Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
when humans are pressured into forming an opinion, they’ll often react by spouting babble that has little basis in fact or reason. Essentially, people tend not to have an opinion on something until they’re prompted for one, at which point they just hastily make one up. To make matters worse, humans don't like to change their opinion, as they think
... See moregurwinder.substack.com • The Opinion Pageant
In Adam Grant’s latest book Hidden Potential, he discusses the difference between burnout and boreout:
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
Be a Good Citizen As you assemble your network of support, be careful not to adopt a “take” mentality. Wharton professor Adam Grant has explored the roles of “givers” and “takers” in his research.
Amy Jen Su • The Leader You Want to Be
Second, we must give our brains the right amount of autonomy. When we have a choice, our brains often want to default to something easy. But we can mitigate that response by challenging ourselves to be innovative and provide incentives. For example, instead of debating whether to make a healthy choice at lunch, ask yourself: Do I want this fresh
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Great thinkers don’t harbor doubts because they’re impostors. They maintain doubts because they know we’re all partially blind and they’re committed to improving their sight.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“What’s preventing you from achieving your ten-year goals inside of six months?” — Peter Thiel
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
Alex Banks • Sunday Signal: Tesla’s new Optimus demo, random walks and Steve Jobs’ career advice
Deep analogical thinking is the practice of recognizing conceptual similarities in multiple domains or scenarios that may seem to have little in common on the surface.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
but if there is one skill that stands out, it’s the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
even if people have a fixed mindset, they’re not always in that mindset. In fact, in many of our studies, we put people into a growth mindset. We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people
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