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5 things worth sharing this week.

1. Never care about someone’s opinion who you don’t respect or who can’t even live up to their own standards.
2. For religious people, the quote “only god can judge me” can provide one with great strength and resilience. It means you weigh yourself up against something else, something beyond this world, and nothing on this earth can affect you. For non-religious folk, this can be better thought of as “no one can judge me apart from myself”, which is still helpful.
3. Street smarts are real. In this world, there are doers and intellectuals yet idiots (IYIS), as Nassim Taleb says. We should only listen to the doers (people with skin in the game) because they are the only ones who take the world forward.  
4. Set the world on fire. Tell people what they ought to hear, not what they want to hear, live according to your unwavering values and wage war against what threatens those values. The truth isn’t always comfortable. We aren’t born to make friends, we’re born to make a difference. But when we stand for something, we naturally attract others who stand for the same values and make friends as a byproduct.
5. “If you see fraud and don’t say fraud, you are a fraud.”- Nassim Taleb – my note on this is that when you encounter something inherently bad and ignore it rather than standing up for what’s right, you are part of the problem. There is clearly good and evil in this world, and we need to call out what’s evil, for example, the killing of so many Palestinians by Israel, led by Netanyahu. This mass murder needs to stop.

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