Tim Goodenough

Executive Coach specialising in high performance. Love what you do. Do what you love. Author of 'Game Changer Protocol' & bestselling co-author of 'In The Zone'

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

@bryan_johnson "You are perfect just the way you are"

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”

—David Sivers

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Powerful. Indeed, why not you? (Or me?) Amazing race full of amazing competitors. Hearts out to our @AkaniSimbine who still inspires us, your 4ths don't define you, neither does your fighting spirit. You are more, we all are more.

[Noah Lyles, OLY @LylesNoah]

I have Asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, anxiety, and Depression.
But I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can become.
Why Not You!

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Different day - same problem @ss_schools . Unwatchable app. The goodwill you have created is fast disappearing due to the poor quality of your product. And based on this being a consistent problem, it appears that this is not something you are willing to fix. Poor. @SuperSportTV

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

@ss_schools I am a big fan of what you guys are doing and the platform you have created. However for two weeks in a row the frozen picture/buffering is so poor that watching a game you are interested in is beyond frustrating. Are there any plans to improve this? @SuperSportTV

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

It's a useful reflective tool: How many hard things did I actively pursue in the last month/quarter/year. How come?
When you choose experiences you learn at a different level vs experiences that choose you.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The reason to deliberately do hard things is so that when non-self-elected challenges arrive (& they will), you can tell yourself: “I don’t know how this is all going to turn out, but I am certain I can do hard things.” Don’t self injure. But doing hard things is always worthwhile.

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Sjoe. England were great tonight and their plans for our plans were clearly better. Deep respect to our @Springboks for burgling the win. Champion teams find a way to win ugly. #ssrugby

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Writing is still a demanding art that gives on so many levels- even though it often costs a lot too. AI is a great resource, but beware of it just becoming a source.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking points?

While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing. Even when these tools exist, they are not a replacement for writing.

Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.

Writing about something teaches you about what you know, what you don’t know, and how to think. Writing about something is one of the best ways to learn about it. Writing is not just a vehicle to share ideas with others but also a way to understand them better yourself.

Paul Graham put it this way: “A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing.”

There is another important element to writing that often gets overlooked. Writing requires the compression of an idea. When done poorly, compression removes insights. When done well, compression keeps the insights and removes the rest. Compression requires both thinking and understanding, which is one reason writing is so important.

Great writing requires you to position your idea in a way that will resonate with the reader. Average writers start with what they want to say without considering how it will land with the reader. Great writers understand the journey starts with what the reader desires. Think of the difference as starting at the beginning or the end of a maze. When you start at the beginning, you have to convince people the path is the right one. When you start at the end, they already know you’re taking them where they want to go.

In a world of average writing available on demand, every organization will start communicating like a big one. The signal-to-noise ratio will change for the worse. If you’ve ever read a government communication, you understand how a lot of words can say nothing. Bandwidth will be filled with common ideas, verbose communication, and ambiguous jargon. In the future, information will become even more of a substitute for thought than it already is.

Many things can be done by tools that write for you, but they won’t help you learn to think or understand a problem with deep fluency. And you need deep fluency to solve hard problems.

A world of common thinking available on demand will tempt people to outsource their thinking and disproportionately reward people who don’t. In the future, clear thinking will become more valuable, not less.

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

@DStvCare Long Buffering. 360p or lower quality. Unwatchable. For long periods of time. This is not an exception for this final, I have come to believe its a feature. I have the same problem on Dstvnow on iPad and on Android TV. To be fair the Android app is slightly less terrible.

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

@dstv and @SuperSportTV your product is unwatchable on streaming. Not for the first, second or third time. The URC Final is sheer frustration. I will make sure not to trust @dstv in the future for any important sporting event. #BlockBusterDSTV #URC #GrandFinal

[Riaan Fourie @RiaanFourieZA]

@DStv going to be losing many rugby supporters watching from home tonight using DSTV Now.

Freezing for 5min at a time. Only streaming service I know of with such terrible service.

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

@Roodeberg_Wine - I really enjoy your wine, however when the cork breaks in three and chopsticks r needed to rescue the situation (accompanied with a cloth 4 spillage)- it does change things. Please match the quality of your wine with a quality cork. #whenWineKillsTheVibe

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Accumulated creators experience and continuous sharpening counts.

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

So many different applications of ChatGPT. So many brilliant things possible and so many spaces that are unknown and unexplored and possibly scary or exciting or both. Hold on tight.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Imagine a multi-billion dollar client who refused to pay you for good work rendered. Most people would turn to lawyers

I turned to ChatGPT

Here's the story of how I recovered $109,500 without spending a dime on legal fees:

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Powerful. What if every negative or stressful event you are experiencing right now could be for the "last time"?

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

At the most simple level a belief is an idea we said yes to at some point in some way. Just like we outgrow hairstyles, fashions, fairy tales and ways of work, we also need to actively outgrow beliefs that no longer serve us. h/t @juliagalef

[Polina M. Pompliano @polinapompliano]

“Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.”

— Julia Galef

https://t.co/CXpjM1Y5XT

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Find your combination of rest in 2023... It's super hard to sustainably be your best on a half tank...

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

How to avoid burnout in 2023.

Get 7 types of rest:

[Tim Goodenough @TimGoodenoughZA]

Powerful strategy. Recommended as an option for those of you who reflect deeply as part of a new years resolution process. I know I will be using this in the next few weeks. 👏🏼

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

At the end of every year, I conduct a personal Annual Review.

7 simple questions (that may change your life):