High-Performance Lifestyle
What follows is a letter from Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Within the letter contains the keys to Google’s success as a technology company: an unrelenting focus on its organizational culture.
Although Google will forever be known for superior internet search technology, its capabilities come from its people. And the focus on its people will keep it at the forefront of technological innovation.
There is an illusion of choice in today’s society.
We think we have many choices, but the variety of options only leaves us less fulfilled. We think we can be high-performers and have robust social lives. We want to be rich and travel. We aim for the rewards but rarely do we strip away the choices that will lead us to the pinnacle.
If you want to be uncommon, you must settle for less. Less choices and options. More of the same mundane things that ultimately lead to greatness.
We call it character and it comes from discipline. [Read more…]
Life is about constant motion.
It’s ever changing, fluid, unmolded, and always evolving.
Those that stagnate, are still moving. Just backwards, further away from what they desire.
Life is in constant motion, never still.
You are either moving towards or away from your goals, but you are never the same. – Chief
It could also be the best damn memoir I’ve ever read.
I started reading Shoe Dog by Phil Knight during a three-day excursion to Puerto Rico.
My mind was full of dancing clubs, drinks on the beach, scuba in the sun, and girls on the run.
Instead, I was getting a first-rate business education with a dose of the real world from the founding father of Nike.
The billion-dollar company Nike. The company that sponsors all of the best athletes in professional sports.
Although he writes passively, like an average person. Although he speaks of himself as a shy guy. He is, without doubt, a titan. A business “tycoon,” which he tells us, comes from the Japanese word for Warlord.
Perhaps he is a business warlord. Defining and redefining the idea of an athletic shoe — rising to victory among giants of the industry.
If you watch the show Shark Tank, then you know Mark Cuban as a tough, self-made billionaire. He is the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a business mastermind that uses his experience as an entrepreneur to invest in the up and coming.
Cuban has a rich history as a business tycoon. With no technical background, he started by building a small technology startup. He found success by outhustling his competitors.
He remained vigilant by attacking the edges: he read for hours a day, even going through the manuals each of his products.
After seven years of on the grind, he sold MicroSolutions and took with him invaluable insights that he would later use to propel himself to the top of the business world. [Read more…]
