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It means that I always read with an eye towards possible connections in the slip-box.

It’s what’s known as the classic cocktail party effect: one mention of your name, and neural systems that were sailing along snap into action. You don’t even have to do any work. Most things don’t have such nicely built-in flags to alert you to their significance. You need to teach your mind to perk up, as if it were hearing your name, but absent

rice paddies also require a lot of work—twice as much as wheat. And that work is almost year-round: preparing paddies, raising seedlings in nurseries, transplanting every single seedling by hand into flooded fields, managing water, pumping it, [3] weeding, [4] harvesting, and threshing—often followed by a second rice crop or a winter crop. These

Opportunity Accelerators (Your Rocket Fuel):

• The connector who hosts private dinners where deals happen

• The decision-maker who controls the budget for your dream client

• The leader two levels above you is looking for someone with your skills

• The gatekeeper who decides who gets on stage at your industry’s main event

“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”

It also entails understanding something very specific: a situation (in its broadest sense, be it mental, physical, or something as un-situation-like as an empty room) is inherently dynamic. And you, by the very action of entering into it, shift it from what it was before your arrival to something altogether different.

Pilots are tightly scoped interventions that we expect not to work (remember, we have to explicitly prove efficacy as a defense against confirmation bias), so we use small populations, focus on speed to market, and do them in an operationally dirty way. Besides being fun to say, “operationally dirty” just means that we’re shooting for minimal

To think like Sherlock Holmes, we must want, actively, to think like him.

Curiosity: Questions are the answer to improving curiosity. Before you start reading or learning anything, ask yourself motivational questions. Most people ask questions that don’t move them to action.