Greetings everyone,
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
10,000 Shots
How to Save
Romantic Relationships in Early Adulthood
Enjoy!
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
—Naval Ravikant
✏️ 10,000 Shots
Success is achieved by the shot-takers. The intellectual and highly-educated, with their weighty degrees from their illustrious alma maters, are not always the people who generate world-changing ideas. The people who change the world are the people who take a thousand shots until one goes in. To put it in the words of Winston Churchill, “Success is the ability to from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
The individuals who find their individual-market fit in the world are the people who have mastered themselves. I don’t mean this in the self-control sense. They have learned about themselves — what they enjoy, what they are good at, how they communicate and lead — and doubled down on it. They’ve become the best version of themselves, and are conditioned to bet big on themselves. When they pursue a goal, that goal is inextricably linked with their passions and skills, such that when the failures come, the enthusiasm does not dwindle.
Taking more shots and betting on yourself are worthy, and arguably necessary, goals for everyone and anyone. Work is a matter of life and death — and as Pope John Paul II says, is an action involving “the whole person, body and spirit”. Making an optimal contribution in your work requires finding out how you can do so. Taking 10,000 shots will help you do that.
velle est posse
To be willing is to be able
💡 Food for Thought
You can't be what you can't see: expose yourself to new experiences and new role models.
🔗 Sunday Best
The Sequence of Savings
Personal Finance 101.
Saving and investing first is one of the most valuable habits you can build into your financial life that has an outsized impact on your financial well-being. It's like brushing your teeth or stretching your body every day. The return on those behaviors is much greater than the cost and effort of doing them.
The Challenge of Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood: Reconceptualization of the Field
Citation: Shulman, S., & Connolly, J. (2013). The Challenge of Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood: Reconceptualization of the Field. Emerging Adulthood, 1(1), 27-39.
Although theories of romantic stage development suggest that youth in the period of emerging adulthood are fully capable of commitment to an intimate romantic relationship, recent research suggests that the relationships of many young people are quite different. Marriage and other forms of deep commitment are delayed while many youth engage in short-term casual encounters or in noncommitted relationships. In this article, we suggest that these data pose a challenge to stage theories that can be reconciled by considering the developmental life tasks that emerging adults must simultaneously resolve. We propose a transitional emerging adult romantic stage, coordinating romance and life plans, in which young people strive to integrate their career paths and life plans with those of a romantic partner.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned through books.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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See you next week.
AT