If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.orgGratitude and ambition aren’t opposites. They’re the only two things that keep each other from becoming dangerous. Ed Catmull spent twenty years trying to make a computer-animated film. He’d wanted it since he was a kid watching Disney movies in the 1950s, realized he couldn’t draw, and decided to find another way....

If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.orgGratitude and ambition aren’t opposites. They’re the only two things that keep each other from becoming dangerous. Ed Catmull spent twenty years trying to make a computer-animated film. He’d wanted it since he was a kid watching Disney movies in the 1950s, realized he couldn’t draw, and decided to find another way....

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThere's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. One creates results. The other prevents them. The achievement theater We've built elaborate systems to feel productive without being productive. Morning routines that...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThere's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. One creates results. The other prevents them. The achievement theater We've built elaborate systems to feel productive without being productive. Morning routines that...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThe most dangerous advice comes from people who survived something you've never experienced. Advice is just other people's trauma dressed up as wisdom. I spent years collecting other people's rules like they were universal laws. "Don't ...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThe most dangerous advice comes from people who survived something you've never experienced. Advice is just other people's trauma dressed up as wisdom. I spent years collecting other people's rules like they were universal laws. "Don't ...

You’re not risk-averse. You’re math-averse. The reason you haven’t started that business, published that work, or made that career move isn’t because you’re scared. It’s because you’re running the wrong calculation. Most people think about risk like accountants. They see a potential move - start a podcast, launch a product, quit their job - and immediately calculate what they could lose. Time. Money. Reputation. Stability. The numbers add up to “too risky.” So they don’t move. They stay in jo...

You’re not risk-averse. You’re math-averse. The reason you haven’t started that business, published that work, or made that career move isn’t because you’re scared. It’s because you’re running the wrong calculation. Most people think about risk like accountants. They see a potential move - start a podcast, launch a product, quit their job - and immediately calculate what they could lose. Time. Money. Reputation. Stability. The numbers add up to “too risky.” So they don’t move. They stay in jo...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comTwo words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. Because every single thing you think is “realistic” about your life is actually just someone else’s delusion that you’ve agreed to live inside. I spent my twenties bei...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comTwo words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. Because every single thing you think is “realistic” about your life is actually just someone else’s delusion that you’ve agreed to live inside. I spent my twenties bei...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comTwo words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. Because every single thing you think is “realistic” about your life is actually just someone else’s delusion that you’ve agreed to live inside. I spent my twenties bei...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comTwo words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. Because every single thing you think is “realistic” about your life is actually just someone else’s delusion that you’ve agreed to live inside. I spent my twenties bei...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comAsking for advice vs. asking for permission. One seeks truth. The other seeks comfort. We've confused the two so completely that most "advice" conversations are just elaborate permission rituals disguised as decision-making. The permiss...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comAsking for advice vs. asking for permission. One seeks truth. The other seeks comfort. We've confused the two so completely that most "advice" conversations are just elaborate permission rituals disguised as decision-making. The permiss...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThere's a difference between not knowing and pretending to know. One builds credibility. The other destroys it. Not knowing vs. fake knowing Not knowing is a temporary state. It's the honest admission that you lack information, experien...

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.comThere's a difference between not knowing and pretending to know. One builds credibility. The other destroys it. Not knowing vs. fake knowing Not knowing is a temporary state. It's the honest admission that you lack information, experien...