Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
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
When you have a superpower, you receive tremendous praise that feeds your superpower. Your strengths create such an aura that your colleagues, your peers, and even your boss will look past any shortcomings or bad habits that need development.
They assume it’ll go away naturally or it’s erroneous or too inconsistent to raise the issue, even... See more
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Nikhyl Singhal • Open Doors in Your Career by Unlocking the Dark Side of Your Superpower
his book The Folly of Fools, Trivers argues that a contradiction lies at the heart of human intelligence. Our brains are simultaneously designed to seek out information and destroy that information after we acquire it. Specifically, our minds evolved to make sense of the world not in ways that are true, but in ways that help us survive. But once
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“autotelic personality,” or the ability to create flow experiences even in the most barren environment—an almost inhumane workplace, a weed-infested urban neighborhood.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
“The future,” wrote C. K. Brightbill, “will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
measure creativity using three primary criteria: fluency (the number of ideas we generate), flexibility (how diverse the ideas are), and originality (how novel an idea is).
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
After the ’98 Masters tournament, Woods was disappointed that he did not repeat his win of the previous year, but he felt good about his top-ten finish: “I squeezed the towel dry this week. I’m very proud of the way I hung in there.” Or after a British Open, where he finished third: “Sometimes you get even more satisfaction out of creating a score
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