4-Point Weekend #133

On specialness and failing

Hi everyone,

Please enjoy this week’s 4 points!

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• 1) Specialness

The great Sam Harris 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.

Source: Ryan Holiday

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• 2) Emotions

Emotions have had a bad reputation

Emotions contain information

Emotions assign values to things

Emotions also tell you whether you are moving toward your goals or away from them.

Source: How to Know a Person

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• 3) Learning to fail

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,” he replied.

I’ve talked to a couple professional basketball players, baseball players, and entrepreneurs, and 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.

Source: Ryan Holiday

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• 4) Quote of the week

“You must always be prepared to work without applause.”

-Ernest Hemmingway

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Thank you for your time and attention this week.

Much love,

Kyle