Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Don’t let someone else’s urgency become your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. The important should be your king. Down with the tyranny of the urgent!

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

Don’t be the best. Be the only.

Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgmen

Criticize in private, praise in public.

A problem that can easily be solved with money is not really a problem because its solution is obvious. Focus on problems with non-obvious solutions.

You lead by letting others know what you expect of them which may exceed what they themselves expect. Provide them a reputation that they can step up to.

Looking ahead, focus on direction rather than destinations.

Take the stairs.

Finite games are played to win or lose. Infinite games are played to keep the game going. Seek out infinite games because they yield unlimited rewards.