The Account Nobody Sends You a Statement For
You do not lack information. You are carrying, in your pocket, right now, access to more practical knowledge than every king who ever lived combined. You…
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Whose approval have you been living for?
The only opinion you were ever accountable to belongs to God. Everything else is an audition, and auditions do not end. This is the ground the rest of it stands on, and it shows up in how a man prices, how he leads, and how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
The Sequence Is Backward
There is a diagram you have seen. Three circles. What you love. What you are good at. What people will pay for. Find the middle, get…
Deep Work in a House With Children In It
Most productivity advice is written for people who live alone. Four hours of uninterrupted focus in a silent room is a wonderful concept. It is also…
The Stage Nobody Survives
Say you get through the first part. Somebody paid you. Then somebody else did. Money is coming in irregularly and you are thrilled and terrified in…
Made in Order to Make
Everything you build with your hands has an expiration date and most of them expire sooner than you think. The company gets sold, or absorbed, or…
You Were Not Made to Be Manageable
There was a man at the airport named Dale who ran the fuel farm. Dale knew more about that operation than anybody who has ever worked…
Whose approval have you been living for?
Every man is running an audition. Most of them do not know the name of the judge. He performs competence at work, steadiness at home, and…
The Competence Gap Is Real
Now I want to be considerably more specific, because there is a version of that argument that becomes an excuse, and I have watched men use…
Managed Men
Nobody is going to hand you room. I want to say that plainly and then spend a chapter on why, because most men are operating on…
The Conversation That Breaks the Wall
You wrote it down. It went in the column marked real, the one I told you not to touch yet. Two, maybe three items, and you…
Unmanageable Is Not Ungoverned
This is the piece that decides what the last twenty-one did to you. Because there are two men who finish a book like this, and from…
You cannot transform what you are afraid to challenge
Most men are running on labels somebody else assigned them. A title from a job. A role from a family. A reputation from a version of…