Gena Gorlin

It's official, friends: I'm writing my first book with @penguinrandom Feeling very grateful to @emmalleong and @melflashman and to all my therapy/coaching clients and Building the Builders subscribers (and you all!) for helping me get this far <3

5yo just experienced regular cable TV for the first time (via United’s in-flight DirectTV service), and is now weeping inconsolably upon discovering that she can’t rewind to the beginning of the movie :’(

“All I trust I give my heart to, all I trust becomes my own…” The best of my psychology was built on Oscar Hammerstein lyrics

~100% of the time someone’s accused of being “too ambitious”, the real problem is that they’re either chasing the wrong ambition or trading in real ambition for a self-soothing counterfeit If anything, this means they’re not being ambitious enough

Raise your hand if you’d give anything for such a performance review 🙋🏻‍♀️

Sometimes I try to think back and remember how I ever lived without Calendly Couldn’t have been a very pleasant or productive existence, at any rate

no one: 2yo: I don’t want to grow up @mbateman: Why not? 2yo: I don’t want to be big. I don’t want to be daddy Matt: You want to stay Adam? 2yo: Ya

This is what @Gena_I_Gorlin calls "builder's mindset," an agentic, personally defined ambition. It's a third alternative to a false dichotomy she identifies as drill sergeant (external validation) vs. zen master (passive outcomes). The "builder's mindset" connects to a "why."

My new goal for when I hit 40 is to be wise enough that I no longer feel compelled to plan major projects and deadlines around the symbolic significance of reaching a certain milestone by the time I hit 40 💪

Ideology (values, worldview) is inevitable, indoctrination is not. You can give children room to question and disagree or not. You can introduce things in a way that is accessible to their independent thought and understanding or not.

Sigh

5yo just informed me that she has invented a “1-second airplane” that goes from Austin to Asia in 1 second, and she’s giving it away for FREE @bscholl, you’ve got your competition cut out for you 😬

Guess I’ll be rescheduling my Friday meetings :D

Is it just a coincidence that I heard 2 separate people use the term “uncomfy” in different meetings today, having never heard it before? Not sure how I feel about this development