Ep 16: When in doubt, Do G.R.E.A.T. things! Here's how.
Anchors give us stability and direction when times are tough. In this episode, Kasey and Brian discuss the value of living a life focused on doing GREAT things (Give - Relate - Explore -Analyze - Try), why it matters, and how it looks.
Give:
- "If you’re a taker, you help others strategically, when the benefits to you outweigh the personal costs. If you’re a giver, you might use a different cost-benefit analysis: you help whenever the benefits to others exceed the personal costs . . . if you’re a giver at work, you simply strive to be generous in sharing your time, energy, knowledge, skills, ideas, and connections with other people who can benefit from them.” - Givers and Takers, by Adam Grant
- "The key to finding happiness is to transcend, to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being. When you romanticize the future more than the past, you move forward. But when you romanticize the present, you become free." - The Mountain is You, by Brianna West
- The Energy Bus, by Jon Gordon
Relate:
- You can read the story of Brian's grandma and J.C. and see their beautiful photo here, "Beyond Tolerance."
- "Ignore the words - hear the story."
Explore:
- "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete" - Dangers of a Single Story, by Chimamanda Adichie.
- "I couldn't tell you, honey, I don't know. Where I'm going, but I've got to go. 'Cause every turn reveals some other road. I'm a traveler. . . When I'm gone, someone else will have to feel this wrong. Someone else will have to sing this song. Someone else will have to sing along." Traveller, by Chris Stapleton
Analyze:
- "An unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
- My notebook has remained blank for months; thanks to the light you shower; around me. I have no use; for my pen, which lies; languorously without grief.; Nothing is better than to live; a storyless life that needs; no writing for meaning—; when I am gone, let others say; they lost a happy man; though no one can tell how happy I was." - Missed Time, by Ha Jin
- " . . .The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood . . ." - Man in the Arena, Teddy Roosevelt.
- "In matters of style, swim with the current. In manners of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
- "There are few choices in life where there are no risks on either side." - Beyond Chaos: Twelve More Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
Try:
- "Its the ability to maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of difficulties" - Good to Great, by Jim Collins
- "When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck"
