"Share Something Great"

Develop your personal philosophy. Make it worthy of whom you wish to become.

I know a physician's assistant who asks everyone for one piece of advice. I told him, "share something great."

Nobody has time to read every recommended book, but find time to read summaries and selected books.

Here's a summary of Naval Ravikant's, "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" from a free site informing book summaries. 

The Five Big Ideas

1. Understand how to create wealth
2. Build judgment
3. Learn the skills of decision making
4. Learn to love to read
5. Understand happiness is a choice

Wealth is not the same as money. Family, meaning, and friendship are wealth. Wealth comes from 'compounding' knowledge and good, ethical decisions. Consider reading Darren Hardy's The Compound Effect. Here's a summary. 

"Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment." Or experience comes from making choices where you didn't get what you wanted. Before making big decisions, ask "what if" and "what can go wrong?" You become a blend of the people with whom you associate. Surround yourself with great people. Find mentors. 

Often the most important decision we make is whether we invest our time or spend it. James Clear's Atomic Habits points out to align our habits with the person we want to become. To become a better athlete or volleyball player, train. Higher level decision-making benefits from higher level thinking. Learn to use mental models. Higher order thinking requires more study such as Ed Smith's Making Decisions. 

"Read. Read. Read. Read. Read." Reading an hour a day will vault you into elite status of readers. Twenty-five percent of Americans never read. Matt Haig reminds us that every book is about "someone searching for something." Leaders are readers. Up your metaphorical game by reading. 

We own our happiness. Don't give others permission to define you. Shawn Achor's book, The Happiness Advantage reminds us that we own our happiness.

MVB provides structure and culture that can help you build a system designed to craft success. Develop better habits, leadership, teamwork, and motivation and get on the right side of success. 

Lagniappe. The four legs of the success chair are 1) skill, 2) strategy, 3) physicality, and 4) psychology. There's no Athleticism Fairy Godmother. Do the work. 

"But I don't know how." Here are a couple of lessons.