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Ameen Kaleem's avatar

Reminded me of Nasim Taleb: ‘The resilient resists shocks and stays the same. The antifragile gets better.’

Enjoyed your piece. Just subscribed to Visual Growth. Wishing you the best!

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Ameen, I'm so glad to have you as a subscriber. Nasim has some brilliant ideas. Let's continue getting better!

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Jason Leow's avatar

Beautiful writing. And lovely you found a wholesome way to channel anger. The world needs that.

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Ash Lamb's avatar

That means a lot coming from you Jason. So glad this resonated with you.

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Yasuharu Sawada's avatar

Thanks for the nice text! When things around me don't go as planned, I always feel depressed and turn to bad habits. I realized that anger can be a turning point. Your text reached me here in Japan, too. Thank you so much!

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Love your name, Yasuharu. I'm glad this spoke to you, we all turn to bad habits because we're human, but step by step we can rise above them. You've got this!

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Evelyn Novaes's avatar

Wow, what a cool text, it made a lot of sense to me! Arrived here in Brazil :)

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Evelyn, I'm so glad this struck a chord, thank you for reading from Brazil!

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Margreet de Heer's avatar

Nice. Anger is energy. Careful with the marathons though, they can wreak havoc on your knees.

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Appreciate that! I'll be ok, rotting on my couch is worse for my knees, they were designed to be used. All the best Margreet!

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Stuart Armstrong's avatar

Awesome piece Ash…(as always)

I recently went to an interview and one of the tasks was to chart your life story…

In my explanation I told the panel that I had a lot of rage inside me…

Rage against injustice, rage against systems designed to exclude…etc etc

It’s my fuel…channeled right and I’m unstoppable…if it gets out of control then there is a problem…

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Ash Lamb's avatar

You're unstoppable Stuart! The best is yet to come. Keep going, no obstacle will stop you.

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Mark S. West's avatar

Very insightful!

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Appreciate that Mark!

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Mark's avatar

Keep on running Ash. 🔥

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Let's get after it Mark.

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Peter Inge's avatar

I’ve been working on a piece called “Choose your fuel” on the different places we find motivation and the implications of them. This gives me a good perspective to consider. Thanks!

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Ash Lamb's avatar

Perfect Peter! Glad you found it inspiring. Best of luck with your new piece :)

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anzhela schults's avatar

My fastest races were when I was angry. And now I am slow mentally balanced runner. Anger lets us tolerate physical discomfort

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Ash Lamb's avatar

It's great to hear I'm not the only one Anzhela, let's continue leveraging the power of anger to our advantage.

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