Articles – Page 15 – Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

You have time

Peter Drucker wrote more in his last quarter of his life than this first 3 quarters.

You just need to be curious and start, you never know, you might change the world.

Don’t Fight The Rip

Sometimes your first instinct is not a good one.

Fighting an ocean rip is a unachievable task. Riding the rip to a better spot to get out and use the waves to bring you back to sure is a counterintuitive but safer option.

Think About Less

Warren Buffet doesn’t look at every share, he thinks deeply about a select few.

Thinking about everything doesn’t show your intellect. Refining and thinking more deeply about less things creates better outcomes.

You might be the c*nt

It can feel like other people act like c*nts when they don’t agree with you.

Trying to understand someone else’s point of view can help you understand your position better.

Blindly thinking you are right because you said it, and not looking critically at yourself might mean that you are the cunt.

Don’t fix it in post

Creativity doesn’t happen with an abundance of resources, it is born from the presence of constraints.

Being put in a box doesn’t limit your creativity, it reveals it.

Steph Curry was nearly an NBA bust. The Bleacher Report said he is probably never going to be a star in the league. He nearly initially didn’t get any Division 1 College offers. Another scouting report said he had limited upside and relied too heavily on his outside shot. Even after having one of theContinue reading “Jump into the Trough.”

Ask How?

It is really hard to change someone’s mind about anything. But, if you ask them to explain something to you, it might make them change their own mind.

Joe Rogan, Aristotle, and nuance.

Being confronted by views that challenge your belief you want to be open the merits of the other sides arguments.

Remember that nuance is hard, context matters when trying to understand something you don’t agree with.

Enter into the conversation trying to learn, not trying to win.

Shoot More Shots

The challenge of improvement isn’t accomplished in one moment. It is accomplished by thousands of small moment’s, some of them, failures.

Don’t overcorrect

Over-correcting from a mistake doesn’t put you back on your path, it just takes you to the other side of the path.