NOMAD A Guide for the Trailblazer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Open Letter
You Mustn’t Quit Part 2 of the Struggle 50 The Revelations of Opportunity 58 Amite Music 100 Cannabis Sommelier
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who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance ; one cannot fly into flying .
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Open Letter Part 2 of The Struggle I’m sure many of you entrepreneurs can relate directly!
NOMADs! I’m currently reading a book called The Wise Men by
I don’t think it has to be this way, I think the f irst step is
Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas and a quote that really
understanding that there are people who are looking
stuck out at me was this:
up to you, they may be few or they may be many. But it all starts with a good leader, not a bad team. This is
“The think tanks and committee staffs of Washington are filled with overachieving men and women with impressive resumes and SAT scores, but they often come across as more careerist than creative.” I recently have been doing interviews with f riends getting their interpretations on what NOMAD, the brand is all about and what it means to them personally, and the diversity I’m getting is staggering. I interviewed someone who is currently working for a Fortune 500 company and their interpretation for NOMAD is a person who spurns the careerist moves. Someone who rebels against the very idea or notion that to gain is not to put someone else down which is so typical in today’s corporate environment.
something learned in Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. He talks about the Seal Team training process and breaks down his testing process to see if one team would do better with one leader versus another. The f inal conclusion? There are no bad teams, there are only bad leaders. If you are interested in changing your leadership style, reach out and let’s chat about what the f irst step would be to make that happen. Hint: make sure you start with the books referenced here. Cheers!
It seems that there are many case studies which support this type of win-win situation. The idea that bringing those up around you will in turn help you succeed. Simon Sinek talks about it in his public speeches (look him up on YouTube) or reference his book Start with Why.
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Andrew Carnegie came up with this idea which he gave
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to Napoleon Hill to write in a book called Think and Grow Rich. Leadership books talk about these types of people, but the way they describe them are almost mythological, as if divine in character. You might as well whisk yourself to a fairytale land far away.
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Section Two THE STRUGGLE
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Khalil Gibran
Every time I think of pain, I immediately want to go to an
means.” I think this is especially good for entrepreneurs and
analogy with athletes and practice. “Practice makes perfect...”
ambitious goal oriented individuals who are not only striving for
Or better yet a quote f rom Aristotle talking about excellence
that next leg up, but who are also wanting to change the world.
being a habit, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves,
But there is also a qualifying piece of information as well which
to our art, to the world to do it well.”
needs to be spoken about. Ryan Holiday talks about this aspect
- Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle is the Way.
in his book, The Obstacle is the Way with this quote, “There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it
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