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“I think it's on us to try to teach kids what excellence looks like and feels like,” –@kobebryant. Adults should give youth the tools to help them chase their dreams and "along the process they will learn what excellence looks like." https://t.co/rzOFhdkuJS #ProjectPlay pic.twitter.com/VD2clEahbi

— Aspen Inst Sports (@AspenInstSports) October 16, 2018

“Imagination is key. You have to be able to envision and dream it first. –@kobebryant on the role imagination plays in sport and kids staying in the game.
Watch live: https://t.co/RVZYmPjtoG #ProjectPlay pic.twitter.com/9Z5qefAYcx

— The Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) October 16, 2018

“That’s as good as I am in that moment and then I get to challenge it. Then I get to see, alright what else are you made of here?” Deena Kastor

This Olympian’s running career was completely changed thanks to one simple tweak pic.twitter.com/vP5FRaS5VB

— Women's Health (@WomensHealthMag) September 12, 2018

Just downloaded, ‘Life As Sport’, by Dr. Fader on Audible.com.

A slump is a ‘statistically acceptable aberration’ pic.twitter.com/yUHt0YVGOf

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) September 13, 2018

Charles Minard’s graph follows Napolean’s Grande Armee thru it’s march to (tan color) and back from (black color) Moscow. Napoleon who understood the ‘friction of war’ started the campaign with approximately 600,000 soldiers. The black line shows the severity of the forced retreat with 20,000 some of his initial 600,000 troops eventually making it back to France.

Which brings me back to thinking about General Lee at Gettysburg, with his Calvary commander Jeb Stewart’s location unknown, all culminating in Pickett’s Charge.

Graph source: Wikipedia

"Masculinity is about power. It is about the projection of power and the projection of strength. That projection is false, and it is killing us."

– @michaelianblack, during the #MIGlobal discussion on "How to Be a Man in 2018." #Equality https://t.co/hHBCcjSIL9 pic.twitter.com/oAItRiJ1LS

— Milken Institute (@MilkenInstitute) August 16, 2018

“It was in our strategical thinking, in the strategy of peace, that we made our mistakes. It was because our strategy was wrong that our tactics, whatever they were—and they were various—never worked out. And if now we do not develop a grand strategy of peace, we shall be wrong again—and we shall have another war.”

Richard Law, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, March 1942

KCL Grand Strategy @KCL_CGS Apr 12

Introducing our #SecurityExperts: @JohnBew on #GrandStrategy. Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/D3FxZH3m5s.@KCL_CGS @DefenceResearch @warstudies @KingsCollegeLon pic.twitter.com/UN3Ie2bOWj

— Security Studies (@KCLSecurity) December 15, 2017

Mr. Horowitz’s book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, is available on Audible.com. Within this book are battlefield lessons on managing an organization during extremely turbulent market conditions.

“There’s another side of pain. It’s called effort. It’s called glory. It’s called if you can find a way to push through pain there’s something greater on the other side of it. And if you never tap into it, it’s because the first time you felt it you backed off.”

Minute 6:44

.@salesforce’s @tony_prophet makes the case that businesses benefit when their employees can be themselves at work.#MIGlobal #Equality pic.twitter.com/wavtG7Fg97

— Milken Institute (@MilkenInstitute) August 13, 2018

Here's how this CEO worked her way to the top — despite not having a plan after college: https://t.co/v4ct0CDP2Y pic.twitter.com/Fg9vRDhowV

— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) August 16, 2018

1. Have a great support team.
2. Have a malleable business plan.
3. Focus on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
4. Have fun with your BHAG (Big Harry Audacious Goal).

NFL Players get paid their salaries over 17 weeks of the year. They need to make sure to budget for their off season living expenses.

Why a star linebacker took his high school car with him to the NFL: https://t.co/4ecvFt7Hdk pic.twitter.com/ULq2rR2fCd

— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) August 8, 2018

“You have to forget about everything else. Like I said, have that animalistic sort of approach…”

Positive thinking? ❌
Total numbness? ✅

This is @AntMiddleton's advice for @RossEdgley on #GreatBritishSwim.

Watch in full: https://t.co/L3Smz72Xd9 pic.twitter.com/Wf8e0jujlj

— Red Bull UK (@RedBullUK) August 3, 2018

The Great Depression: Causes & Responses

Causes:
1) Overspeculation of Stocks
2) Wage Stagnation
3) Gold Standard
4) Banking Practices

President Hoover’s Responses
1) Increased Tariffs (Smoot-Hawley)
2) “Liquidate Everything”

Outcome: WWII