Amit Cohen
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Amit Cohen
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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52-Brilliant-Questions
A compilation of thought-provoking questions designed to encourage self-reflection, personal growth, and meaningful conversations, curated by Michael Bungay Stanier and contributions from various well-known individuals.
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When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
Programmable attention
Optimistic vs pessimistic approach to life
“I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to
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The Tarzan Method in Career Development
So it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke Palesti... See more