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πŸ“š Jazz Music, Working Backwards, and Stoicism Starters

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "Change happens when people get outraged about other people's rights." -Ryan Holiday πŸ—£οΈ "Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing." -Marcus Aurelius πŸ—£οΈ "Society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." -Frances Ellen Watkins Harper πŸ—£οΈ...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "A peasant that reads is a prince is waiting." -Walter Mosley πŸ—£οΈ "Hell is having to meet the person you could have become." -Unknown πŸ—£οΈ β€œLife is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” -Charles Schulz πŸ—£οΈ "Everyone who strives to reach his potential must pay a priceβ€”in time, effort, resources, and opportunities...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ β€œThe surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” -Eleanor Roosevelt πŸ—£οΈ "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future." -Albert Einstein πŸ—£οΈ "Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose." -Naval Ravikant πŸ—£οΈ "In my experience, the more I go after that...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. Want me to train your managers?I'm booking out my speaking calendar for 2026.Click here to email me re: in-person or virtual training. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "Normal is forgotten. Only weird survives." -George Mack πŸ—£οΈ "What makes you different or weird, that's your strength." -Meryl Streep πŸ—£οΈ β€œIf you want to be the successful fish in the pond, the key is...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -Teller (of Penn & Teller) πŸ—£οΈ "Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later." -Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson πŸ—£οΈ "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "Great stories happen to those that can tell them." -Ira Glass πŸ—£οΈ "Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom, and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories." -Alan Kay πŸ—£οΈ "I've come to the conclusion that what human beings were put here to do is story-gather. We take what knowledge we gather...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or my Substack for more book recs & articles. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes πŸ—£οΈ "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." -Marcus Aurelius πŸ—£οΈ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard πŸ—£οΈ "There is someone somewhere who is looking at you and learning from you. You can be extraordinary in the most normal occasions and settings." -Kyle Carpenter (Medal of Honor...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday Visit BobbyPowers.com for more book recs, articles, and insights. πŸ”₯ Insightful Quotes "The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know." -Harry Truman "The more I thought about the future, the more I became interested in history." -Kevin Kelly "A big takeaway from economic history is that the past wasn’t as good as you remember, the present isn’t as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday Visit BobbyPowers.com for more book recs, articles, and insights. Hey all! I'm working on a book for first-time managers. If you became a manager in the past 3 years and you're down to chat for 20 minutes, I'd love to learn about your experience. Reply to this email or click below. Email me to chat! :) πŸ”₯ Inspiring Quotes "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." -Blaise Pascal...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday Visit BobbyPowers.com for more book recs, articles, and insights. πŸ”₯ Thought-Provoking Quotes "Stop offering up advice with a question mark attached." -Michael Bungay Stanier "Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in." -Nancy Willard "Every person you meet knows an amazing lot about something you know virtually nothing about. It won't be obvious, and your job is to discover what it is." -Kevin...