@doughensch.bsky.social
Executive coach, author, dad and husband who values #humility, #curiosity and #creativity above all else. Go Bills! #BillsMafia
I have been dying to express an annoyance.Take a close look at those bios of people who claim they wrote a best-selling book.
Most of them are showcasing a strange participation trophy.
The truth:
- Fewer than 500 books sell more than 100K copies per year.
- Only 10K sell 5,000.
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If you love what you do, you never have to work a day in your life!
16.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Curious? By Todd Kashdan
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Ronald Reagan put it plainly when he said that freedom is “never more than one generation away from extinction.”
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My Mom never asked me what I wanted for dinner.
After complaining that I wasn't getting enough playing time for one of my hs teams my Dad said, "Every team needs players on the bench."
My parents helped me realize that I really wasn't as important as I thought I was. Thank you, Mom & Dad.
An American hero - anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
06.05.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI.
Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.
Writing is where we do our best thinking.
“Among the saddest parts of the last 100 days, which have been an avalanche of misery if you care about life itself, is that climate change is barely mentioned.”
04.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 989 🔁 207 💬 1 📌 16Perfectionism rarely begets perfection or satisfaction - only disappointment.
03.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0880 billion dollars ‼️ That is how much Republicans are planning to strip from Medicaid.
Americans on Medicaid are your grandparents, your neighbors, your friends. House GOP should be ashamed.
Recent poll: 75% of US-based scientists are considering leaving the country - that and other scary data points indicate a severe loss of talent and dire outcomes for our collective health
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Cc...
This is pretty good.
28.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 543 🔁 54 💬 61 📌 11“If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.” ― Epictetus
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Wrexham make history by becoming the first club to win three promotions in a row to go from non-League to the Championship.
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@ryan-holiday.bsky.social had a lecture on Wisdom at the Naval Academy banned bc he refused to remove a slide that mentioned the book ban. Instead, Holiday gave the lecture on YouTube - please watch, like and repost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcnE...
24.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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A view of Earth rising above the Moon's horizon, taken from space. The Moon's barren, gray surface stretches across the lower portion of the image, while Earth appears as a small, vibrant blue-and-white sphere against the vast blackness of space.
Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
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Kudos to @ryan-holiday.bsky.social for not backing down on his principles. #Courage #Wisdom
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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil
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This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years.
Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to NASA. Just sayin'.
Elon Musk has succeeded in spite of the way he treats others, not because of it.
Belittling is not a leadership strategy—it reflects a lack of self-control. Demeaning doesn't get results—it thwarts productivity.
Disrespect for the status quo can be a virtue. Disrespect for people is a vice.
We shouldn’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. It encourages them to define themselves in terms of work.
Who we become is not a question of career—it’s a matter of character.
The highest aspiration is to be a person of generosity, integrity, humility, curiosity, and wisdom.
“I don’t know.”
No bluffing, no bravado—one of the best coaches in all of sports willing to admit uncertainty on one of the biggest stages. In that moment, she modeled a kind of confidence we need more of in leadership.
“I don’t know” doesn’t make you weak—it makes you real.
A sign of wisdom is choosing not to believe everything you think. A mark of emotional intelligence is choosing not to internalize everything you feel.
Thoughts and emotions are possibilities to ponder, not facts to accept. We don’t always invite them in, but we decide whether they deserve to stay.
"If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind was complicit in the provocation." - Epictetus
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When people don't stand up to bad leadership, it's rarely because they don't care. It's often that they feel powerless.
Learned helplessness is the pattern of giving up when we learn that events in our lives are beyond our control.
The answer isn't to accept defeat. It's to find sources of power.
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