🕊 The Art of Vulnerability

✨ Here's Why You Need to Live in Public, Set Boundaries with Vulnerability and Take a Nap.

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Elaha
July 08, 2022

Hey friends,

This week we’ll cover vulnerability combined with boundaries, learning to take nap to succeed, and living a life in public.

I also wrote my first piece on a Day in My Life as an operator. As you can tell, I’m a high energy, passionate person with a zest for life. I want to share my journey in tech and startups as a way to connect.

I always love to hear from others who are on a similar ambitious path in life.

P.s. We’re so close to hitting 120 subscribers. It would make me smile if you share it with a friend that would enjoy this newsletter. Thank you!

Much love,

Elaha

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Interesting Links This Week

🧠 Mindset

  • Ryan argues why we don't get to succeed privately.

  • Every accomplishment requires a level of drawing attention to yourself, since life demands that you speak up for what you believe in and take a gamble by championing causes.

  • This is one of my all time favourite pieces. If there's an article you want to read from today's curation, I highly recommend giving this a read.

  • Pessimism creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • Entrepreneurs need to maintain their optimism in the value of what they are creating more than ever.

❤️‍🩹 Wellness

  • How a Silicon Valley executive uses a 20-minute nap ritual to supercharge his output.

  • Practical steps to setting an environment for napping.

  • “ I close my eyes and meditate, alternating between two simple words: love and happiness. Breathe in on love. Breathe out on happiness. “

  • Brene offers guidance on how to express vulnerability at work without divulging too much personal information.

  • A performative culture that suppresses curiosity and other vulnerable qualities is doomed to fail.

  • “ Vulnerability minus boundaries is not vulnerability.”

👩🏻‍💻 Career

  • This piece offers a perspective on the dangers of staying at a complacent job.

  • It provides a framework for measuring things like growth, accomplishments, challenges, and community every three months.

  • The main lesson from this article: “ Treat complacency like cancer. “

  • According to Elad, startups are the result of doing things for customers rather than working on a brilliant idea.

  • Concentrate on a market that is expanding and build a service or a product that you would use personally.

  • Iterate and maintain consistency, and eventually you might have a thriving company.

Book of the Week

💓 Why I Loved It:

Steven Pressfield provides an introspection on resistance to creativity. He offers some helpful advice on how to treat your creativity and art seriously and dedicate yourself to it like a profession. He discusses the internal forces that can hinder our ability to be creative, such as resistance (procrastination, anxiety, and uncertainty). It's a short and light read that explains how to use your talent and ambition.

💡Top Highlights:

“Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. ”

“Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don’t do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to?”

“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.”

Tweet of the Week

Meet the Curator

I'm currently based in Sydney, Australia. I'm a startup operator, business and mindset enthusiast, and lifelong learner. When I'm not working, I can be often found bringing people together, studying the world's best people in tech and reading endlessly.

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