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Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Being busy is a form of lazinessโ€”lazy thinking and indiscriminate action." -Tim Ferriss ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "If you want to be happier, spend more time with living trees (nature) and dead trees (books)." -Alex Wieckowski ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ โ€œIโ€™ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.โ€ -Chaim...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -Seneca ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "A student in a hurry learns the slowest." -Samurai teacher, to Banzo ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough." -Alain de Botton ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "At the highest levels, learning isn't something you do to prepare for your work. Learning is...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐Ÿ™ 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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Change happens when people get outraged about other people's rights." -Ryan Holiday ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing." -Marcus Aurelius ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." -Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ...

Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "A peasant that reads is a prince is waiting." -Walter Mosley ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Hell is having to meet the person you could have become." -Unknown ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ โ€œLife is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.โ€ -Charles Schulz ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Everyone who strives to reach his potential must pay a priceโ€”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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ โ€œThe surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.โ€ -Eleanor Roosevelt ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future." -Albert Einstein ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose." -Naval Ravikant ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Normal is forgotten. Only weird survives." -George Mack ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "What makes you different or weird, that's your strength." -Meryl Streep ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ โ€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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -Teller (of Penn & Teller) ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later." -Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Great stories happen to those that can tell them." -Ira Glass ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "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 ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." -Marcus Aurelius ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "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...