Author Kevin Kelly turned 70 and shared 103 bits of advice. I love reading his lists and thought I’d share a few that resonated.
• Don’t ever work for someone you don’t want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• When you forgive others, they may not notice, but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.
• When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.
• It is the duty of a student to get everything out of a teacher, and the duty of a teacher to get everything out of a student.
• Your growth as a conscious being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.
• Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
• The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally.
• You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.
• Spend as much time crafting the subject line of an email as the message itself because the subject line is often the only thing people read.
• What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.
• Take the stairs.
• Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they generally treat you best.
• Actual great opportunities do not have “Great Opportunities” in the subject line.
• Your group can achieve great things way beyond your means simply by showing people that they are appreciated.
• When negotiating, don’t aim for a bigger piece of the pie; aim to create a bigger pie.
• Rather than steering your life to avoid surprises, aim directly for them.
• Don’t purchase extra insurance if you are renting a car with a credit card.
