Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "The biggest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking 🗣️ “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti 🗣️ “There are two types of people: Those who want to know more and those who want to defend what they already know.” -Morgan Housel 🗣️...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "We read to know we are not alone." -William Nicholson 🗣️ "'Tis the good reader that makes the good book." -Ralph Waldo Emerson 🗣️ "A book is far more than what the author wrote; it is everything you can imagine and read into it as well." -Dee Hock 🗣️ "Almost every idea that you have is downstream from what you consume. We don’t usually...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward this to a friend so they can learn with you. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "About 99% of the time, the right time is right now." -Kevin Kelly 🗣️ "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." -Friedrich Engels 🗣️ "At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves—our success is a result of what we do." -Catherine Pulsifer 🗣️ "Life...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ “Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a strong person.” -Nadia Comăneci 🗣️ "A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it." -Marcus Aurelius 🗣️ "Anything that truly improves your life is going to be difficult—difficulty is the price of admission. If you avoid it, nothing changes." -Michael Easter...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." -Ram Dass 🗣️ "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices." -Benjamin Franklin 🗣️ "A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others." -Kevin Kelly 🗣️ "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "Risk being seen in all your glory." -Jim Carrey 🗣️ "Confidence attracts, but vulnerability endears." -Derek Sivers 🗣️ "To be interesting, just tell your own story with uncommon honesty." -Kevin Kelly 🗣️ "Connection starts the moment someone decides to stop protecting themselves and make it safe for others to do the same." -Francesca...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action." -Tim Ferriss 🗣️ "If you want to be happier, spend more time with living trees (nature) and dead trees (books)." -Alex Wieckowski 🗣️ “I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” -Chaim...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🔥 Insightful Quotes 🗣️ "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -Seneca 🗣️ "A student in a hurry learns the slowest." -Samurai teacher, to Banzo 🗣️ "Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough." -Alain de Botton 🗣️ "At the highest levels, learning isn't something you do to prepare for your work. Learning is...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. 🙏 Thank You! Thanks to everyone who responded earlier to my request for beta readers for my forthcoming leadership book. The response was way higher than I expected, and all of my beta reading slots for this round are filled. For anyone else who wants to check out an early draft, I'll share another opportunity later once the book is further along. 🔥...
4 months ago • 2 min read