"Notes" of An Elder

Don't become risk-averse. Risks are a necessary companion to opportunity.

December 11, 2020

Nothing in life is of any value unless it is shared with others.

"Notes" of An Elder is a depository of pertinent information, knowledge and wisdom. Available weekly will be an elder's "thinking menu" for your use. Enjoy this bounty.

  • "You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking." ― Lucille Clifton

  • Life is simple. We are the ones who make it so complicated.

  • Often times, it is best to replace words with silence.

  • Truth-telling can be a painful conversation.

  • Don't become risk-averse. Risks are a necessary companion to opportunity.

  • If your passion doesn't impact others, your influence will be short-lived.

  • Turn your next setback into your biggest comeback.

  • Don't read a book. Study a book.

  • All meetings must have listeners who are excited about learning.

  • You are one of God's representatives on this Earth.

4 Listening Organs

  1. Our ears

  2. Our eyes

  3. Our mind

  4. Our heart

  • "Most things that never get done never get done because they never get started." ― Jocko Willink

  • Change used to be slow and incremental. Now it is rapid, radical, and unpredictable.

  • The world we live in has become a vast "combat zone."

  • Trust is in crisis around the world.

  • Diversity of thought is a strategic imperative to building the future.

  • If you don't know, be honest and say, "I don't know."

  • Blame yourself or blame no one.

  • Spend as much time as possible with people. The best teachers may be the people around you.

  • We must continuously invest in ourselves to sustain our relevance.

  • Fight for the right to be YOU.

Magic Question

Is this the best I can do?

P.S. Searching for a book recommendation? Our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions.

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