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It means that I always read with an eye towards possible connections in the slip-box.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
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
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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
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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
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
“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.”
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
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.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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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
... See moreMatt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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To think like Sherlock Holmes, we must want, actively, to think like him.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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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.