Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
Research shows that the best way to deal with negativity is to observe it, without reaction and without judgment. Then consciously label each negative feeling and replace it with positive, compassionate, and solution-based thoughts.
Chris Voss • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Streak Wager A/B Test
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
How Streaks keep Duolingo learners committed to their language goals
Duolingo
One man calls another a fool, and at this the other stands up and clenches his fist and lands a blow on his nose. Look at the power of the word! There is a woman weeping and miserable; another woman comes along and speaks
to her a few gentle words, the doubled up frame of the weeping woman becomes straightened at once, her sorrow is gone and she
Swami Vivekananda • Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them—to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process filling the well.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
The only way for me to capture all of it—good ideas, priorities, roadblocks, the dates that people promised to deliver, and the major internal and external heartbeats ahead—was to take notes in every meeting. Longhand. Not on a computer. [See also: Figure 3.5.1, in Chapter 3.5.] Writing by hand was important for me. I wasn’t staring at a screen,
... See moreTony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard,” she once said.
Faster Than Normal™ • Estee Lauder, domain dependence, & moats
Estée Lauder
What would it mean to live more playfully? First, it would require us to reject work that is not intrinsically motivating and to build working conditions that are joyfully engaging. Second, it would require that we de-emphasise the importance of work for finding personal fulfilment and meaning in our lives. Despite work being central to who we are... See more
Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
