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9 Lessons from 2021:
- The extremes are dangerous and they are not always the same as convictions.
- People are not as thoughtful as they should be when it comes to individual liberty, the price paid for it, and how easily it can be eroded or taken away by people in power or by people who say they have your best interest in mind.
- The extremes all like to claim that God is on their side. Proceed with caution.
- Great leadership and great management are not the same. They are both a necessity based on purpose and timing.
- James Bond is dead and that's tough for those of us that were raised on Bond.
- The vast majority of us unconsciously try to find our way back to the path of least resistance or the one that feels most familiar, comfortable, and safe; this is extremely detrimental to your growth, your excellence, and greatness, but it's a very hard natural tendency to break. The willingness to fight through complacency and mediocrity is oftentimes confessed with full intentions but rarely actually accompanied with follow through.
- The circle of trust is small, and it is not so much getting smaller as it is getting tighter. It's ironic that we are the most connected generation but we have the least amount of community and the least amount of trust.
- The only things I control are my thoughts, my words, my actions, and my emotions.
- Living as a fulcrum is not the easiest position or the most popular to choose, but it is a place where I can foster and create synergy. Synergy: the combined effect is better than the effect of the separate.
Reading Recommendations:
Can't Hurt Me, by David Goggins (warning! language and content)
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge
Countdown 1945, by Chris Wallace
Leading Change, by John Kotter
Good to Great, by Jim Collins (see also How the Mighty Fall)
Surfing the Edge of Chaos, by Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, and Linda Gioja
Specifically for high school and college grads:
Range, by David Epstein
Just Do Something, by Kevin DeYoung
Talent is Overrated, by Geoff Colvin
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven R. Covey
