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How to give the best gifts to your past, present and future selves. theknowledge.io/issue45/

Hope is something we teach children from a young age, and it manifests itself in confidence and audacity. theknowledge.io/issue26/

"Our big job is to hasten obsolescence. In 1934 the average car ownership span was 5 years. Now [1955] it is 2 years. When it is one year, we will have a perfect score." - Harley Earl, head of design GM theknowledge.io/issue46/

Grizzly bears are dangerous, but also lazy, and the way they play makes them live longer. There's a lot we can learn from them. theknowledge.io/issue32/

A conversation with students on my course moved me to draft notes in my journal one morning, and 7 pages of notes turned into a +3000 word essay. I hope you’ll come and take a look at the newsletter entitled "A moment of honesty ⏱️" and sign up. theknowledge.io/issue51/

Pattern-matching and robust thinking are more important than tactics and abstraction. theknowledge.io/issue43/

Our stories, like our legends, are seldom clean-cut. Often we're defined by tiny slices of history that are pulled together in retrospect to form a coherent narrative. theknowledge.io/issue34/

If nobody has told you this already, well done. I won't go as far as to say congratulations, but seriously, give yourself a pat on the back. I’ve just posted a "Well done" newsletter, and I think it’s the best one yet. Check it out! theknowledge.io/issue53/

On some level, everything in life is a game. That doesn't mean all games are trivial. It does mean you should look for ways to level up, ways to collaborate, ways to win, and ways to ensure you can live to play another day. theknowledge.io/issue49/

What we think is average is very rarely so. There is a huge divide between what we may know in our head to be true and what we feel in our bones. theknowledge.io/issue44/

I'd never spent so much time with a dog, and probably loved her more than she loved me. But since returning to the UK I knew that one day I'd want one of my own. theknowledge.io/issue36/

The most important step is the first one - it needn’t be a large step but if you don’t take it, you won’t move. Taking that first step requires two things: discipline, and anticipation. theknowledge.io/14-dig-your-we…

"No one enjoys being wrong, but I do enjoy having been wrong because it means I am now less wrong than I was before." - Daniel Kahneman theknowledge.io/issue35/

Another time we can have a deep conversation about the issues with environments that necessitate such labor, but for now, I just want to talk about being yourself and performing when it counts. theknowledge.io/issue31/

As a leader, you are expected to exercise sound judgment. You are not expected to always be correct. It's equally important at times to defer to the minds you've chosen to surround yourself with. theknowledge.io/issue38/

Take control of what’s within your reach and learn to let go of what isn’t. You can’t plan for luck but you can create room for serendipity. You don’t know when a market may crash but you can diversify to mitigate loss. theknowledge.io/isssue37/

“If you take one thing away from this book, I hope you will remember this: whatever decision or challenge or crossroads you face in your life, simply ask yourself, ‘What is essential?’ Eliminate everything else.” -Greg Mckeown theknowledge.io/issue15/

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” —Dumbledore theknowledge.io/issue24/

We work less hours each day than any humans that have ever lived and yet we are obsessed with finding solace in tomorrow, and making choices today that might reflect a better future. theknowledge.io/issue17/

“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.” -Erich Fromm theknowledge.io/issue28/