21542588170363407262023-11-23T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-23T00:00:00.143-08:00On This Thanksgiving Day 2023 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Daily Outsider.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I used to care a lot about how things did.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I think most people are that way.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I remember when my first book, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/p8heh9hz9gg0d2sq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuNj9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00OTk5NThjZjQmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499616000&usg=AOvVaw29Bd1CFbm4WDqDw5Q1csWL" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/p8heh9hz9gg0d2sq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuNj9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00OTk5NThjZjQmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Trust Me I’m Lying</em></a>, came out I was probably 10% proud of what I’d done and 90% eagerly awaiting for the first week sales to tell me the rest of how proud I should be.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It was interminable, waiting to find out if I hit the bestseller lists.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But as I’ve gone on, I’ve become less and less this way.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It was a slow shift, I think, the product of getting skunked on the list more than a couple times. A result of realizing, as most creators eventually do, that sometimes the thing you think is your best work does the worst, and the thing you threw together in a few minutes suddenly does millions of views or outsells everything else.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I have this recurring image that plays in my mind these days, especially when I am working on a book or a particularly difficult article. I’d close my eyes, think about the project, and there it would be. The image is of an unidentifiable baseball player at the plate. It’s zoomed in like one of those SportsCenter closeups, and the batter is already mid-swing and connecting with the ball. It’s one of those beautiful, old-timey swings like Mickey Mantle or Ted Williams used to take. The front leg extended, the back leg all the way back, the bat coming up and hitting the ball perfectly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s it. That’s the whole image.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I don’t see where the ball goes, whether it was a base hit or a grand slam. I suspect earlier in my career, I would have cared about the outcome. I would have cared about who the player was and what team he played for. I would have needed to know whether the ball went foul or found a fielder’s mitt or cleared the upper deck. But as I have gotten better as a writer, paradoxically, it doesn’t even occur to me that such a thing would matter.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The image is just the connection. The bat meeting the ball. The thing that is supposed to be all but physically impossible — hitting a rock coming at 90 miles per hour, that traveled from an elevated mound down to the batter in less than 400 milliseconds. Over and over again. The connection.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It doesn’t seem like much but to hit a baseball is basically to defy physics. Very few people can time their swing just right to meet the ball and hear that satisfying crack as the ball heads back the other direction. It’s a miracle. It requires complete and total dedication.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">And it’s no small feat in and of itself…whether it goes foul or over the outfield wall.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">One of the things athletes learn is that if you let your mind wander, if you spend even a second thinking about where that ball is going to go, what you’re not doing <em>is your next job:</em> running.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I have a story about the great Frank Robinson that I tried to put into <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/x0hph6hwn996zzu5/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3Rpbnk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499616000&usg=AOvVaw3Gk3t18Z8H0EHQZt16CHid" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/x0hph6hwn996zzu5/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3Rpbnk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Discipline is Destiny</a> but it ended up in the new book on justice.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In some ordinary, otherwise forgettable game Robinson heard that majestic crack of the ball leaving his bat, and was so positive it went over the left field fence at Fenway, that he ran at half-speed to first base. But then suddenly, the ball came up short, banging off Fenway’s iconic 37-foot tall “Green Monster.” Robinson, had to settle for a single.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">His team won in a blowout, so it didn’t <em>really</em> matter. Yet after the game, Robinson walked in and slammed down $200 on the manager’s desk.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">He was fining himself. He had been too certain of the outcome, too focused on it, and it had meant he hadn’t done his best, he’d let his team–and himself–down.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Anyway, I’ve always loved that story. To me it’s a kind of greatness bigger than hitting a home run…and it has lessons for all of us.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Of course, here in the real world, companies have to make payroll. Quarterly numbers count. Whether you work with a publisher or you work for sales commissions, you do have to care if you’re getting results or not. Robinson won MVP Awards in both the National and American Leagues (and a World Series MVP to top it off). Obviously this dude likes winning, and he knows his way around a stat sheet.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Yet, the longer you do whatever it is you do, the more you realize the truth of one of the basic principles of Stoicism–the part about how <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/dpheh0h0q88gkwtm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_cmVsb2FkPTkmdj0zU1RqT0ttdUpoYyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499616000&usg=AOvVaw2hWmUmZwUkFtD1ik9ycwyY" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/dpheh0h0q88gkwtm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_cmVsb2FkPTkmdj0zU1RqT0ttdUpoYyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">some things are in your control and some things aren’t</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Doing the work. That’s up to me. How the work is received? Less so. How well it’s appreciated? How it stacks up next to other people’s work–in quality or in revenue? Again, much less so. “Ambition is tying your well-being to what other people do and say,” Marcus Aurelius writes in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/e0hph7h0kqqge2c8/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499616000&usg=AOvVaw2YMk-H7_Yvt9MAmB7mFDSE" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/e0hph7h0kqqge2c8/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>. “Sanity is tying it to your own actions.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">When you’re sitting there hoping, expecting, needing to be validated by a certain kind of success, what that’s doing is taking you away from the process in front you. You’re taking yourself away from work you could be doing to make the thing better, work that actually will make a difference in the way that dreams and expectations do not.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It was worrying too much about things he couldn’t control, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/7qh7h8ho0ww784fz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv&source=gmail&ust=1700541499616000&usg=AOvVaw08br4bJdMwSVrY-bcAH7Jh" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/7qh7h8ho0ww784fz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Ian Happ told me on The Daily Stoic Podcast</a>, that got him sent back down to the minor leagues after a great rookie season with the Chicago Cubs in 2017. “I was caring more about what the guy who made the decisions thought and got away from my process and what made me a good player,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/7qh7h8ho0ww784fz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv&source=gmail&ust=1700541499617000&usg=AOvVaw2ww776ex3rTqfBd36lJq1Y" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/7qh7h8ho0ww784fz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Happ explained</a>. “When you worry about the things that might get you put on the bench, the end result of that is always, you do the things that get you put on the bench.” He shifted his focus back to the work. “Instead of wondering why or trying really hard to impress a coach or the people who make the decisions, I said, ‘you know what? I’m going to believe in myself, put in the work, and at some point, they’re not going to be able to keep me out of the lineup.” With this approach, Happ worked himself back into the Cubs’ lineup and had a breakout season in 2022, making his first MLB All-Star team and picking up his first Gold Glove Award in the process (he kept that mindset and actually won his second Gold Glove a few weeks ago). That’s what happens when you care more about what you are doing and less about what others are thinking.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">What you’re also doing is depriving yourself of the joy and gratitude of the specialness of <em>getting to do it at all.</em> It’s an incredible thing to be a professional baseball player or to get to write books or to do whatever is that we’re called to do in life. But being outcome oriented, results driven is to spit in the face of that. Instead of being present, you are basically thinking, “I can’t wait for this to be over so I can find out whether it was worth it or not.” And let me tell you, the world is not kind to that kind of neediness. It is not kind to that kind of ingratitude either.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I said that on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/p8heh9hz9gg0d2sq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuNj9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00OTk5NThjZjQmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499617000&usg=AOvVaw1HRwCKL_bweWczMd4rQTVW" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/p8heh9hz9gg0d2sq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuNj9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00OTk5NThjZjQmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Trust Me I’m Lying</em></a><em>,</em> I was 10% intrinsically secure and 90% waiting to be told my worth by the market. For <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/x0hph6hwn996zzu5/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3Rpbnk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700541499617000&usg=AOvVaw1b8p5yg2OzPB1wdi3tnex4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmum662ervumh0q552nb6hdedw400/x0hph6hwn996zzu5/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3Rpbnk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Discipline is Destiny</em></a>, I’d say that ratio has come almost entirely around. I didn’t think the book was perfect, but I had genuinely enjoyed doing it–been improved by doing it. I felt it was the best work I’d done, and while my publisher did send me my first week sales as they do for every author, I was genuinely shocked several months later when my agent told me it was my fastest selling book. What I was most pleased by though was the way this had snuck up on me and how little this news changed my opinion about the work, positive or negative.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I was just vibing still on that initial connection with the ball. The rest was extra.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As it should be.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKLCNHskuKVX1fqwcAG5CmJWgdODkpkX3K2GMM1N1SWN_Ji2wAz9yn2-KMdeMJBvrpDzkfiTzad0F2-XzYP60C6ATmzQB7J_LGKEZ0EY2PoNEaNa5uhOl1y-jjhzHbavmI7oKUe4SFltSHAfcqNZnaR9FpRp-XqFY6Ylh1HhuXBzm947SmJhsli5ZXbsJJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKLCNHskuKVX1fqwcAG5CmJWgdODkpkX3K2GMM1N1SWN_Ji2wAz9yn2-KMdeMJBvrpDzkfiTzad0F2-XzYP60C6ATmzQB7J_LGKEZ0EY2PoNEaNa5uhOl1y-jjhzHbavmI7oKUe4SFltSHAfcqNZnaR9FpRp-XqFY6Ylh1HhuXBzm947SmJhsli5ZXbsJJ" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.defenseone.com/click/33382619.6212/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vYXNzZXRzL2FybXktdHJlbmRzLXE0MjMvcG9ydGFsLz9vcmVmPWVtYWls/5623f35c15dd96657df7a0eaCa5c2f811&source=gmail&ust=1700452038533000&usg=AOvVaw1Z-oL4o4V7Kq-WkJ4wKXcm" href="https://link.defenseone.com/click/33382619.6212/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZW9uZS5jb20vYXNzZXRzL2FybXktdHJlbmRzLXE0MjMvcG9ydGFsLz9vcmVmPWVtYWls/5623f35c15dd96657df7a0eaCa5c2f811" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 15px;" target="_blank">What's Inside:</a></strong><br /></span><ul style="color: black; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Army eyes munitions stockpiles amid focus on longer wars</strong><br /><i>The Army is using robots to help ratchet up shell production, but precision missiles are a harder problem.</i></span></li><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Army faces logistics, alliance hurdles in the Pacific</strong><br /><i>Many civilian logistics contractors in the Philippines, a key U.S. ally, are likely too close to China for the U.S. to work with.</i></span></li><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>US Army’s Pacific corps will invite more allies to join groundbreaking comms platform</strong><br /><i>Mission partner environment, which debuted with Australia, will be extended to other exercise partners in the coming year.</i></span></li><br /></ul><center><table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 20px 0px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="background-color: #fecd0a; 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font-size: x-large;">We present the following on Leadership courtesy Ryan Holiday and Chief Executive Magazine as our weekly "Virtual Route 66" continues: </span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; padding: 20px 20px 0px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222;"><h2 style="color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m479wb5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMjctdGhpbmdzLWl2ZS1sZWFybmVkLWZyb20tMTUwLW1pbGxpb24tcG9kY2FzdC1kb3dubG9hZHMv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2_KRS7gXeZRflWW03IrBQH" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m479wb5/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvMjctdGhpbmdzLWl2ZS1sZWFybmVkLWZyb20tMTUwLW1pbGxpb24tcG9kY2FzdC1kb3dubG9hZHMv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">27 Thing's I've Learned From 150 Million Podcasts Downloads</a></h2><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 800px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x278esm/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtc2lnbmVkLWVkaXRpb24%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0Lw8QWwGy3osBGIeBhv5FZ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x278esm/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtc2lnbmVkLWVkaXRpb24=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; display: block;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhtVvCnkmDPwskKAswLL3ky1cgEJrDqmCBn2c8uTN_BCoztfrOmPX89R-thNHh2w2W0TBfBHtYuepDJDsyoG-4Vd5Hpyn7vjFHuRhE75d8VVBZ-zw6_U2C1x4GslMsetnNSMBKqsRCSAGAaIJIYZE9Huyx8OuMT3V5ZdwzfnLbVd4Vy2saHIMI8CaWx6g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 800px;" width="800" /></a></figure></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/e0hph7h0nzdnqqa8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZTExN2ZkNGI2Jl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3F2rgp-d1nRk3RSDdcvg4x" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/e0hph7h0nzdnqqa8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZTExN2ZkNGI2Jl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">his letters</a>—the pre-digital medium for distant long-form conversation—Seneca instructs his friend Lucilius to find one thing each day that will fortify him against death, despair, fear, or adversity. Just one thing. One nugget. And that’s what most of Seneca’s letters to his friend are about. They have a quote in them. Or a little prescription. Or a story. But in each case, Seneca is explicit. Here’s your lesson for the day, he says. Here’s your one thing.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Obviously that’s the logic behind the daily emails I write (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4wzbz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lbWFpbA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2SaS9vy95nH6XO0J9vy7Pf" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4wzbz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lbWFpbA==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Daily Stoic</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/owhkhqhr8e08g5hv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseWRhZC5jb20v&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1ENk-IMKRaWr3J86i9zpIF" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/owhkhqhr8e08g5hv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseWRhZC5jb20v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Daily Dad</a>), but it’s also the way I try to live. Every time I listen to a podcast or record one myself, I try to walk away having grabbed at least one little thing. That’s how wisdom is accumulated—piece by piece, day by day, book by book, podcast by podcast.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It’s not much, but considering the scale of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdp5up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw28pfsRHsG68497uJhCa6H3" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdp5up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The Daily Stoic Podcast</a>, it’s actually added up quite a bit. I’ve interviewed roughly 200 people over the last five years. That’s maybe 300 hours of audio with people who’ve won Academy Awards, the Super Bowl, and sold millions of records. I’ve also probably appeared on ~250 shows myself since my first book came out in 2012. Here’s a list of stuff I have learned that I think is worth passing along…</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– The novelist Philipp Meyer (whose book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep7gmtq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtc29uP19wb3M9MSZfc2lkPWZkZWVhOTE1NCZfc3M9cg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1yObq2BSKUXWI7VOqqgvoj" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep7gmtq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtc29uP19wb3M9MSZfc2lkPWZkZWVhOTE1NCZfc3M9cg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Son</em></a> is an incredible read) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m4792s5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1LNUxMX1Rmay1LMCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWNQb2RjYXN0&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0kHAby_7ORUODBluFh8XhU" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m4792s5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1LNUxMX1Rmay1LMCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWNQb2RjYXN0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">said</a>, “You have to be very careful about to what (and to whom) you’re giving the best part of your day.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– When I <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/6qheh8h72432nefo/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1ZMFBMRHY4RDBPQSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWNQb2RjYXN0&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw30-KjlK95G6-TBNRkDP-0P" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/6qheh8h72432nefo/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1ZMFBMRHY4RDBPQSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWNQb2RjYXN0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">interviewed Gretchen Rubin</a>, one of the most thought-provoking and influential experts on happiness, she told me about one of the things she learned from her former boss, the Supreme Court’s first female justice, Sandra Day O’Connor. Shortly after Gretchen published <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/kkhmh6hl9po96qcl/aHR0cHM6Ly9nZW5pLnVzL3Jtc0NaTg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3LRwQU1eNamwpvlUSQHVou" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/kkhmh6hl9po96qcl/aHR0cHM6Ly9nZW5pLnVzL3Jtc0NaTg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Happiness Project</em></a><em>,</em> she asked O’Connor who she had clerked for, what is the secret to happiness? O’Connor replied, <em>“The secret to happiness is work worth doing.”</em> Perfect.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– Something I’ve started implementing <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/58hvh7hm9w49kdh6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hZGFtLWdyYW50Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3AG5d9UaVgslL3hFWVpGOt" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/58hvh7hm9w49kdh6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hZGFtLWdyYW50Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">from Adam Grant</a>: in addition to coaches and mentors, you need to have judges. Adam was a competitive springboard diver growing up, “and I found it enormously helpful to get a 0 to 10 score every time I came out of the water.” When he transitioned from sports to the work world, he found it hard to get useful feedback. “So I started asking people—I would give them drafts—and I’d ask, ‘can you rate this 0 to 10?’” After a presentation—what would you score that 0 to 10? After giving a talk, after leading a meeting, after publishing a newsletter, whatever—ask, can you score this 0 to 10?</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– I got a cold plunge tub after <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/25h2hoh2oxqo4kf3/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1JTWE2NjNxUWE2ayZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2g1IKH4MkTKYP4MK0twHBq" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/25h2hoh2oxqo4kf3/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1JTWE2NjNxUWE2ayZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">talking to Joe Rogan on his podcast</a>. Before then, I thought all the data about the physical benefits of taking cold plunges was mostly bullshit. But Joe talked about the mental benefits—“Difficult things are good for you,” he said. “They’re good for your mind.” It echoes Seneca: “We treat the body rigorously so that it will not be disobedient to the mind.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– The famous philosopher Diogenes the Cynic was once seen begging for money from a statue. What on earth are you doing, someone asked. “I’m getting practice in being refused,” Diogenes replied. I’ve talked to a couple professional baseball players on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdp5up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw28pfsRHsG68497uJhCa6H3" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdp5up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">the podcast</a> (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e2z8b9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2Y-rhPgb_7qSWC1m_zafre" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e2z8b9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tbGItYWxsLXN0YXItaWFuLWhhcHAtb24tdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLWRpc2NpcGxpbmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Ian Happ</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/48hvhehr2372g5tx/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zY290dC1vYmVyZy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2v8wXX3Ohl-O8XnmlXo69_" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/48hvhehr2372g5tx/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zY290dC1vYmVyZy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Scott Oberg</a> are both must listens) as well as professional basketball players (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/wnh2hghwodlogkb7/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jaHJpcy1ib3NoLTIv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2F4a__PqFoWEWFaA49xzOo" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/wnh2hghwodlogkb7/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jaHJpcy1ib3NoLTIv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Chris Bosh</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/08hwh9hd74p7zwul/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9mb3JtZXItbmJhLXN0YXItY3V0dGluby1tb2JsZXktb24tcHVyc3VpbmctZ3JlYXRuZXNzLWFuZC1kZXZlbG9waW5nLWJhbGFuY2UtaW4tbGlmZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2PmU6jG1Zik_SdxBbelHDr" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/08hwh9hd74p7zwul/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9mb3JtZXItbmJhLXN0YXItY3V0dGluby1tb2JsZXktb24tcHVyc3VpbmctZ3JlYXRuZXNzLWFuZC1kZXZlbG9waW5nLWJhbGFuY2UtaW4tbGlmZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Cuttino Mobley</a>) and entrepreneurs (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/m2h7h5h8nxlne8tm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zYXR1cmRheS1hcHJpbC0xMS10aW0tZmVycmlzcy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3FoJgRs6Rx6wTvWKwb8p_-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/m2h7h5h8nxlne8tm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zYXR1cmRheS1hcHJpbC0xMS10aW0tZmVycmlzcy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Tim Ferriss</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x275esm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yb2ItZHlyZGVrLW9uLXRoZS1wb3dlci1vZi1saXZpbmctd2l0aC1pbnRlbnRpb24v&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3ZC3O_GsBPDpyoWZAPjN1u" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x275esm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yb2ItZHlyZGVrLW9uLXRoZS1wb3dlci1vZi1saXZpbmctd2l0aC1pbnRlbnRpb24v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Rob Dyrdek</a>). One thing they’ll all tell you is that a person who is afraid to strike out, afraid to miss, afraid to fail is a person who will not succeed.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– After running 100 miles in less than 24 hours, Nate Boyer told me, “the worst part was the expansive flat portions without the ups and downs—there might be a life lesson in that.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– My wife Samantha and I started recording conversations (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4zzcz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1qeUptWFEtQ28wbyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw29sZ8DHNPL7Ps6VynVpSE7" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4zzcz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1qeUptWFEtQ28wbyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdw5ap/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1Jb3dXcjI2dkVzRSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0pXTiw91S9RT3NHaRBe7BX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmdw5ap/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1Jb3dXcjI2dkVzRSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/58hvh7hm9w497ds6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1INE8tdUFtZ2V6byZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1J-s4kE6z2Ta2SU0d3h8k-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/58hvh7hm9w497ds6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1INE8tdUFtZ2V6byZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e298c9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj16Z3BaU24yOUpaNCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1Of11jlPMZY-rpraLUnQYU" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e298c9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj16Z3BaU24yOUpaNCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5RGFk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">here</a>) for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/8ghqhohl5875kxik/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20vdXMvcG9kY2FzdC90aGUtZGFpbHktZGFkL2lkMTQ5MDAwNzQ4Nw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2FozQmLjWhvvxvppC2Qa0z" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/8ghqhohl5875kxik/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20vdXMvcG9kY2FzdC90aGUtZGFpbHktZGFkL2lkMTQ5MDAwNzQ4Nw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The Daily Dad Podcast</a>, and it’s become one of my favorite podcast formats. We talk about things we’re working on as parents, how we can better support each other, tips we’ve picked up from books or from other parents, phases our kids are going through, how to handle and adapt to those phases, and really just all things parenting.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/vqh3hrhpk6qk8ktg/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1lY0lsSVhUTXdlSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1y9HJlcDC5Nz8Lh764T4hJ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/vqh3hrhpk6qk8ktg/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1lY0lsSVhUTXdlSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The mental performance coach Greg Harden</a> (who has worked with Tom Brady and Michael Phelps, among countless other top performers) had a great line: in the way that the ability to quickly recover after a workout is an indicator of physical fitness, “People who are mentally fit recover faster than the average person.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– The serial entrepreneur <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/l2hehmh3kpdkwoa6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj14bmxhREtCNUZtSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1V9uYCG5cj54FrrvNjLWzf" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/l2hehmh3kpdkwoa6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj14bmxhREtCNUZtSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Kevin Rose made a good point</a> about how things don’t just cost you monetarily. They cost you mentally too. “The thing that I’ve realized is that every object I own, every thing, is a subconscious mental burden. Without a doubt. It can be the wheel-barrow that has a flat tire sitting out in the backyard—some part of me is thinking about how I know I have to figure out how to get that fixed at some point. So I’ve reduced the stuff that I have by an order of magnitude.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– In August of 1967, Lieutenant Dave Carey was shot out of his A-4 Skyhawk over Vietnam. Soon enough, he found himself a prisoner in Hanoi, where he would subsequently be beaten, tortured and placed into solitary confinement. For six years, he languished there, kept going only by the comrades around him, and an occasional pick me up from the Stoics. As Carey <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex43zcz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1XcEZBVHZmdzQ4byZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0qQwbP1hr-Bwdf9W79TSn7" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex43zcz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1XcEZBVHZmdzQ4byZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">told me in an incredible episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast</a>, fellow prisoners would tap, “Stockdale wants you to remember what Epictetus said,” from an adjoining cell. Carey came to understand this to mean <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/owhkhqhr8e0855fv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yZW1lbWJlci15b3UtZG9udC1jb250cm9sLXdoYXQtaGFwcGVucy15b3UtY29udHJvbC1ob3cteW91LXJlc3BvbmQv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw3vwCZehaPwqBAOI22ImhEX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/owhkhqhr8e0855fv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yZW1lbWJlci15b3UtZG9udC1jb250cm9sLXdoYXQtaGFwcGVucy15b3UtY29udHJvbC1ob3cteW91LXJlc3BvbmQv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">focus on what you control</a>, focus on the choices you can make.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– Related, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep78maq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS9wL0NGYVlGbGRBSWtmLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0KEiYNgtVNeQR5zO1o6XZP" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep78maq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS9wL0NGYVlGbGRBSWtmLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">I asked Jocko Willink</a> what his advice would be for leaders during turbulent times. “Really, it just comes down to having humility.” It’s immediately and unflinchingly accepting the reality of the situation. Not denying the problem, running from it, or expecting magical thinking to rescue you.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m47x2h5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9oZWF0aGVyLWNveC1yaWNoYXJkc29uLW9uLXdoYXQtaGlzdG9yeS10ZWFjaGVzLXVzLWFib3V0LWZpZ2h0aW5nLXRoZS1kYXJrLWVuZXJneS1vZi10aGUtaHVtYW4tc291bC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw2tPMnLLSzWkqUpoNYb0ZIb" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m47x2h5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9oZWF0aGVyLWNveC1yaWNoYXJkc29uLW9uLXdoYXQtaGlzdG9yeS10ZWFjaGVzLXVzLWFib3V0LWZpZ2h0aW5nLXRoZS1kYXJrLWVuZXJneS1vZi10aGUtaHVtYW4tc291bC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">I had an incredible conversation with the historian Heather Cox Richardson</a>, who writes “Letters From an American”—the Substack newsletter with the most number of subscribers. This line stuck with me: “it’s a truism in American history that if you have rights, you plead the Constitution. If you want rights, you plead the Declaration.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– One of the great perks of my life is getting to have regular conversations with one of the great writers of our time, Robert Greene. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/qvh8h7hr63l6qkil/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9rTTNNQ3hDcXE1cw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw0skz28NFh6QgMUAoC7DkLF" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/qvh8h7hr63l6qkil/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9rTTNNQ3hDcXE1cw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">We recently decided to record one of those conversations</a>. I asked him about what I think is the thread through all his books, something which is also in short supply these days: an unflinching commitment to reality, even when it’s inconvenient. “Whenever I hold a belief, or I’m writing a book,” Robert explained, “I always start with the premise that I’m probably wrong, that I’m actually quite ignorant, that my idea is pretty stupid. And I look at the evidence on the other side and I examine it and I try to convince myself that my initial idea was right. And if it isn’t, then I change it.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– The legendary music producer <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/3ohphkh7d8kdvwhr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yaWNrLXJ1YmluLW9uLXRoZS1jcmVhdGl2ZS1hY3QtcGFydC1vbmUv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1hM8yn1uet3JXKHaFQVEbI" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/3ohphkh7d8kdvwhr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yaWNrLXJ1YmluLW9uLXRoZS1jcmVhdGl2ZS1hY3QtcGFydC1vbmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Rick Rubin</a> (we actually did a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/reh8hoh05po5k7f2/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yaWNrLXJ1YmluLW9uLXRoZS1jcmVhdGl2ZS1hY3QtcGFydC10d28v&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw38gruMFpX8y6Ahp_obPPLF" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/reh8hoh05po5k7f2/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9yaWNrLXJ1YmluLW9uLXRoZS1jcmVhdGl2ZS1hY3QtcGFydC10d28v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">fantastic double episode</a> with him) talked about why he doesn’t try to chase trends: “I love music that is outside of time. And one of the things about using organic instruments is, a piano a hundred years ago sounds like a piano today and it will sound like a piano in a hundred years. If you use the latest sounds, the newest sounds, the sounds of today—then tomorrow, they’ll sound like the sounds of yesterday…The newest of sounds can quickly sound very dated.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– In a classic episode of <em>Seinfeld</em>, George Costanza has great success doing the opposite of what his instincts tell him to do. This is now known as The Costanza Principle, and it turns out to be scientifically-sound advice. The positive psychiatrist <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/vqh3hrhpk6qkmkug/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20vbm8vcG9kY2FzdC9kci1zYW1hbnRoYS1ib2FyZG1hbi1vbi1pbmNyZWFzaW5nLXZpdGFsaXR5L2lkMTQzMDMxNTkzMT9pPTEwMDA1OTc5MjUwMzEmbD1uYg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290579000&usg=AOvVaw1rrC4falaIhDCDIkft6yp9" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/vqh3hrhpk6qkmkug/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20vbm8vcG9kY2FzdC9kci1zYW1hbnRoYS1ib2FyZG1hbi1vbi1pbmNyZWFzaW5nLXZpdGFsaXR5L2lkMTQzMDMxNTkzMT9pPTEwMDA1OTc5MjUwMzEmbD1uYg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Dr. Samantha Boardman told me</a>, “There’s so much messaging today about how you always have to be yourself and trust your feelings. But I tell people, 'be un-you.' Like, what is the opposite of what you feel like doing right now? Or who is someone you really admire—what would they do in this moment? And I actually think that can get us closer to the versions of ourselves that we would like to be…Separating oneself from one’s impulse, taking a healthy step back and gaining some distance between what you feel like doing and what’s actually going to help you—you’ll make a better choice.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– At the beginning of my interview (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/m2h7h5h8nxln28im/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kci1lZGl0aC1lZ2VyLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2Se6a_kSdRSV_E0bf6s0SR" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/m2h7h5h8nxln28im/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kci1lZGl0aC1lZ2VyLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">you can listen here</a>) with the peerless Dr. Edith Eger—Holocaust survivor and the author of one of my favorite books, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x27defm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9jaG9pY2UtZW1icmFjZS10aGUtcG9zc2libGU_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZmU0NTMwY2NiJl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw3twPPMPYt0cXIXNw_S6h6u" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x27defm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9jaG9pY2UtZW1icmFjZS10aGUtcG9zc2libGU_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZmU0NTMwY2NiJl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Choice</em></a>—I asked her about something I regretted, a relationship I had messed up. She looked at me and said she could give me a gift that would solve that guilt right now. “I give you a sentence,” she said, “One sentence—<em>if I knew then what I know now, I would have done things differently.</em>” That’s the end of that, she said. “Guilt is in the past, and the one thing you cannot change is the past.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4dziz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS9wL0NIaTVWUXdock9zLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2WGEQMxbWryWFkUHmgN0cI" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4dziz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS9wL0NIaTVWUXdock9zLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Matthew McConaughey told me</a> why he shut down his production company and his music label. “I was making B’s in five things. I wanna make A’s in three things.” Those three things: his family, his foundation, his acting career.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmd55up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zaGFrYS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw3PWS65sSWWYnmjQ5qI7ba6" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/z2hghnh3dzmd55up/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zaGFrYS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The great basketball coach Shaka Smart said</a> something similar. He tells his players not to figure out their priorities, but to figure out their priority. “The root of the word ‘priority’ is singular… It was a singular word—the one thing. In modern times, we’ve turned it into ‘priorities,’ but then all of a sudden it turns into eight, ten, 15 things and that defeats the purpose.” Just do one high-quality thing every day, he said; it adds up.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/6qheh8h72432xebo/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tY2NvbmF1Z2hleS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2VHrkkgJIcWq_05FO76QOK" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/6qheh8h72432xebo/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tY2NvbmF1Z2hleS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Another from McConaughey</a>. He told me he’s known in Hollywood as “a quick no and a long yes.” What a great expression! Before he says yes to doing a movie, he sleeps on it for ten days to two weeks in the frame of mind that he’s not going to do it. If he sleeps well, he doesn’t do it. If the thought that he has to do it wakes him up at night, he does it.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– Somewhat related: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/kkhmh6hl9po9zqil/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS8xdUxEV2Y2ak0tYw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2UdwHs9H9_I1E73vpau6f-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/kkhmh6hl9po9zqil/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS8xdUxEV2Y2ak0tYw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">when I did Tom Segura’s podcast</a>, he told me he’s been trying to be a ‘long yes’ when it comes to buying stuff. “There’s a part of buying things that feels good. But I also feel like it’s sometimes good to deny yourself the thing you want in that moment. Instead of going, ‘I want this, I’m gonna get it right now,’ why don’t I give it a month and then be like, ‘do I still want that thing?’ or was that just a passing moment?”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/qvh8h7hr63l6ekbl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1YU2RRUFZFWXRBaw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw1zwu9KEAPv76G2vorDEEgC" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/qvh8h7hr63l6ekbl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1YU2RRUFZFWXRBaw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The legendary basketball coach George Raveling told me</a> he sees reading as a moral imperative. “People died,” he said, speaking of slaves, soldiers, and civil rights activists, “so I could have the ability to read.” If you’re not reading, if books aren’t playing a major role in your life, you are betraying the legacy that they left for the generations after them.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– An essential piece of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e248b9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1PUXVseWhocnFrYw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw1jm12qlNfgMfwE3ZxRw7a0" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/9qhzhnhp28e248b9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1PUXVseWhocnFrYw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">advice I got from the author Steven Pressfield</a>: There are professional habits and amateur ones. Which are you practicing? Is this a pro or an amateur move? Ask yourself that. Constantly.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– Somewhat related, the NASCAR driver and student of Stoicism, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/08hwh9hd74p7vwul/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9icmFkLWtlc2Vsb3dza2kv&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw0gY5ShI9tmmxrUpcFchKN1" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/08hwh9hd74p7vwul/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9icmFkLWtlc2Vsb3dza2kv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Brad Keselowski, talked about</a> what distinguishes a professional in his field (and it applies to most fields). “If the conditions were always perfect, the average 12-year-old could do my job,” Brad said. “The problem is that those days are very seldom.” Can you still show up and perform when the conditions aren’t perfect? That’s the question.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– I was surprised to hear <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x27vehm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kYXdlcy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2mZrVL7nUoqlB9DFhNC8sd" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/dpheh0h07x27vehm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kYXdlcy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes</a> say that she doesn’t miss or reminisce on being at the Olympics or standing on the podium. “When I dream about exciting moments and memories in my life, those don’t come up… It’s those moments with your family. It’s those moments with your spouse. It’s those moments knowing you planted an amazing positive seed in a stranger’s life. Those are the moments that fulfill us.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– The great <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4qzbz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zYW0taGFycmlzLW9uLXN0b2ljaXNtLWFuZC1taW5kZnVsbmVzcy1wcmFjdGljZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw2RsYpejNTqhzSMW7cyuNlX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4qzbz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zYW0taGFycmlzLW9uLXN0b2ljaXNtLWFuZC1taW5kZnVsbmVzcy1wcmFjdGljZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Sam Harris explained something similar</a>. He said it didn’t matter what peak experiences you’d had, what insights you’d been able to come up with while meditating, how enlightened you felt after all the years of practice and study. All that really counted, he said, was what you could muster in the course of ordinary, day-to-day life, or more specifically, in any one present moment.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep7mmuq/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9rOXBqenVTal8yWQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw1RkoHvr2uMoaISnPu44WqA" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/p8heh9hz7ep7mmuq/aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9rOXBqenVTal8yWQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Austin Kleon</a> talked about being a parent: “You have to be the kind of man that you want them to be. You have to become the kind of human being that you want them to become.” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4q2sz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93YXN0ZS1uby10aW1lLWFyZ3VpbmctZ29vZC1tYW4tb25lLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw18YmflRd23ndM6Xp8CZGGf" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/7qh7h8ho4ex4q2sz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93YXN0ZS1uby10aW1lLWFyZ3VpbmctZ29vZC1tYW4tb25lLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Marcus Aurelius</a> was talking about being a human being: “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">– <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m47omc5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kYW5pY2EtcGF0cmljay8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699934290580000&usg=AOvVaw0k5mHWAo7FCZtu0y9rHsOZ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/p9u3w3qmxrc9h38mp52brumomq933/x0hph6hw7m47omc5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kYW5pY2EtcGF0cmljay8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Danica Patrick</a> talked about the surreal reality that’s been her life as an international celebrity. “It made me realize that the stuff that we see—the celebrities, the magazines we pick up—we just think, ‘Oh, they’re famous.’ No, they’re being made famous. Somebody’s paying for that… So early on, I realized that there’s a lot of bullshit out there. And that there’s an agenda behind everything.” This is something I try to remember whenever I see someone getting attention and wonder, “Why am I not getting that?”</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">***</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">What I think is so incredible about podcasts is that other people may have listened to those same episodes and taken something totally different from them. In fact, I know they have because I’ve heard from them. But what gets me excited is thinking that across those hundreds of episodes and now cumulatively over 150M downloads (and many more views on video), that adds up to an unfathomable amount of wisdom that people have been able to add to their lives.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The line from Zeno was that we were given two ears and one mouth for a reason. That reason? To listen more than we talk.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">To learn from people who can teach us. 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To compete—and build a company with lasting value—CEOs must refocus their teams on the one person who drives everything else: the customer. Luckily, he has a metric to do exactly that.<br /><br /><strong>TIES THAT BIND.</strong> Building a network of partnerships can be a powerful differentiator—or chew up resources and introduce unanticipated risks. CEOs share strategies for forging alliances that add long-term value, not stress.<br /><br /><strong>SOLVING MANUFACTURING'S PEOPLE PROBLEM.</strong> As a dearth of skilled workers continues to plague the sector, CEOs gathered to share leadership observations, advice and inspiration at <em>Chief Executive's</em> Smart Manufacturing Summit. Some takeaways.<br /><br /><strong>GROWING YOUR TALENT PIPELINE.</strong> Dealing with a shortage of skilled labor requires ingenuity. With strategies that range from rethinking recruiting to tapping the power of purpose, CEOs are putting theirs to work.<br /><br /><strong>REGIONAL REPORT: THE MIDWEST.</strong> Despite an overall slowing of growth, many Midwestern states are succeeding at attracting new projects.<br /><br /><strong>PLANE ADVANTAGE.</strong> Protests, regulatory pressure and personal priorities are prompting private aviation firms to track and report on emission-lowering efforts.<br /><br /><strong>LAST WORD.</strong> Solving for future shocks. Prep your company to prosper in adversity with these four steps.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0