#takeaways

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I meet with my mentor as and when he’s available. He manages my family’s money and he’s very good at what he does - his firm manages about $5 billion, and I have great conversations with him. 

I don’t want to talk too much about him, but he came from a lower middle class background and today is wealthy beyond comprehension. He could buy a plane or two in the middle of the night if he wanted. 

Today we focused a lot of personal growth in my career. 

He gave me two books - The Inheritors by Sonu Bhasin and Fortune’s Children by Arthur Vanderbilt.

Here are some brief takeaways: 

Work backwards from the outcome you want. 

Define the outcome of where you want to be and plan it backwards to your current position. 

2. Eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. 

Life is all about elimination. Don’t focus  on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths. Eliminate all the things you know you’re not good at, you have no interest in and that make you depressed. 

3. Intellectual honesty. 

Be honest with yourself about things you are good at and are not.  The easiest person to fool is yourself. 

4. Read one business biography a week. 

Everything you’re going in life, there’s a 99% chance someone else has gone through it and come out of it victorious. He also mentioned this article.

5. Outline 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses.

6. (In business/ corporate careers) You’re either primarily an investor (you’d rather fund companies and start ups than start them), an operator (you’d rather build something hands on), or a manager (you’d rather periodically manage something hands off. Like for instance you could have your own franchise bakery chain where you don’t need to exercise minute control over every franchise but you still ensure that there’s some managing done from your part). 

7. Do not have extreme ideologies at this age. 

Not when it comes to religion, politics, etc. 

8. Emotions, money and your time are something you need to be ruthless about. Absolutely ruthless. 

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George is self-medicating with laudanum, the most literary of opiates. His last scene with Bertha echoed Rhett and Scarlett’s last scene in GWTW. George was over it.

Shoot, the New York Heritage Society needed to have more than a job offer for Agnes. Hoping her money is restored at some point. It was a movingly earned moment when she gave Ada her seat at the head of the table.

Mrs. Scott cussed out Mrs. Kirkland without actually using curse words. Epic. And her husband and son didn’t hold back, either. Rev. Kirkland had to indignantly call his wife “Woman” to make his disapproval clear.

Peggy seeing William and that sudden slow-motion effect was a swooning moment. It was a portrayal of Black love that was breathtaking.

Yes, Black wealth was always a thing, especially when a community was allowed to flourish. Black people been knew. And depictions of it do exist (such as 1997’s Eve’s Bayou and 2010’s Jumping the Broom movies and the 1998 miniseries “The Wedding” based on Harlem Renaissance author Dorothy West’s book) but aren’t as grand and mainstream as this one.

Larian is back. But lying to “protect” someone is still some b.s. It seems the Russell men are prone to sulkiness when their women’s thinking don’t align with theirs.

The prospective lavender marriage between Oscar and Mrs. Winterton hints at heaps of messiness to come.

This episode was filmed and pretty much done before Gilded Age got the go-ahead for Season 4. So maybe a lot more was resolved than would have been.