implementation

But from the perspective of Alibaba and JD, the motivation is broader. Instant delivery is increasingly becoming the way consumers interact with local commerce. If you control the app people open whenever they need something quickly, you control an important part of daily life. That position brings data, merchant relationships, and habit formation

combining objects of the same generic group that do not cluster towards a common centre; no more should we attempt to compose generic portraits out of heterogeneous elements, for if we do so the result is monstrous and meaningless.”

we actually do is determined by the net product of those forces. If the promoting pressures overcome the inhibiting pressures, we act. If the inhibiting pressures are stronger, we don’t. And both sides are equally responsible for the ultimate behavior: we can never say people don’t act because of a lack of promoting pressure, because it could

Schedule a time in the day for memory training and practice—whether you feel like it or not.

National Academy of Sciences has gone on the record, saying that “the Federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national security risks because the test results are too inaccurate.” With as little as fifteen minutes of training, people have been able to

And we should never forget that potent combination of mindfulness and motivation.

Steps would be the following:

1. Start with a Central Idea:

   
   
   

   • Begin your mind map with a core concept, like a company name or an industry.




2. Branch Out Naturally:

   
   
   

   • From this center, draw main branches for major categories (e.g., business, competitive advantage, etc.).

   
   
   

   • Each branch can then split into sub-branches.




3. Use Keywords and Images:

   
   
   

   • Replace

No, the difficulty is not the lack of ideas. The difficulty is to develop a taste for which strategy is suitable for your personal circumstances and goals, and which ones look viable even before you devote the time to diligently backtest them. This taste for prospective strategies is what I will try to convey in this chapter.

Tropics, sickness, injury: take them together, as pieces of a greater picture, and voilà. Afghanistan. Each observation is taken in context and in tandem with the others—not just as a stand-alone piece but as something that contributes to an integral whole.