Hey 👋🏽,

I’m taking the shortcut!

screamed 4.5yo, gleefully.

That’s not a short...

Too late. He was already preoccupied with the challenge of his chosen path.

The entrance to the dojo was 200ft to the left. He took a sharp right, speeding down stairs, across picnic tables, around strip mall flower beds and between bewildered adults.

I walked slowly, half looking at the hair salon on my left and poke bowl place on my right for the hundredth time.

Dramatic panting gave way to genuine heavy breathing as he boomeranged back towards the entrance to karate. His curls drooped slightly, wet from the focused exertion.

I told you it was a shortcut!

He screamed as he beat me to the glass door. He grinned widely, holding his arm out to hand me a marigold yellow flower.

The student creed hung behind him.

I intend to develop self discipline to bring out the best in myself and others.

We walked inside.

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Here are a few things I enjoyed this week:

🧠 the art of powerful questions University of Manitoba, 15m

Great questions have 3 dimensions:

The construction of a question
The scope of a question
The assumptions within questions

When you ask a question, what work do you want it to do?

+ Bruce Lee’s advice on getting promoted Radreads, 2m: be the best at the worst and do the verb before the noun by Khe Hy 🤘🏽

❤️ boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom Aeon, 5m

Boredom can be our way of telling ourselves that we are not spending our time as well as we could, that we should be doing something more enjoyable, more useful, or more fulfilling. From this point of view, boredom is an agent of change and progress, a driver of ambition, shepherding us out into larger, greener pastures.

🚶🏽‍♀️: take smarter notes Praxis, 25m

Tiago Forte recaps 10 principles from Sönke Ahrens book, written to help readers develop a second brain note taking system (inspired by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s slip-box):

#1: Writing is not the outcome of thinking; it is the medium in which thinking takes place
#8: Organize your notes by context, not by topic

I see you, I love you, let’s have a great week.

P.S. on my blog this week always moving forward: reaching for relentless growth 6m

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