Smart entrepreneurs mitigate risk wherever possible to set up a low risk/high return situation. But mitigating risk is not the same as removing uncertainty.
Uncertainty means you don’t know exactly what will happen, mitigating risk is about protecting yourself from the downside.
But too many people confuse the two; they mistake uncertainty for risk and don’t take action.
The people who change the world don’t know exactly what will happen, but they lean into the uncertainty, certain that whatever happens they will handle it.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.