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Sunday Insider - Edition #76

Sunday Insider - Edition #76

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”

Mike Blankenship
November 10, 2024

The Daily Habit For Doers

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”

- Ruth Gordo

Here’s some stuff that inspired us this last week.

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Listen: Flops 007: The Rocket to Nowhere

Growing up, many of us are encouraged to follow our passion in the hopes of finding a career or life path that we will love. But what happens when passion isn't enough?

Sasha Korobov spent years working for NASA and left to move to England to get her masters degree. After the 2016 U.S. election, she was inspired to fight for causes bigger than herself, and after a late-night revelation, decided to build a business to help others do the same. She quickly built a business geared towards helping activists find and lobby for causes they were enthusiastic about.

But enthusiasm soon gave way to struggle.

This episode is full of struggle, reckoning, and undeniably great advice. Do yourself a favor and grab a pen and paper, because you're going to want to remember the secrets of the NASA nerds.

Listen Here.

Read: What Do You Look Like Angry? [Ryan Holiday]

Getting angry is not a good look. We know this because we see how ugly other people look when they get mad. How childish they seem. How pathetic their gesticulations look, how badly they seem to need our attention. We see how much it undermines their point too—we see their anger and think, “They are acting this way because it’s the only way they hope to win the argument.” We might even worry about someone’s health when we see their anger, fearing that they might have a heart attack.

Read Here.