Lucky seven: Weekly letter with five quotes and two doses of reflection.
Today, let's explore some quotes shared by Clayton M. Christensen.
- It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.
- In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy.
- Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
- In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.
- I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.
And two thoughts from my searches. Both positive, one funny, and one serious:
- I would love to close my eyes and watch every movie like he does.
- Living within walking distance of your close friends drastically improves your baseline quality of life.
