Back at the gym. Wrapping up a productive day. I spent half the day studying psychology, and I’d like to sum up what I listened to today with this phrase about blocking neural resources and attention:
“There is no way to respond to reality without losing the ability to control it.”
Time and attention are limited. Every second you spend reacting in any way—feeling happy, sad, worried, indignant—is a second you could have spent doing something about it.
A shift in perspective: the art of solving problems in life isn’t about cutting off the hydra’s heads; it’s about finding where its heart is and piercing it.
And, by the way, this applies not only to psychology, but to business too.
The other day I was reading my friend Alexey Fedorov’s blog. He recently did a sponsored integration with Ksenia Sobchak. Lyosha, the owner of one of my favorite Russian brands, Magssory, and I first met about eight years ago, I think. He was one of my clients. Now we’re both members of the same private club for entrepreneurs and investors.
I liked the idea that what’s the point of being in business if you don’t aim to build a global company and go public? To build a global brand that will live for decades. And where should you build such a company—in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, or maybe the UAE?
My friend Roman Khoroshev has already successfully taken a company public and completed a solid pre-IPO with JetLend. Before 2022, there would, of course, have been plenty of demand for that on the local market… My acquaintance Semyon Tenyaev was also thinking about taking TenChat public.
Because, in fact, all the limitations in business exist only in your head. Recently, I read Brianna Wiest’s book “The Mountain Is You.” I liked one line: “Nothing holds you back in life more than you do.”
The right, supportive people around you and good ideas can shorten the path to results several times over. After all, the main goal of science, technology, and any business is for a company to outlive its founder and make a difference in users’ everyday lives -_-
“There is no way to respond to reality without losing the ability to control it.”
Time and attention are limited. Every second you spend reacting in any way—feeling happy, sad, worried, indignant—is a second you could have spent doing something about it.
A shift in perspective: the art of solving problems in life isn’t about cutting off the hydra’s heads; it’s about finding where its heart is and piercing it.
And, by the way, this applies not only to psychology, but to business too.
The other day I was reading my friend Alexey Fedorov’s blog. He recently did a sponsored integration with Ksenia Sobchak. Lyosha, the owner of one of my favorite Russian brands, Magssory, and I first met about eight years ago, I think. He was one of my clients. Now we’re both members of the same private club for entrepreneurs and investors.
I liked the idea that what’s the point of being in business if you don’t aim to build a global company and go public? To build a global brand that will live for decades. And where should you build such a company—in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, or maybe the UAE?
My friend Roman Khoroshev has already successfully taken a company public and completed a solid pre-IPO with JetLend. Before 2022, there would, of course, have been plenty of demand for that on the local market… My acquaintance Semyon Tenyaev was also thinking about taking TenChat public.
Because, in fact, all the limitations in business exist only in your head. Recently, I read Brianna Wiest’s book “The Mountain Is You.” I liked one line: “Nothing holds you back in life more than you do.”
The right, supportive people around you and good ideas can shorten the path to results several times over. After all, the main goal of science, technology, and any business is for a company to outlive its founder and make a difference in users’ everyday lives -_-
