[antifragile 4 🔥] playing to win or not to lose, true competition, Scott Galloway on what you're good at, Richard Feynman on doing over being

#42: a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind.

Welcome to the 42nd edition of the antifragile 4 🔥.

It’s a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind. Some weeks will have a theme, others will meander. Expect it every Friday.

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Here is this week’s antifragile 4 🔥:

1. a question 🤨 about playing to win or playing not to lose

2. an idea 💡 about competition

3. Scott Galloway 👨🏻‍🦲 on what to do when you find what you’re good at

4. Richard Feynman 👨🏻‍⚕️ on doing over being

+ AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨

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1.) a question 🤨 about playing to win or playing not to lose

Are we driven to play to win, where we want to take on the challenge before us? Or are we trying to survive via playing not to lose?

Steve Magness, Win the Inside Game

Are you playing not to get fat? Or playing to have incredible health?

Are you playing not to piss off your wife? Or are you playing to foster an environment where she thrives?

Are you parenting not to mess your kids up? Or parenting them to become a light in this world?

2.) an idea 💡 about competition

98% of the battle is just showing up.

What idea do you want to continue to persevere with?

3.) Scott Galloway 👨🏻‍🦲 on what to do when you find what you’re good at

Find what you’re very good at and outsource everything else.

Scott Galloway

Outsourcing tasks I’m not good at has become one of the great joys of my life.

It took me a while to get there as I had a weird amount of guilt to wade through.

But the truth is, the work gets done better and almost always faster when you give it away - especially to talented folks.

So give those tasks to someone better than you. And focus on your genius.

4.) Richard Feynman 👨🏻‍⚕️ on doing over being

Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

Richard Feynman

Let’s start asking kids what they want to do, rather than what they want to be.

AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨

Richard Feynman & Scott Galloway winning the race of life.

Two last things for you this week:

1. Play to win. Stop playing not to lose.

2. Be fire and wish for the wind 🔥

With love,
Chris

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