Circles represent continuity, heavenly bodies, completeness.
From Kevin Eastman:
Key question: "who are the people we are spending the most time with? They play a part in how we think, work, how we motivate ourselves and what kind of attitude we bring everyday.
- Choose people who tell you the truth.
- Choose a circle that is small and tight knit: be careful who you let in.
- Choose people who are wise.
- Choose people who will look at for your future, not just their future.
- Choose people who know what objectives you wish to reach how to best reach them.
- Choose people who will help you, not just take from you.
- Choose people who can inspire and impact your life, not just influence your life.
- Choose people “who know the no’s” of success (no entitlement, no selfishness, no character mistakes).
Circles should not be based on friendship alone, but also on respect and trust."
Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett emphasize expertise, broad knowledge, the "Circle of competence." Function within your circle while building it through reading and study.
Have an "inner circle" of trusted advisers, e.g. the John Calipari Personal Board of directors. Surround ourselves with great people, not those who will make us look good by comparison.
Avoid the vicious circle of making mistakes and compounding them. Remember the priority when in a hole, stop digging.
Unsuccessful people struggle, "running around in circles."
When we're losing we "circle the drain." Hope is not a plan.
Success means project completion. Dot the i's and cross the t's. "Close the circle."
Life often has a pendulum between extremes, an oscillation among possibilities and politics. Successful programs decline and new blood may resuscitate them to "come full circle."
Reevaluate. Is our product or service good enough? "Circle around" means doing the hard work, the challenge of self-assessment. Is our skill, strategy, physicality, psychology going to make us contenders or pretenders?
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