#50: what to do with your life
👋 Welcome to the 50th issue of Out of Curiosity, a weekly newsletter promoting ideas to help get 1% better everyday.
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This week is a meaty one (no pun intended). Let’s dive in!
In this issue:
😌 Becoming a more patient leader
📝 What to do with your life
📍 Location, Location, Location
🕰 Meditations on Time
🙌 On Competitive Advantage
😌 Becoming a more patient leader
Academic research traditionally breaks leadership down into two basic sets of behaviors – task-oriented and relationship-oriented. The best leaders consistently strike a balance between the two. I like to describe the most effective task-oriented behavior as futurist and the most effective relationship-oriented behavior as facilitator.
📝 What to do with your life
People fail to realize that career success isn't an end state.
Success is simply having the freedom to focus on the ongoing grind you actually enjoy.
📍 Location, Location, Location
The "idea" of permanent remote work is intoxicating. The ability to work from anywhere at anytime is certainly a plus. But we are social creatures who long to be part of a tribe, and if the pandemic showed us anything, it was just how important one's tribe really is.
As someone who’s been living a half-nomadic life over the last year or so, I deeply connected with this piece, especially as it relates to being part of a community, a tribe.
Huge s/o to my good friend, Ronen who shared this with me. And whom I actually met while I was nomading in Mexico City!I couldn’t help but draw parallels to What makes a good life 👇
🕰 Meditations on Time
It’s not about optimizing for every second of every day. It’s not about being as productive as I could possibly be. I still care deeply about performance, but there needs to be a balance. A Yin and Yang type situation.
Respect the time you have and treat it accordingly. Be grateful for it because it won’t always be there. But be at peace with the fact that it will pass, and you it won’t be perfect. Enjoy it.
🙌 On Competitive Advantage
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
Complexity and jargon are often used to mask a lack of deep understanding.
Learn to convey extremely complex ideas in simple, digestible ways.
Find beauty in simplicity.
✨ One last thing…
Remember when you wanted
what you currently have.
👋 Until next week,
Love this issue! So many great reads and insights. Appreciate your work Reza!