3 Ideas You Might Have Missed
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Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life.
Week At A Glance:
- Weekly Wisdom: Come Back To The Present
- Wednesday: It Was Just a Game of Catch
- Friday: Be a Ford, Then a Sloan
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
The older I get, the more I realize that anxiety comes from trying to live in two places at once. Replaying yesterday. Rehearsing tomorrow. All while trying to live right now. It's exhausting. Come back to the present. Handle the two feet right in front of you. You don't need to fix your whole life today. You need to take the next right step. Then another. That's the recipe.
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Wednesday: It Was Just a Game of Catch
Last weekend, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage to a small community in northwest Connecticut.
When I was 18 months old, my parents had rented a house there for the summer, seeking an escape from the New York City heat.
The next year, we went back. The following, we went again.
Soon, the tiny enclave became like a second home. I met my two best friends there. I caught my first fish there. I had my first crush there.
But perhaps most importantly, I played my first game of catch there.
My dad and I played catch damn near every single day when I was a kid.
But then, my baseball career ended. And with it, our game of catch.
On Wednesday, I shared what happened last Sunday when I unlocked one of the old cabinets, pulled out two gloves, and asked my dad if he wanted to step back in time.
We walked out onto the field and threw the ball back and forth. 30 years disappeared. He wasn't 70. I wasn't 35.
I was that little boy again. And he was my young dad.
It was just a game of catch. But it was so much more.
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Friday: Be a Ford, Then a Sloan
The engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall.
It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to realize, at 4am, that the door wasn't big enough for what he'd built.
His name was Henry Ford. His creation, the Ford Quadricycle.
His atomic insight was simple: He began viewing the factory itself as the product. While others obsessed over the car, he obsessed over the factory. By the early 1920s, Ford owned an extraordinary 60% of the U.S. automobile market.
But around 1921, the ground began to shift. And while Ford was destroying new prototypes and rejecting changes, Alfred Sloan was building General Motors with adaptation as its core principle.
Sloan had a different atomic insight: He began viewing the company itself as the product. Under Sloan's management, while Ford sputtered, GM's market share doubled, from around 10% at the start of the decade to around 20% by 1925.
The lesson isn't Don't be a Ford or Be a Sloan. Rather, it's Be a Ford, then a Sloan.
On Friday, I explored why the skill set that gets you to your first million isn't the same as the one that gets you from one to ten. And why, above all, adaptability is the key to life...
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