🧠 TIL.

In this Olympic clip of a weight lifter almost passing out, a coach gives her something to smell. Turns out smelling salts are common in weight lifting. They will give you a burst of adreniline.

😓 Biles on leaving the competition.

Biles said after the competition that she had hoped to compete for herself, but “felt like I was still doing it for other people.” She added, “So that just, like, hurts my heart, because doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people.” via NYT.

⚕️ A powerful and useful…

“I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.” ~ Simone Biles

🧗🏿‍♂ ️I could only find this Simone Biles rope climb footage on TikTok. Enjoy.

💯 BTW, Simone Biles deserves higher scores by Alex Abad Santos.

😅Anyone else have a home sauna story?

I see them online for as little as $1k and so I was happy that a reader sent in a review of hers.

I have one of those small infrared saunas and absolutely love it! …

🏅The greatest story from the weekend Olympic events was Anna Kiesenhofer sneaking away for gold in the women’s cycling road race. She’s a very serious amateur cyclist with a day job as a math professor.

“I’m not the kind of cyclist who is only pushing the pedals; I’m also the mastermind behind my performance.” ~ her comment to Cycling News.

😳 What happened is that the favorites in the race got very confused.

Anna was in a three-person break up the road. That break got a ten-minute lead and then Anna attacked her two companions.

Behind them, the favorites for…

“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.” — Sanya Richards-Ross, gold-medal track and field athlete

🏅 I’m excited for the Olympics because I want to dig into what each athlete had to do to reach peak performance. Expect a lot of lessons from sports in the newsletter.

⚾ Here is a TikTok of two baseball catchers doing a drill. One is obviously doing the drill better than the other. The difference is about attention to detail rather than skill.

😴 The Mundanity of Excellence. Full study | Excellent Summary of the Study

The reason I…

The best thing I ever did to make more money was just to pay attention. I know that sounds trite and maybe impossible and a little bit like manifesting. But it wasn’t magic. I paid attention and that led to different spending and different decisions about opportunities.

On the flip side, I know from survey work and client interviews that people who are anxious about money often practice avoidance. Here’s a common behavior: you stop opening any of your mail for fear that the mail contains a bill you can’t pay.

Onward to what other people say about money.

💰…

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” — Banksy

📚 I’m thinking about Trudy Horsting’s article, How to Combat Burnout, because basically everyone I know is talking about burnout. Do you feel burnt out? Take my single-question poll.

🛑 “Stop doing as much — but ease into it.”

That was the line in Trudy’s article that hit me hardest. If I slow down too fast then that creates its own anxiety.

📺 Practicing what I preach, I entered combat with burnout by watching all of Loki on Saturday followed by Summer of Soul. …

“We’re only envious of those already doing what we were made to do. Envy is a giant, flashing arrow pointing us toward our destiny.” — Glennon Doyle Melton

🏃‍♂️ Are You Your Own Person? Take the self-determination inventory to find out.

I answered agree to 3 of the 14 questions, but this isn’t a competition.

The Anti-hustle Culture Is Just as Bad as the Hustle Culture by Michelle Loucadoux, MBA

The anti-hustle culture is becoming just as stressful as the hustle culture. …

🧭 That quote is from AP coverage of Gloria Richardson’s passing. Her story inspires me.

💡 Nearly every day I think about Teju Ravilochan’s article putting Maslow’s hierarchy of needs into context. We pursue self-actualization in order to be capable of community actualization. I’ve linked to this article before.

🧒 David Paul Kirkpatrick introduced me to the new age concept of Indigo Children, “Indigos are highly aware, ultra-sensitive children. They see a need in the world and want to help change it.” Historically Joan of Arc, in the modern world Greta Thunberg.

📘 My leadership article, How to get promoted…