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21 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
This week, I unlocked 5 premium Dossiers for the @ProfileRead's 2020 Year in Review.

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Spotify's Daniel Ek is not your typical CEO. He likes to go on long walks that help him sharpen his thinking. He looks to Beyoncé for ideas on the creative process. He refuses to schedule more than three meetings per day.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
Legendary investor Charlie Munger believes that the avoidance of stupidity is more important than the pursuit of excellence. “You have a moral duty to make yourself as un-ignorant and un-stupid as you can,” he says.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
In 2000, Spanx CEO Sara Blakely used her $5,000 in savings to start her company, and by 2012, she was named the youngest self-made female billionaire.

Today, Blakely still owns 100% of Spanx and has no outside investors.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
Malcolm Gladwell’s theories have served as conversation starters around the world.

This is a deep dive on his ideas around why talent is a myth, how we misjudge the character of strangers, and what we can do to fall into intellectual rabbit holes.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
In 2018, Katie Arnold won the Leadville Trail 100 Run, a 100-mile ultramarathon held on rugged trails & dirt roads.

It took her 19 hours, 53 minutes, and 40 seconds.

“Some days I can no longer tell if running is madness or the clearest kind of sanity.”

theprofile.substack.com/p/katie-arnold
Check out the full year in review here:

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profiles…

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23 Dec
Dwayne '@TheRock' Johnson has become one of the most popular and well-liked people on the planet.

When Johnson started in Hollywood, his ambitions were extraordinary — and his incredible capacity for work has made them a reality.

Here's how he did it 👇👇👇 Image
Johnson is the highest-paid actor in the world, making more than $20 million per movie, thanks to a string of box office hits.

His films have grossed over $10.5 billion worldwide, which makes him one of the highest-grossing movie stars of all time.
The reason? His charisma and drive for greatness.

Johnson tests well in what the film industry refers to as "all four quadrants:" old men, young men, old women, and young women.

In other words, the people who don't like The Rock are few and far between.
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16 Dec
Meet Daniel Ek (@eldsjal), the Swedish no-nonsense founder who built Spotify into a creative empire.

Here's how he did it:

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In 2006, he was asking himself this seemingly impossible question: "What is better than free?"

At the time, online music piracy was thriving in Sweden.

The country had one of the fastest internet speeds in the world, which allowed people to download music in seconds.
The second that Ek tried Napster, he was hooked. The world's music was suddenly at his fingertips — for free.

Napster eventually got shut down, but Ek knew that it would be impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.

Something needed to exist that could be legal AND free.
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15 Dec
Here's why lowering your bar for victory can make you happier, according to astronaut Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield)

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Hadfield was an astronaut for 21 years, but he only spent 6 months in space.

You have to find a way to maintain a sense of purpose for a long period of time. How?
“I don’t wait until the end to feel successful,” Hadfield says. “I don’t say, ‘The only time I’m going to be happy is when I walk on the moon. If you wait until you walk on the moon, it still won’t be fun because it won’t turn out the way you envisioned.”
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14 Dec
In Sunday's @ProfileRead: An interview with @Noah_Galloway, a veteran whose vehicle ran over a tripwire that detonated a roadside bomb.

He lost his left arm, left leg, & entire military career.

Here's how Galloway turned his life around.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
The man who builds impossible things: Mark Ellison is a carpenter savant, a welder, a sculptor, a contractor, a cabinetmaker, an inventor, and an industrial designer. He is the person billionaires hire to build impossible things (@NewYorker)

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
The athlete-turned-activist: LeBron James has embraced that his talent on the court is a means to achieving something greater. This year, he got deep-pocketed owners, fellow athletes & fans around the world engaged directly with democracy (@seanmgregory)

time.com/athlete-of-the…
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3 Nov
On Election Eve, here are the top 10 lessons on leadership I've learned from the world's most interesting & successful people:

Shockingly (or not), none of them are politicians.

🧵 below:
1. Know the edge of your own competence.

When Charlie Munger was younger, he struggled to overcome his own arrogance.

Over the years, he’s learned a valuable lesson: No one is infallible, and you need to operate within the subject areas you know best.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
2. Let people be their true selves.

As a leader, Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya believes you have a responsibility to create an environment where people don’t feel like they have to pretend in order to fit in.

“Normalize the phrase, ‘I don’t know,’” he says

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
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2 Nov
ICYMI yesterday's @ProfileRead: We talk about the importance of learning paired with swift action

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
The investors betting big on crypto: Fred Ehrsam & Matt Huang convinced top institutions to give them $750 million to invest in a market they were too blue-blooded to touch directly. Take a look inside cryptocurrency VC firm Paradigm. (@alexrkonrad)

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
The world's best bureaucrat: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's propensity for action has kept the economy relatively stable in the face of the unprecedented crisis that was COVID-19. Meet one of the most powerful figures in Washington. (@jbarro)

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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