Happy Sunday!
Here are 49 insights I have gathered for you:

Eureka moments: Innovation often takes a long time, and moments of instant breakthrough are very rare.

Team work: Few innovations where made by one person, it nearly always happens between multiple people.

Serendipity: Great breakthroughs often happen when looking for something else.

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” - Peter Drucker

Failure is common: “Failure is often the father of success in innovation.”

The importance of freedom: Innovation happens in freedom, not under strict regulation.

“Everything fluctuates on earth; nothing remains in a constant and lasting form, and those affections which are attached to external things necessarily change with their object.”

Stay present: We can’t return to the past no matter how much we want to, and we can’t attach ourselves to the uncertain future that may never arrive.

Intention hurts more: We are more hurt when a stone is thrown toward us (but doesn’t hit us) deliberately from a malovent hand, than a brick hitting us that fell from a roof.

Study to learn, not to impress.

Three thing the modern economy is good at generating: “Wealth, the ability to show off wealth, and great envy for other people’s wealth.”

Low Expectations = Happiness

On predicting the future: We can predict the future, just not the random events that tend to be all that matter.

What won’t change in 50 years: The way people will respond to greed, fear, opportunity, exploitation, risk, uncertainty, tribal affiliations, and social persuasion.

Great things take time, patience is thus a key ingredient to success.

The best financial plan: “Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist.”

“Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.”

Blinding desire: “The more desire I have for something to work out a certain way, the less likely I am to see the truth.”

How to escape competition: Be authentic, no one can compete with you on being you.

What you should pursue in life: “The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.”

If you play stupid games, you’ll win stupid prices.

How to be happy: Have no desires, then nothing will be missing.

What wealth is: “Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.”

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”