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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:

Passage of the Week:

Author Mark Manson on the idea that happiness is derived from actively solving problems:

Two Quotes:

Book of the Week with 2 Important Lessons:

The book of the week is The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life by Sahil Bloom.

A profoundly powerful book that has the potential to transform your life entirely if you embrace it. It offers inspiring source of knowledge that will help you build a comprehensively fulfilling and happier life.

Measure, make decisions, and design your new life centered around the five types of wealth. Through powerful storytelling, science-backed practices, and actionable insights, this book will teach you about Time Wealth (how to prioritize energy-creating tasks to unlock more time in your day); Social Wealth (how to create deeper bonds and build a powerful network); Mental Wealth (how to engage your purpose to spark continuous growth); Physical Wealth (how to maximize health, fitness and vitality through three simple principles); Financial Wealth (how to achieve financial independence and define your version of “enough”).

This book is among of my favorite books of 2024 and it will help you thrive within and across the seasons of your life. More importantly, it also provides a guide to the high-leverage principles, ideas, systems, and frameworks that will enable you to progress toward your goals.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) The Surfer’s Mentality:

The surfers riding a wave fully enjoy the wave, with the wisdom and awareness that there are always more waves coming. They know they don’t have to ride every single wave that comes their way. They are aware that patience and proper positioning are all that matters for when the next wave inevitably comes. They know the only way to live is by putting themselves out there in the water, because they can’t catch any waves sitting on the shore.

You need to adopt the surfer’s mentality with respect to the seasons of your life. It will bring new peace, fulfillment and happiness. There will be seasons of growth and seasons of maintenance for each type of wealth. Enjoy each season for its individual beauty, position yourself for future seasons according to your values and goals, and always place yourself in the water.

2) Fortune Favors The Curious:

Curiosity is part of our manufacturer’s default setting. We are literally born with it. If you have children or have spent time around children you’ve seen firsthand what true, uninhibited curiosity looks like. Children pursue everything with a wide-eyed, completely unfiltered awe. The newness sparks a wonder about the world that seems impossible to contain. Curiosity is how we learn about the world and how we stay alive.

Furthermore, curiosity has been connected to higher levels of life satisfaction and positive emotions and lower levels of anxiety. Curiosity keeps us happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. It encourages us to search, explore, question and learn. It is through curiosity that we go on the journey to uncover and live by our purpose, unlock new insights and lifelong growth, and seek out the space necessary to think, reset, wrestle with questions, and recharge. When we pursue life with genuine, inspired, childlike curiosity, good things tend to happen, both personally and professionally.

Book I am currently reading:

Go One More: Find the Clarity to Make Intentional, Life-Changing Choices by Nick Bare. In this book, Nick shares a simple philosophy for helping people tap into the clarity and resolve they need to keep progressing: go one more. This action is applied to our lives and the outcomes we experience. Growth doesn't happen overnight; it's a choice. You must wake up every day and choose growth. These decisions compound over time, and with ruthless consistency, the outcomes are life-changing.