Mental Models
by Hasan Riaz · updated 1mo ago
Mental Models
by Hasan Riaz · updated 1mo ago
Roger Federer on how art can be a byproduct of a commitment to a different goal:
"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war."
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Miles Cannon-Brookes on the importance of disagreement within teams (especially applicable to team leaders):
"Disagreement with seniority in a constructive way usually shows that the team has their shit together. It means that they know more than you do and that's good. They inevitably should know more than I do."
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Shane Parrish (Farnam Street) on getting out of your comfort zone:
"No one grows up saying I want to do the same thing everyone else is doing. And yet there is a comfort to surrounding yourself with people who agree with you, or who are doing the same thing you’re doing."
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Hubris Hypothesis (wsj) - bragging helps your career as long as you tell the truth, avoid belittling others and acknowledge the challenges you’ve faced through your journey
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Ryan Holiday (Tucker Max’s consultant, later stoic author, “Trust Me I’m Lying”) on how adding exceptions to a preconceived belief is easier than updating that belief:
“Once the mind has accepted a plausible explanation for something, it becomes a framework for all the information that is perceived after it. We’re drawn, subconsciously, to fit and c
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Identity Foreclosure: Dedication to an identity or set of values prematurely and without compromise. Those with identity foreclosure accept the values that others like parents, coaches, siblings, or instructors have placed on them without considering other roles or visions for themselves they might prefer. This can psychologically cut you off from
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Jeff Bezos on how to delegate some types of decisions (2-way doors), while spending majority of your time & resources on the others (1-way doors):
“Some decisions are consequential and irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. We can call these Type
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Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality. But you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality". This is an apt analogy for over-motivated marketing/sales folks trying to optimize for the short-term, at the expense of fixing the real underlying (product) issue, or those who are gaming scorecards, rather than focusing on true financial bottom-line.
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Know what game you're playing in life: A lot of mistakes come from copying people who are playing a different game than you (Morgan Housel)
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Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field (Walter Isaacson):
While Jobs was attending Reed College, Robert Friedland "taught Steve the reality distortion field." The RDF was said to be Jobs's ability to convince himself, and others around him, to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement, and persi
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