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A Hunger for Excellence

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Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights you can use in life and work. (Read the archives). Not subscribed? Learn more and sign up. Your goals are not big enough. The best way to network is to do something interesting. When you do interesting work in public, a network will form around you. If everyone likes you, you’re doing something wrong. Every time someone disapproves of you, your brain registers it as a survival threat. Evolution wired us to believe that rejection equals death. If the tribe kicked you out, you didn’t survive the winter. But the world has changed. Being disliked is necessary to live a meaningful life. The cost of making decisions to please others instead of yourself is misery. Henry Ford on the key to life: “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” Coach Mike Krzyzewski on wanting the right thing: “My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. When you attain excel

A Hunger for Excellence No. 660 – December 21, 2025 Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights you can use in life and work. ( Read the archives ). Not subscribed? Learn more and sign up . Tiny Thoughts Your goals are not big enough. The best way to network is to do something interesting. When you do interesting work in public, a network will form around you. If everyone likes you, you’re doing something wrong. Every time someone disapproves of you, your brain registers it as a survival threat. Evolution wired us to believe that rejection equals

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