🪴 3-2-1: On self-love's impact, growing with friends, and aiming for perfection
December 1, 2025
Here are this week’s 3 ideas, 2 ICYMI, and 1 big question to reflect upon.
3 Ideas
I.
“If you truly love yourself you have the ability to make a positive, significant dent on the universe.”
~ Sigil Wen
II.
“I believe that friendship is two or more people that agree to grow together.”
~ Simon Sinek
III.
“I’d rather shoot for an A and make a C, rather than shoot for C and make an F.
Go for perfection, the reality always comes under it. But in that moment you see the inevitable reality, the outcome, the result, how quickly can we go ‘Oh okay, but I got so much more out of it, because I went for perfection, than if had just gone for passing’”
~ Matthew McConaughey
2 cool posts you might have missed
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1 big question for you
Would Elon still build a massive company if he got insanely unlucky? Can you somehow force luck into existence? Do the very best people do it?
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