I need to ask you a serious question.

Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

That question might look familiar to you if you’ve ever seen the cartoon show Animaniacs (I think they just removed it from Netflix :/ ). They had a mini show within the show called Pinky and the Brain.

The show was named after two mice — one a genius (Brain, just to be clear) and the other insane based on how the theme song describes them. And every episode Brain would turn to Pink with thoughts of world domination and ask Pinky…

“Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”

And without fail, Pinky would miss the mark by a country mile with a reply like “I think so Brain, but if you replace the ‘P’ with an ‘O’, my name would be Oinky, wouldn’t it?”

And Brain would have to set him straight that his mind was on taking over the world (again). Classic.

Anyway, here’s why this is important.

So here we are in the year 2020 and no flying cars or jetpacks.

That’s the first thing I thought entering the new year. The second thing I thought was I hate New Years resolutions. You should too.

And here’s why…

I was reading an email from Ramit Sethi this morning and he shared something from an interview that I HAD to share.

I came across this Harvard Business Review article on Linkedin a few days ago talking about the differences between how men and women search for jobs.

Apparently, men apply for jobs when they think they’re 60% confident and women don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the requirements.

Why do you think that is?

Here’s something I that caught my eye recently in the Wall St Journal. MBA applications are down fire the fifth straight year. You know why?

The journal didn’t say all of this but if you take a close look you’ll see you can break down the answer into three parts. Part of it is due to higher hurdles in the immigration / visa process.