FVS 43: 12 Questions That Will Change Your Life
Here is your weekly For Value Sake, contributing value to your growth.
A weekly post, it contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk.
These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week, and share them so you can reap some value as I did.
A Quote Worth Thinking About
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
- Rachel Carson
+ Read past editions of For Value Sake: 42, 41, and All,
1. ARTICLES WORTH READING
personal development
I. 12 Questions That Will Change Your Life
+ “Who Do You Spend Time With?”
+ “Is This In My Control?”
+ “What Does Your Ideal Day Look Like?”
+ “What Does Your Ideal Day Look Like?”
+ “What Am I Missing By Choosing To Worry or Be Afraid?”
+ “Am I Doing My Job?”
+ “Does This Actually Matter?”
These questions might not change your life but it will cause you to be more aware.
Self-awareness is priceless.
It will keep you from going with the crowd or from reacting in situations where you should be proactive.
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wealth development
II. Get Control of Your Finances
Now about money…
Like my jambalaya will always say, we must have a system for wealth creation. In the spirit of encouraging us to do this again, this is a post that shows you a quick hack.
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relationship dev.
III. Your Self Esteem is not Your Partners Responsibility
+ “Sometimes we are insecure for literally no logical reason whatsoever”
+ “Sometimes we’re insecure simply because we haven’t done the work of developing solid self-esteem.”
+ “Sometimes we’re insecure simply because we haven’t done the work of developing solid self-esteem.”
+ “Secure people don’t need continuous input and reassurance. Their “love bank” is almost always full.”
Yea, totally. Even if you think you have the highest level of self-esteem ever, shit still happens sometimes so read this if you have a partner or will ever have one.
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entrepreneurship
IV. Why You Should Ignore Every Founder’s Story About How They Started Their Company
+”Company founding stories are almost always non-malicious lies”
+”No one writes about all the random tangents and mistakes”
Most time founders tell untrue founding narratives of how they started their company just to paint a story that the world can fall in love with.
So do not fall for most founder stories you hear.
I have multiple narratives of my founding story depending on who is asking, and most times some of them are not lies but lack the right context.
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parenting
V. I Raised Two CEOs and a Doctor. These Are My Secrets to Parenting Successful Children
So when a mother of these 3 women talks about parenting I think we should listen:
Janet Wojcicki, a professor at UCSF,
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, and
Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe(One of the biggest genetic testing companies, I think).
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2. VIDEO WORTH READING (a TED Table talk)
+ The Virginity of Fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann & Ellen Støkken Dahl
The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we’re told about female virginity and the hymen.
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3. WHAT IM READING
+ The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene
If you have read The 48 laws of power, The Art of Seduction or Mastery then you know Robert Greene is a genius when it comes to communicating deep ideas.
Now he turns to the most important subject of all — understanding people’s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.
We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people’s masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.
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