Ignore your friends

Hello and happy Friday,

This week, a few things around ignoring your friends:

One quote

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay

"When I started eBay, people thought I was crazy. 

My in-laws told me there was no need for a website to help people sell old junk. 

Five years later I was worth eight billion dollars.”

One thought

Always take career feedback from friends and family with a grain of salt.

Generally, they will have a tendency to support familiar ideas and criticise unfamiliar ones.

It’s not because they’re jealous or wrong.

They just don’t have the time or bandwidth to understand the future you want for yourself.

One statistic

Publicly discussing your goals feels good in the moment.

A nice hit of dopamine.

But according to Inc., doing so reduces your likelihood of achieving that goal by 30%.

Why?

Because your brain’s reward system is immediately triggered…

…without you actually doing anything.

And finally, One Last Thing:

We should always try to achieve our goals in communion with those we care about.

But the very people we want to help are usually the ones who misunderstand us.

Carry on anyway.

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Speak in a week,

Jordan