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Happy Thursday folks!

Here is my favorite passage of the week, two quotes and book of the week with two important lessons to ponder on:

Author Mark Manson on how to be happy:

The book of the week is Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish.

This book will help you discover how to overcome your conscious reaction and make significantly better/smarter decisions.

The overarching message of the book is that our defaults encourage us to react without reasoning, to live unconsciously rather than deliberately. Overriding our defaults requires implementing safeguards that render the invisible visible and that prevent us from acting too soon. It requires cultivating habits of mind (accountability, knowledge, discipline, and confidence) which will put you on the right track and keep you there.

Clear Thinking is a critical skill we have never been taught. Until now. It is a hard skill to acquire but one worth cultivating. And this book will revolutionize your approach to thinking and doing. A practical guide to mastering clear thinking that assures you progress in both your career and personal life. Well written, clear and engaging.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

In order to be right, you must be willing to change your mind. If you're not willing to change your mind, you're going to be wrong a lot. The people who frequently find themselves on the wrong side of right are people who can't zoom in and out and see the problem from multiple angles. They get locked into one perspective: their own. When you can't see a problem from multiple points of view, you have blind spots. And blind spots get you in trouble.

Admitting you're wrong isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. Admitting that someone has a better explanation than you, shows that you're adaptable. Facing reality takes courage. It takes courage to revise your ideas, or rethink something you thought you knew. It takes courage to tell yourself something is not working. It takes courage to accept feedback that bruises your self-image.

The challenge of facing reality is ultimately the challenge of facing ourselves. We must acknowledge the things we cannot control and focus our efforts to manage the things we can. Facing reality demands acknowledging our mistakes and failures, learning from them, and moving forward.

Self-confidence is the strength to focus on what’s right instead of who’s right. It’s the strength to face reality. It’s the strength to admit mistakes, and the strength to change your mind. Self-confidence is what it takes to be on the right side of right. Outcome over ego.

Facing reality is hard. It's much easier to blame things we have no control over than look for our own contributions. Too often we fight against the feedback the world gives us, to protect our beliefs. Rather than changing ourselves, we want the world to change. And if we don't have the power to change it, we do the only thing we feel we can do: complain.

Complaining isn't productive. It only misleads you into thinking that the world should function in a way that it doesn't. Distancing yourself from reality makes it harder to solve the problems you face. There is always something you can do today to make the future easier, though, and the moment you stop complaining is the moment you start finding it.

Self-accountability is the strength of realizing that even though you don’t control everything, you do control how you respond to everything. It’s a mindset that empowers you to act and not just react to whatever life throws at you. It transforms obstacles into opportunities for learning and growth.

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. An intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. Highly original, immersive storylines and characters. Almost done, wonderful read.

How to Not Know by Simone Stolzoff. A guide to dealing with uncertainty at a time when our lives have never felt less certain.