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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 and Journalist David Von Drehle on the idea of we’re always on our own:

The book of the week is How to Try Again: An Approachable Guide to Navigating Chaos and Making Change THAT STICKS by Steve Kamb.

A warm, witty rebuttal to toxic positivity and over-optimization. Like a pep talk from your best friend, it honestly tackles how hard change is and why setbacks don’t erase progress. Steve offers practical tools to reshape your stories, restore agency, and make trying again feel possible. It is funny (and wise at the same time) packed with humor, real stories and insights.

The foundational framework of the book is “The PACT Framework”. It is a four-step method to turn any failure into a data point for future success. Pause, Accept, Change and Try.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

“Be curious, not judgmental,” says the world’s most enthusiastic soccer coach, Ted Lasso (one of my all-time favorite sitcoms). He mentions how helpful this sentiment has been throughout his life, and how it allows him to outsmart judgmental adversaries who underestimate it. We can all learn from this lesson and apply nonjudgmental curiosity to our lives.

We can be curious as to why we responded in a certain way. We can curious about the series of events that led to the untimely demise of Past Us. We can be curious about why our brain decided to interrupt certain situations one way or another. Of course, there’s a big difference between knowing what needs to be changed and being able to change it, but nonjudgmental curiosity is an amazing step that can break past cycles. It gives us the best chance to do things differently next time. No matter what we failed at, there’s a bigger lesson we can take from it.

And when you pick up your next goal, think it more like an experiment. Because we approach the experiment with curiosity, understanding that any outcome is a success, because it gives us important information. And when we apply a “curious scientist” mindset to life moving forward, we’re moving from one experiment to the next without judgement.

Right now we might be motivated. But three weeks from now, life is going to get in the way, and motivation will abandon us when we need it most. Which is why we can spend a bit of time now coming up with a damn good reason why we’re trying to change. As personal trainer Andrew Coates says, “Every day you hit the gym when you don’t feel like it buys you a day off when you really need it.” This doesn’t just apply to going to the gym either, but for anything challenging worth doing.

The more we can remind ourselves that it feels good to have done hard things, particularly on days when we don’t feel like it, the better chance we have at sustainable progress. It can help teach us that we’re capable of following through even when our brains want us to say no. Having a deeper motivation behind our actions can help us not give up when things get tough.

Getting up early to go for a run in the dark sucks, but we know we’ll feel great after the fact, along with a sense of pride that we’re committing to our goals. Eating a healthy salad is less enjoyable in the moment that fast food, but we know we’ll feel better after the fact and proud that we made a choice in line with out longer-term goals. If we can attach a deeper purpose or more personal reason behind why we’re trying to change something in our lives, it can help get us through that lull a few weeks from now. Action creates motivation, which creates belief, which creates more action.

Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi. One of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.