FVS 50: Success Comes to Those Who Own Their Pace

FEBRUARY 14, 2021 · 4 MIN READ · writingnewsletterfor-value-sake

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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving” — Albert Einstein

Here is your weekly For Value Sake, contributing value to your growth. A weekly post that contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk. These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week.

1. Articles Worth Reading

I. Success Comes To Those Who Own Their Pace

Personal Development

Success

Excerpts:

  • “Every hour I took a break to rest and sharpen my axe.”
  • “The beauty of the world we live in is anyone can create success.”
  • “Success is maintained by mastering the delicate mix of doing the right things for you as an individual on a daily basis.”

This is a concise and punchy article. Goes straight to the point. Own your journey, don’t go with what everyone else is doing. Ask yourself what works for me, and do that. Don’t be forced to always be in motion going nowhere. Be mindful!

II. You Can’t Control The Outcome, You Can Only Control The Process

Wealth Development

Excerpts:

  • “Detailed goal setting is over-rated and mostly a waste of time”
  • “Love what you do is the mantra for professionals”
  • “You don’t need detailed and specific goals. You need action: a series of baby steps”

We typically focus on goals even when it comes to our finances, the author is advising we focus on the process. How are you dealing with your finances day to day? Most wealthy people got wealthy by being boringly consistent with a set of high-value habits. The things that will make you wealthy you already know. What is left is for you to commit to doing them consistently even when you don’t feel like it.

III. How to Love Someone in the Way They Need

Relationship Development

Excerpts:

  • “The word love is both a noun and a verb”
  • “It is mostly demonstrated with some type of action, subtle or grand, but an action”
  • “There are five basic ways to communicate your love to your partner: words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch”

In the Spirit of Feb 14th, let me sprinkle some love here. Other people are not you, so love them how they wanna be loved, not how you wanna be loved. It’s about them, not you!

IV. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Venture Development

Excerpts:

  • “There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule”
  • “When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster”

I was glad when I read this, it was super helpful. I need long hours to be able to create. As my team has grown, I am spending more time managing. This piece gave me the mental model on how to structure my day into 2 modes: when I’m managing and when I’m making. For instance, I wrote this in my maker schedule 3 hours after everyone had slept.

2. Video Worth Watching

Lera Boroditsky: How language shapes the way we think

  • “People who speak different languages will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.”
  • “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is.”
  • “The language that you speak shapes the way that you think.”

I’m sure you haven’t thought so much about this in the past. A lot of your mental models and ideological perceptions of life are shaped by the language that you speak. We already know that our culture shapes our thinking, I’m just realizing how much of that is embedded in the language.

3. What I’m Reading

In The Plex

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

“Google is best known for its search engine, but as Steven Levy explains, Google’s ambitions go far beyond internet searching. It has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, television, and is the most powerful company in the advertising business.”

This was such a fantastic read! It’s a pretty long book, but I read it all and scheduled it as the monthly reading for my team. It is a really inspirational story of how Google came to be. Taught me a lot around the value of people and how they shape your culture. It changed my life when it comes to picking people to work with.

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