Jim Murphy

You're going to go down towards self-centeredness and fear.

We need to have an intentional plan based on love, wisdom, and courage.

Sacrifice.

Doing hard things.

Doing some of the inter-excellence disciplines.

There's nine of them.

And then moving towards that selfless and therefore fearless life.

very deliberate about our lives and seeking wisdom above all else wisdom is the greatest thing anyone could ever seek it's far different than knowledge to me knowledge is understanding how these transactional temporary things in life work how does a lawnmower work great things that can

create great companies and how do you build a computer or a light or a table or a business knowledge is super helpful important it's just like logic super important and helpful but logic also can be very limiting and so can knowledge and logic doesn't send a man to the moon

Wisdom to me is to have unobstructed views of beauty and connections and possibilities, unhindered by our own self-reliance.

And on another level, it's also how I think about wisdom is to know who God is and therefore who you are, what he's doing in the world and how you can join in.

Michael was in the minor leagues playing for one of the Chicago teams around the same time that I was in the minor leagues playing for one of the Chicago teams.

And yeah, he's probably such an inspiring athlete in that the documentary on him, it said his greatness was his ability to be fully present.

And I think that's so true.

And I think courage is the greatest thing that most successful people have in common and that Michael also had.

And what's great about that is that we can all have it.

Yeah, cut from his high school team, the ability to be resilient and not get down.

That's such a trait of the best.

That's a great story, actually.

So I'm in the desert.