My rector was a military man for over 30 years. He’s told us many times that two principles for effective leadership were drilled into him above all others:

1. Lead from the front; &
2. Give a damn.

The second principle is the hardest because it requires prioritization. 1/

One can’t care about everything equally. There’s simply not enough mental and moral energy to go around. And one shouldn’t care about all things equally.

Part of the reason that so many are on a diet of Rolaids and Pepcid is because they care too much about the wrong things. 2/
This is one reason I stopped watching the news well over a year ago. Most of what made the veins on my forehead beat like a kettle drum consisted of things I couldn’t change and shouldn’t even be worrying over. 3/
Instead, I decided to focus on my interior life and my church and family. I think all three are better for it.

St. Paul tells us to concern ourselves with cultivating personal virtue as an antidote to anxiety (Phil. 4:6-8). 4/
To think on such things is hard work. It requires guarding ourselves against the transitory and ephemeral distractions that do nothing but distract us and destroy our peace. Ultimately, to care rightly, we can’t care about most things. 5/
This seems counterintuitive but I suggest that it is an act of faith. It is an admission of our finitude (we really can’t pull the world up by its bootstraps if we worry enough), and a confession that God is God and we are not. So we pray and leave Him to do the heavy lifting. 6/
For our part, we study to be quiet and to do our own business and to work with our own hands in our own back yards.

In this way we are able to care about those things that need the greatest care, and will be able to “lead from the front” and truly “give a damn.” Fin/

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THE WINNERS OF THE 24 HOUR STARTUP CHALLENGE

Remember, this money is just fun. If you launched a product (or even attempted a launch) - you did something worth MUCH more than $1,000.

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The winners 👇

#10

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@frantzfries built a platform where you can see how skipping your morning latte could do for the world.

A great product for a great cause.

Congrats Chris on winning $250!


#9

Instaland - Create amazing landing pages for your followers.

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A team project! @bpmct and @BaileyPumfleet built a tool for social media influencers to create simple "swipe up" landing pages for followers.

Really impressive for 24 hours. Congrats!


#8

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Dalton is a beast. I'm so excited he placed in the top 10.


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I wish this existed when I learned to code! Congrats on $250!!
THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)