📝 How To Be Happy & Why People Fail in Business

Five Interesting Things I Came Across This Week

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Fahim Sachedina
January 22, 2024

Sup friends 👋,

I spent my Friday at the London Blockchain Summit - good vibes + good discussions were at the heart of it all. I wrote a summary of my key takeaways here.

Onto my five takeaways of the week - let’s get to it 🙂 

It’s easy to come up with cultural values and let them gather dust for the rest of their days.

I like this systemised view of breaking each value down, while determining where you ‘skew’ across a range of different areas.

This makes things a lot more tangible.

Also like the tip of having a more bottoms-up approach (this was one of their attributes), and working with a group of people at the company to develop the new values based on these new directions.

If you have an NY subscription, you’ll be able to read - for everyone else, there’s the below:

#1: Move more. The number one thing experts recommended was to keep your body active

#2: Eat more fruits and vegetables

#3: Get enough sleep

#4: Don’t smoke, and don’t drink too much either.

#5: Manage your chronic conditions

#6: Prioritize your relationships

#7: Cultivate a positive mindset

All things I’m sure many of us are aware of, but always useful to hear the reminders.

#3: How to Be Happy

I found this in one of the many newsletters I subscribe to, and had to find the twitter thread.

  • Create a table

  • Create two columns - one is ‘good mood’, the other is ‘bad mood’

  • Log your mood each day, giving yourself a score out of 10

  • Analyse your assets and liabilities (you’ll have a TON of data after a month)

  • Design your environment and incentives!

Would recommend reading the whole thread 🙂 

P.S. Apple Health has a mood tracker you can use too!

#4: Why Most People In Business Fail

Some good lessons here - my standouts:

  • Decrease the time between having an idea and getting it done. Everything changes

  • Long-term games and long-term people compound. Resist shiny objects

  • Hire smart people, pay them well, set them up for success... Then leave them the hell alone

  • Health shapes mindset. Mindset shapes action

  • A happy customer is the most powerful marketing. Prioritize reviews. Humans are social animals.

#5: 5 End-of-Life Truths from Steve Jobs

A heavy set of life lessons in this newsletter, but who can say no to some more from Steve Jobs?!

My two favourite:

That’s all for today - feel free to respond and let me know your favourite link 🙂 

Till next week,

Fahim