"Notes" of An Elder

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.

• Enthusiasm will turn fatigued into energy and average into greatness.

• You indeed have to protect yourself from your friends more than your enemies. The more you do, the more your friends and enemies will say you haven't done. That's the law of life.

• “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” ― Andrew Carnegie

• To become great, a person must learn nothing is impossible.

• To know how little we know becomes a virtue only after we have tried to learn all we are capable of discovering.

• Mission: To be a productive disruptor.

• Don't borrow trouble imagining things are harder to bear than they actually are.

• You are not as wonderful as you think you are. Stay humbled on the journey.

• Don't be afraid to step out into the unknown. Innovation requires failure.

5 Things You Can Control

1. How you feel.

2. How you listen.

3. How you think.

4. How you behave.

5. How you treat people.

• Death is what gives life meaning.

• The inability to ask smart and timely questions has become a huge cultural weakness.

• Don't harm or hurt others so you can feel superior.

• Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.

• Life is not a problem to be solved. It's a process to be managed.

• Learn to enjoy your own company— occasionally welcome opportunities to be alone and with yourself.

• We can only understand where we are if we know how far we’ve come.

• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami

• Success is a constant battle against that wind blowing against you.

Magic Question

What areas of your life are you underperforming?