Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
but we have at least a shot at getting what we strive, work, and fight for. Pick a field where you have a realistic chance of rising, and turn your less realistic passions—such as playing basketball, sailing, performing music, or painting—into hobbies for your free time.
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up
“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
The very concept of a limit implies that you can’t do everything you want—so we must think of smarter ways to work. Let’s be honest: Many of us don’t make this kind of adjustment until we are required to. Limits force us to rethink how we are working and push us to new heights of creativity.
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Chip and Dan Heath, in their book Decisive, outline four villains of decision-making that lead to poor decisions. The first villain is looking too narrowly at a problem. This is exactly why we want to explore multiple ways of framing the opportunity space. The second villain is looking for evidence that confirms our beliefs. This is commonly known
... See moreTeresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Stories that do carry some element of truth can actually be the most troublesome, because we put a lot of stock in ‘truth’, no matter how selective and partial it may be. Perhaps, as your classmates years ago never failed to point out during P. E. lessons, you were ‘bad’ at sports. Okay, but maybe you were bad at sports because you preferred
... See moreSusan David • Emotional Agility
There’s a cognitive bias that is coming into play when we do this. It’s called the curse of knowledge.55 Once we know something (like we do in this situation, we have a wealth of discovery work that supports our point of view), it’s hard for us to remember what it was like not to have that knowledge. In fact, our conclusions—our roadmaps, our
... See moreTeresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
True self-confidence is “the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
We can’t write off the danger of complacency, growing rigidity, imprisonment by our own comfortable habits and opinions. Look around you. How many people whom you know well — people even younger than yourselves –are already trapped in fixed attitudes and habits. A famous French writer said “There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in
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