Questions

Question 1

What does failure show us?

Answer 1

Failure shows us the way by showing us what isn’t the way.

Question 2

What is the process?

Answer 2

Mammoth tasks becoming a series of component parts. Excellence is a matter of steps. The process is focusing and each component or step in the process to accomplish something. We start at A thinking about Z when it’s best to focus on A, then B, then C.

Question 3

What is the correct attitude for whatever task stands before you?

Answer 3

No job is beneath you. Respond with hard work and honesty

Question 4

Instead of worrying about pretty method we we should worry about what?

Answer 4

The results. Don’t worry about the “right” way worry about the right way.

Question 5

Think progress not what?

Answer 5

Perfection. Under this kind of force obstacles break apart. They have no choice.

Question 6

What strategic approach can I take when facing an obstacle that seems insurmountable by direct confrontation?

Answer 6

Consider a “flank attack” by creatively working around the obstacle, leveraging indirect or unconventional methods to achieve your goal.

Question 7

How can I turn the power of an obstacle against itself to overcome it?

Answer 7

Use their own force and momentum against them. How can you use the advantage into a disadvantage?

Question 8

Don’t act out.

Answer 8

Act

Question 9

How can we seize opportunities, even in crises?

Answer 9

By understanding that crisis provides opportunities to do things we couldn’t do before.

See Obama’s A More Perfect Union speech and what sparked that opportunity.

Question 10

Lady fortune has a habit of behaving just how she pleases, so what should we do?

Answer 10

Not give in to adversity and don’t trust prosperity. We must be willing to roll the dice and lose

Question 11

We can’t take the teeth out of the world. What should we do instead?

Answer 11

Toughen yourself up to prepare for the world.

Question 12

Fate can guide you if you do what?

Answer 12

Accept it. You will only be hindered of you resist objective truth.

Question 13

What does Amor Fati mean?

Answer 13

“Love of fate”. What it means for you is that something has happened, it’s an objective truth and cannot be reversed. What is the best course of action? Bitch and moan about it? No. Accept it and even better love that it happened. With this attitude, you’ll get the best results moving forward.

Question 14

The discipline of perception

Answer 14

You’ll come across obstacles in life, fair and unfair. And you’ll discover, time, and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are, but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. This reaction determines how successful we will be in overcoming or possibly thriving because of them.

Question 15

Recognize your power

Answer 15

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been. Marcus Aurelius.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, she simply chose to see each situation for what it could be— accompanied by hard work, and a little upbeat spirit. Others make the opposite choice. As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we’re screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles.

Just because you’re mine tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree.

Question 16

Steady your nerves

Answer 16

What such a man needs is not courage, but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice - Theodore Roosevelt

In these situations, talent is not the most sought after characteristic. Grace and poise are, because these two attributes proceed the opportunity to deploy any other skill we must possess, as Voltaire once explained about the secret to the great military success of the first Duke of Marlborough, that “tranquil courage in the midst of tumult and serenity of soul, in danger, which the English, call a cool head”

Because, as you know, realize, it’s true. If your nerve holds, then nothing really, really did “happen“ our perception made sure it was nothing of consequence.

Question 17

Control your emotions

Answer 17

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself - Publilius Syrus

Some of us almost crave sending the alarm, because it’s easier than dealing with whatever is staring us in the face.

Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.

As Gavin Decker writes in the gift of fear, “when you worry, ask yourself what am I choosing to not see right now? What important things are you missing because you choose to worry over introspection, alertness, or wisdom?“ another way of putting it: does getting upset provide you with more options? Sometimes it does, but in this instance? No, I suppose not.

Does what happened? Keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope.

Question 18

Practice objectivity

Answer 18

The phrase “this happened and it’s bad” is actually two impressions. The first “this happened “is objective. The 2nd “it is bad “is subjective.

How many problems seem to come from applying judgments to things we don’t control, as though there were a way there were supposed to be?

Perceptions are the problem. They give us the quote information “that we don’t need, exactly at the moment when it would be far better to focus on what is immediately in front of us.

Everything about our animalistic brains try to compress the space between impression and perception. Think, perceive, act with millisecond between them. A deer brain tells her to run because things are bad. It runs. Sometimes, right into traffic we can question that impulse. We can disagree with it. We can override the switch, examine the threat before we act.

Question 19

Alter your perspective

Answer 19

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the frequency change at any instant. – Viktor Frankl.

When you can break apart some thing, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.

The Greeks understood that we often choose the ominous explanation over the simple one, to our detriment. That we are scared of obstacles because the perspective is wrong – – that is simple shift in perspective can change our reaction entirely. The task, as Pericles showed, is not to ignore fear, but to explain it away. Take what you’re afraid of – – when fear strikes you – – and break it apart . Remember: we choose how we’ll look at things.

It’s your choice whether you want to put eye in front of some thing I hate public speaking. I screwed up. I am harmed by this. These add an extra element: you in relation to that obstacle, rather than just the obstacle itself and with the wrong perspective, we become consumed and overwhelmed with something actually quite small. So why subject ourselves to that?

Question 20

Is it up to you?

Answer 20

In life, our job is this, to divide distinguish things into two categories: external, I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices – Epictetus

The things that Tommy John could change, when he had a chance, got a full 100% of the effort he could muster.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.“

Question 21

Live in the present moment

Answer 21

The trick to getting the big picture is to look at everything close up – Chuck Palahnik

For the most part, these businesses had little awareness they were in some historical significant depression. Why? Because the founders are too busy existing in the present, actually dealing with the situation at hand. They didn’t know whether it would get better or worse, they just knew what was. They had a job they wanted to do, a great idea they believed in or a product they thought they could sell.

Not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead a business must take the operating constraints of the world around it as a given and work for whatever whatever gains are possible. Those people with an entrepreneurial spirit are like animals, blessed to have no time and nobility to think about the ways things should be, or how they prefer them to be For all species. Other than humans things are just what they are. Our problems is that we’re always trying to figure out what things mean, why things are the way they are. As though the why matters. Emerson put it: “we cannot spend the day in explanation“don’t waste time on false construct.

What matters is that right now is right now

remember that this moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it “represents “or “means” or “Wyatt happened to you. “

Question 22

Think differently

Answer 22

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s no other definition of it – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though, of course, we don’t control reality, our perceptions do influence it.