Suck Less
All the time and energy you spend fixing your unforced errors comes at the expense of moving toward the outcomes you want. There is a huge advantage in having more of your energy instead go toward achieving your goals instead of fixing your problems. The person who learns how to think clearly ultimately applies more of their overall effort toward t
... See moreShane Parrish • Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
TAKE THE HIT AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE Acknowledge Your Failings: You don’t have to shout them from the rooftops, but you have to at least be honest with yourself. When you haven’t lived up to your full potential, “take the hit” and admit your failing. Don’t beat yourself up, just admit your error, learn from it, and make a commitment to do better
... See moreDan Rust • Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things
Similarly, to cross the cringe minefield, you need to have humility about the fact that your perception is distorted, right now. You simply cannot see the landscape of options in your life objectively. By default, you will ignore a path to your dreams if a personally perilous emotion—worthlessness, loneliness, imperfection—is along the way. If you ... See more
Cate Hall • Crossing the cringe minefield
Instead, we can try inverting the goal. It becomes, not getting rich, but avoiding being poor. Instead of trying to divine the decisions that will bring wealth, we first try to eliminate those behaviors that are guaranteed to erode