"Notes" of An Elder

Every failure brings us closer to success as long as we learn. It's only a failure when we fail to rise again after a fall.

January 22, 2021

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"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.

  • Turn your world into a classroom for learning.

  • Be ready when "change" shows up.

  • To change what people think, sometimes you have to change how people think.

  • If you speak the truth, never worry about being wrong.

  • Success has as much to do with confidence as it does competence.

  • The future is not about education. It's about learning.

  • Eating alone is a missed opportunity to connect and learn.

  • Make yourself easy to know.

  • The fullest lives are lived by those not afraid of complication, mistakes and imperfection.

We Are Responsible

  • To see and do.

  • To live and thrive.

  • To behave and go.

  • To love and unite.

  • To say and choose.

  • To learn and become.

  • Your impact on the world is almost entirely dependent on the number of people who believe in you as a leader.

  • The only person standing in your way is you.

  • Make every encounter about them, not you.

  • Respect the data but love imagination more.

  • Every failure brings us closer to success as long as we learn. It's only a failure when we fail to rise again after a fall.

  • Lack of curiosity will limit your growth.

  • If you want to stay relevant, reinvention is a continual act.

  • Embrace work as a kind of insurrection.

  • Growth depends on how adaptable we are.

Magic Question

What’s next?

P.S. Searching for a book recommendation? Our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change by Frank Sesno. What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life--across cultures, industries, generations . . . all of time? The answer is surprisingly simple: they know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. Emmy award–winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno wants to teach us how to question others in a methodical, intentional way so that we can find the same success that others have found by mastering this skill.

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