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| February 1st, 2026 - #666 - read online - Free Version Welcome to Brain Food, your weekly signal in a world full of noise. Tiny ThoughtsYour greatest competition is yourself. ** You can't outperform your attitude. What you believe about the work shows up in how you do the work, and how you do the work determines your results. Fix the attitude first. Everything else follows. *** The more ambitious you are, the easier it is to fall into this trap. You hand someone a project and think, "I would have stayed late every night for this." When they leave at 5, you feel betrayed. But here's the thing: you are unusual. Most people aren't like you. That's not a flaw in them. It's what makes you different. Once you stop expecting others to be you, the frustration disappears. InsightsFrench aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on engineering excellence: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ** Bruce Lee on focusing on the outcome: "The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat." *** Performance Coach Greg Harden on what it means to be assertive: "Being assertive means being able to have your needs met while still interacting with great sensitivity to those around you. + It means valuing yourself—valuing your own life, your own goals, your own precious time here on this earth—while at the same time valuing others. The Knowledge ProjectRay Kroc turned McDonald's from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale. At 52, after decades of selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened "the first McDonald's" in 1955 and helped grow it to nearly 8,000 restaurants worldwide. Here's the story of McDonald's Some Tiny Lessons from this episode:
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