Category Archives: Weekly Learnings
Weekly Learnings Week 46
Quote of the week I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan Weekly thoughts We often experience painful events in our lifes, but some are more painful …
Weekly Learnings Week 44
Quote of the week At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: „I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I‘m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? …
Weekly Learnings Week 42
Quote(s) of the week Do your reps. – Arnold Schwarzenegger Do your scales. – Anne Lamotte Thoughts of the week This week I thought a lot about the quotes above. I think they have a lot to do with progress and success in life. We all have our routines and our process of the things …
Weekly Learnings Week 41
Before starting this weeks thoughts, I want to encourage you to check out my other post this week on The tyranny of metrics. It‘s a really intersting story about the biggest mistake of a legendary football manager Sir Alex Ferguson and what we can learn from it. Quote of the week It is not that …
Weekly Learnings Week 40
Quote of the week That which isn‘t good for the hive, isn‘t good for the bee. – Marcus Aurelius Weekly thoughts This week I was listening to a podcast about nationalism (Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism). One of the most interesting arguments was the following one: Nationalism per se is not a bad …
Weekly Learnings Week 38
Quote of the week You learn the most when it is thoughest. – Clemens Bleimschein What I learned this week I want to start with some personal thoughts again this week. A few weeks ago I linked a piece from Morgan Housel, where he writes as one of his biggest learnings in his life: „Everyone belongs …
Weekly Learnings Week 37
Quote of the week It‘s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain it‘s own until the very end. For such a soul will never be at rest – by longing for things to come it will …
Weekly Learnings Week 36
Quote of the week I believe that what people believe to be true is what they act out, not what they say. -J. Peterson What I learned this week Identity drives our purchases Last week I stumbled across 2 interesting articles about our spending behavior (linked below). The concept is really interesting and requires critical …
Weekly Learnings Week 35
Quote of the week “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius What I learned this week Last month I finished 2 books: Churchill’s Ministry Of Ungentmanly Warefare …