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Diego Perez is a New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 2.7 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His two books, Inward and Clarity & Connection were both instant bestsellers. Diego's third book, Lighter, debuted as a #1 New York Times best seller.

Notes:

• Using a pseudonym - Yung Pueblo means “Young People.” The pseudonym reflects a social commentary that points to humanity’s coming growth and maturation. The name signals a time when we will collectively transition from being ruled by shortsightedness and self-centeredness to having an elevated appreciation of our interconnectedness, which normalizes treating each other with a new and considerate gentleness.
• Immigrants – Diego to the United States when he was 4 from Ecuador. His parents' bravery, how much they had to sacrifice, and how hard they worked to give him, his brother, and his little sister a better life in the United States. His mom cleaned houses and his dad worked at a supermarket.
  • “For the first decade and a half, we felt the intense pressure of poverty.”
• "I am less interested in debating and more interested in considering a topic collectively. Let’s peacefully share what we know with each other. When we arrive at diverging points of view, let’s focus on questions. How did you arrive to this point? Help me understand what you mean."
• "Saying less is incredibly helpful. Every thought is not valuable. Every feeling does not need to be voiced. What is often best is slowing down to spend time developing a clearer and more informed perspective. Ego rushes and reacts, but peace moves intentionally and gently."
• "You know you have matured deeply when you encounter someone’s rough emotions and instead of letting their volatility consume you, you mentally affirm within yourself “I am not going to join them in their turbulence.”
• "Find a partner who increases your power instead of diminishing it. Complimenting each other’s qualities in a way where you make each other shine brighter is an immense gift. You not only lend your strengths to each other, you also keep the spark alive that inspires evolution."
• Great friends appreciate you and are not afraid of your growth. It’s easy to be around them. You root hard for each other to do well and show support when it’s not.
• Create a reflection process for yourself. Write down what you’re grateful for… And reflect on the fact that everything is always changing.
• Reserve judgment. Don’t be so quick to make up your mind about something. Instead of judging something or someone, approach them with curiosity and a sense of wonder.

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Jeff Shesol is a multi-hyphenate leader. He’s a Rhodes Scholar, a historian, a presidential speech writer, and a 3-time best-selling author. He also had a comic strip called thatch that was nationally syndicated from 1994–1998 when it appeared daily in more than 150 newspapers.

Notes:

• If you’re going to set moonshot goals for your team, you must relentlessly communicate them to all involved. The what, why, how, and when… Relentlessly communicate with vivid clarity.
• Focus, Purpose, Urgency… This was what was lacking before President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson helped take fragmented groups and bring them all together. Focus, Purpose, and Urgency. How can you do this for your organization?
• John Glenn – A leader of action. He didn’t let fate determine the outcome of his life. He went after what he wanted. He had a bias for action. In a world of drivers and passengers, John Glenn was a driver and that’s what led to him leaving his mark in the world.
  • John Glenn – “Friendship 7—designed to fly itself—had begun drifting to the right, like a car with its front wheels out of alignment. Glenn took the control stick—not without satisfaction. He was a pilot, by training and temperament, and pilots take control.”
• Press conference to introduce astronauts… John Glenn said, “I was brought up believing that you are placed on earth… with sort of a fifty-fifty proposition. We are placed here with certain talents and capabilities. It is up to each one of us to use those talents and capabilities as best as we can. A higher power will certainly see that I am taken care of if I do my part of the bargain.”
• The space program may be the profession that requires the highest risk tolerance aside from the military. It is no surprise the original 7 astronauts were all test pilots. The Flight Director of the Apollo missions, Chris Kraft, is quoted as saying: “if we thought about odds, we wouldn’t do it (launch man into space)."
  • Bob Gilruth, head of NASA, also said: “we don’t have enough chimpanzees” responding to criticism that not enough test launches were done.
• JFK, despite his outward speeches, was initially reluctant to go to the moon and was skeptical if it was a waste of time and money.
• Publishing your work can change your life... In 1997, President Bill Clinton read Mutual Contempt and invited Shesol to become one of his speechwriters. During his three years at the White House, Shesol became the deputy chief speechwriter and a member of the senior staff.
• Sustaining Excellence:
  • Need to evolve, and be open to change.
  • Musicians take risks with new albums. Be willing to take those risks as a leader.
  • Continue to challenge yourself.
• Keynote speeches:
  • Do not ever let them get stale... But have one fundamental core message. Dr. Martin Luther King had a core theme of every speech.
• Life and Career advice:
  • "In your 20's, figure out where you can make your great contribution."
  • Trial and error is good.
  • What energizes you the most?

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• The Hard Makes It Good - A league of their own — Tom Hanks — when Geena Davis (Dottie Henson quit saying it just got too hard). “ “Of course it’s hard. If it wasn’t everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
• Writing - A writing life may seem to lie somewhere on the other side of the moon from a life in athletics, but the two are scary similar in the things that they require. They’re both ridiculously hard, even if they sometimes look easy. And the reward for either isn’t what you get at the end, it’s what you go through to get there. The process in both is the prize.
• Great teachers — "Great teachers crack open a door and cue the siren’s song that lures you in. Once inside, they give you hard. And then they let you decide what to do about it. I live indebted to them for the view.”
• The art of asking — Dr. Darryl Tippens — a Shakspere class... “I admired all he knew, but I admired what he did with it even more.”
  • “His questioning and blatant unwillingness to give us the answers made us work for our conclusions. The process and the product stayed with us. We learned that what we strain for, sticks.”
• The job — “if a leader’s primary job is to be a dealer of hope, Whitney Hand was a leader of rare air.”
• It's not about the trophy - After winning the state championship, on the bus ride home with the team, Sherri noticed that she had left the trophy behind accidentally. And she said,“it so had never been about what you get in the end.”
• Confidence is self-governed. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it away. I’ve found that regularly doing hard things helps me earn more confidence.
• The makeup of a great point guard:
  • An outward perspective. They care more about setting their teammates up than themselves.
  • A capacity for understanding what each person needs.
  • Athletic eyes - They have a broad spectrum. They see things before they happen.
  • Sturdy, innate confidence.
• Sherri's Grandma:
  • She was very observant. She spoke with purpose. No wasted words. "She taught me how to be observant and listen."
• "Coaches are great tellers. They aren't always great listeners. Questions are so much better than statements."
  • Great mentors don't give you the answer. They teach you how to think. They teach you how to figure it out on your own.
• What makes up a great player (beyond the skill to score a basketball)?
  • The intangibles:
    • They build relationships
    • They're observant
    • They pay attention
    • They are intentional about how they "do life"
• What do you value most?
  • "Curiosity."
• "You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time."
• Advice: What makes your heart sing?
  • Work to figure that out. What is that thing in you?

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VItaliy Katsenelson was born in Murmansk, USSR, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1991. After joining Denver-based value investment firm IMA in 1997, Vitaliy became Chief Investment Officer in 2007, and CEO in 2012. Vitaliy has written two books on investing and is an award-winning writer. Known for his uncommon common sense, Forbes Magazine called him “The New Benjamin Graham.”

• “I guess I was born in Russia but made for America."
• The two ways to look at life.
  • Like an airport… Where you rush to get through it.
  • Or an art museum. Where you take time to enjoy your surroundings. I think we should treat more days like they’re an art museum.
• “When you love what you do, your work stops being work and becomes a craft. And no matter what it is, you do it with pride, love, and care.”
• "In our relationships, we should set a goal, not for someone to love us, but to behave according to our values (to be worth loving) and to be a good, caring partner. We cannot control whether people will love us, but we can control our actions and our behavior."
• "I'm perpetually in beta. This in beta attitude is liberating, as it gives you the chance to constantly improve yourself; to learn and grow. This doesn't mean you need to be buried in self-help books. You just need to have this in beta attitude."
• "The best way to guard ourselves against our ego is by thinking of ourselves as evergreen students."
• Albert Einstein said, "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." We should welcome the circumference of darkness wholeheartedly.
• How Zeno, the founder of Stoicism approached his students: "He did not claim to be a physician-- he saw himself as a patient describing the progress of his treatment to fellow patients in the hospital beds beside him."
• When Vitaliy's mother died (he was young), it made him appreciate his dad much more. I think we’d all be better off if we made the most of the time we have with the people we love and never take them for granted.
• What Vitaliy learned from Warren Buffett? He was not a present dad. It's important to be in your kids lives. It's a gift to get to drive your kids to school.
• Sit side by side with your children and talk (car rides, sit at the bar at restaurants, go on walks)
• Vitaliy plays chess and he loses a lot... "Losing is part of tuition."
• Seneca said, "Time discovers truth."
• Attention is the currency of time.
• "Writing is the most important thing that happened to me." Spend two hours a day organizing your thoughts. Writing helps you do that...
  • "Create a connection between the unconscious and conscious mind."