You Can’t Math Your Way to Success
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You Can’t Math Your Way to Success
Some of the most important topics are the hardest to teach, and real world experience is the only school. How to advertise your skills and accomplishments without being insufferable. How to be curious about fields that have nothing to do with your career. How to deal with a certain level of hassle and nonsense without losing your cool. How to balan... See more
Morgan Housel • Very Important and Hard to Teach
What we most need to know is how to give our kids the values and skills to succeed as adults. We also have to face the massive cultural shifts over the past few years—especially technological changes and how those changes impact our parenting. How will our children succeed in the age of robots and artificial intelligence? How will they thrive in th
... See moreEsther Wojcicki • How to Raise Successful People
“Multiple iterations,” Skillman told the audience, “almost always beats single-minded focus around a single idea.” The people who were planning weren’t learning. The people who were trying and failing were.
Megan McArdle • The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
He urges individuals—and parents especially—to abandon the desire for instant gratification and easy answers as early performance on tests isn’t an indicator of professional success. He emphasizes traits over particular skills—be curious, flexible, open-minded, adventurous, experimental, and playful. Try and fail and try again. Explore. Read outsid... See more
Quartz • To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
3. Learn to think independently
Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.
Thinking from first principles and trying to generate new ideas is fun, and finding people to exchang... See more
Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.
Thinking from first principles and trying to generate new ideas is fun, and finding people to exchang... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
