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A Good Email

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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. Success has a way of attracting people who disappear in storms. The gift with the highest return: believing in someone before they believe in themselves. Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what’s left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren’t yours. Their filters aren’t yours. When you operate on summaries, you’re thinking with someone else’s brain. Legendary Coach Bill Belichick on competing: “Helping the team win doesn’t look warm and fuzzy. It looks like work—usually hard work—if you want to outcompete your opponent.” Tolstoy on shortening the distance between where you are and where you want to go: “A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his ultimate goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’” Singer Jewel s

A Good Email No. 635 – June 29, 202 5 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 Success has a way of attracting people who disappear in storms. The gift with the highest return: believing in someone before they believe in themselves. Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what’s left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren’t yours. Their filters aren’t yours. When you operate on summaries, you&#82

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