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Good books are like old friends.
You’ve known them for a while. They’re familiar.
The more time you spend together, the more you share and reveal yourselves.
As you go through life, you grow and change (I hope!). So too do your circumstances.
Good books and good friends come with you for the journey, providing guidance and helping you reflect on your changing world.
I’ve been sitting with this excerpt from Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek that I want to share.
More people are starting to recognize that vulnerability is a good thing.
That’s great!
But I often see a misunderstanding of what vulnerability means.
There’s a faux-vulnerability that’s overwhelmingly more common among men than women. It’s widespread in the sports industry.
It ties in with a kind of glorification about doing the work where you are. In an industry that makes substantial use of low-paid or even unpaid labor in the form of young men desperate for any opportunity to work for a sports team, this rhetoric is everywhere.
He shot his shot joined the pantheon of sports metaphors and pop culture memes only recently.
But the idea of taking your shot at something goes back much further. Sports metaphors have always been popular, even for people who aren’t sports fans.
When you set goals for yourself, thinking about them in the sense of taking your shot—and practicing your shot ahead of time—can help you get there.
Metaphors open doors in the mind.
Although I stepped away from basketball this year, the sport still runs through my mind frequently, if only in metaphor.
