Quotes from the books I read

Time for few more quotes from the books I read. Mostly from Infinite games and Rising strong.

When we die nobody will be declared as winner.

In finite games there is a clear winner at the end of the duration based on metrics. In the infinite game, people drop out overtime but game lives on.

Finite leaders look at metrics, infinite leader looks at continued inspiration.

Finite games are seductive and addictive,  we must resist that urge.

Kodak is the first company to introduce stock dividend.

You can choose courage or comfort,  not both, not at the same time.

Lot of seats in the arena filled with critics never ventured on the floor. 

Knowledge is a rumor until it lives in the muscle memory.  - Indonesian Tribe

Humans are feeling machines, that can think.

You can change your life by charging thoughts, actions and feelings.

When we know better, we do better.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. 

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemies.

Broken hearted are the bravest among us, they dared to love.

Dependence starts when we are born and lasts until we die.

Stay in your own lane, comparison kills creativity and joy.

Love anything your heart will certainly be broken.

We will do anything to avoid lowest of the low, self examination. 

When you are hit With shame your brain does one of 3 things fight, flight, freeze.

You mess with the bull you get horns. But it should be, you mess with the bull , bull goes for 30 min timeout.

Genetics load the gun, environment pulls the trigger.

To avoid criticism say nothing,  do nothing, be nothing.

Before responding to the criticism,  check if they are on your list of most loved ones.

“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stays busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”