MINUTES of a MONDAY #84
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Brain Food > The Stockdale Paradox
“The Stockdale paradox is a signature of all those who create greatness, be it in leading their own lives or in leading others. Churchill had it during the Second World War. Admiral Stockdale, like Victor Frankl before him, lived it in a prison camp. And while the good-to-great companies cannot claim to have experienced either the grandeur of saving the free world, or the depth of personal experience of living in a POW camp, they all embraced the Stockdale Paradox.
It didn’t matter how bleak the situation or how stultifying their mediocrity, they all maintained unwavering faith that they would not just survive, but prevail [as a great company]. And yet, at the same time, they became relentlessly disciplined at confronting the most brutal facts of their current reality.”
Extract from Good to Great by Jim Collins
Soul Food >
“Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.”
LOL
Liam Gallagher on the importance of a dog’s name:
Appendix
"Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands. It’s the same reason people self-pity: to delay action, to make an outcry to the universe, as though the more they state how bad things are, the more likely it is that someone else will change them."
Brianna Wiest
A.O.B.
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Have a great Monday & mind how you go out there - Niall