The Stockdale Paradox
You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. AND at the same time… You must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Niall Doherty
Momentos – July 2019
1 Mentioned before how you get used to living with all kinds of bugs and lizards in Bali, hard to keep them out. Up before sunrise this morning, turned on the light in the kitchen, and got hit with a massive swarm of termites. Our house geckos were loving it. Me, not so much. 2 …
Momentos – June 2019
1 I’ve had 5 different needles in my body today. Rash on my arms and legs. Sweated through my bedsheets. Took four pills. Ate an egg sandwich. Watched a scary movie. Took a shower with my hand in a bag. Drank lots of water. Made countless trips to the bathroom. And I’m not allowed to …
Momentos – May 2019
1 Came home from a nice dinner at a nice restaurant to find a lizard the size of my hand in the kitchen, light blue with red spots, took a bite at a clothes hanger when we tried shooing him out the window. Now there’s a young Balinese man here with a plastic bag tied …
Momentos – Apr 2019
1 Pretty much all my adult life I’ve used an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Experimenting without one now. Set a timer when I go to sleep, stop it when I wake up, see how long I slept. In theory, my body should rest as much as it needs to, and wake …
Momentos – Mar 2019
1 What’s better for making money: great product + mediocre marketing, or mediocre product + great marketing. I wish it was the first but it’s got to be the second. How else do you explain people the success of people like Tai Lopez and Donald Trump? The one thing they know how to do best is get …
Momentos – Feb 2019
1 Walking down a quiet street in Chiang Mai and I bump into a legend of a man I last saw in Colombia back in 2014. We promptly drop all plans and spend the next 4.5 hours catching up. He’s aiming to visit 40 countries this year (on a mission to see the whole world), …
Momentos – Jan 2019
1 Every year on this day I watch Benjamin Button, have done since 2009. But not this year. Didn’t feel the urge. Went ice skating instead. Hard to know sometimes if it’s best to do something even when you don’t feel like doing it, or if you should yield to the resistance. 2 You ever get …
Momentos – Dec 2018
1 Off a call with an old friend there, his online business has exploded the past 18 months or so. Talking 10x revenue, up to $40k/month now. Asked if he’d be down for an interview but he’d rather his competition doesn’t know what he’s doing. Understandable. Has me buzzing though, wondering if I should take …
Momentos – Nov 2018
1 How you spend your days is how you spend your life. I gotta start cutting back the work hours, find it creeping into evenings and weekends too often. I tell myself that it’s temporary, just until I get over the hump, but what if there is no hump to get over? Maybe success isn’t …