Our tendency to equate the quality of our decision with the outcome is called resulting.

If you want to learn from decisions, you need to make the invisible thought process as visible and open to scrutiny as possible. The following safeguard can help:

A bad process can never produce a good decision. Sure, it might result in a good outcome, but that’s different from making a good decision.

When it comes to the gym, going every day is easier than going some days.

The capacity for combinatorial solutions isn’t reserved for the gifted. It’s a skill that can be learned and used; it’s just a skill that goes untaught. The key is learning to live with the uncomfortable tension between opposing ideas long enough to see that there’s a solution that combines the best elements of both. And that’s what integrative thi

Mistakes turn into anchors if you don’t accept them.

“Let us prepare our minds as if we had come to the very end of life,” Seneca said.

the transparency principle: Make your decision-making process as visible and open to scrutiny as possible.

We’ll never be exceptional at anything unless we raise our standards, both of ourselves and of what’s possible.