Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
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
that my deepest and most important work, professionally and personally, is still to come,
Edith Eger • The Choice
trust hierarchy to build relationships
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
When problems are really tough, we need to get drawing. We draw to see what we think, in order to evaluate those ideas.
Christina Wodtke • Pencil Me In
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
They assume it’ll go away naturally or it’s erroneous or too inconsistent to raise the issue, even... See more
Nikhyl Singhal • Open Doors in Your Career by Unlocking the Dark Side of Your Superpower
Superforecasters’ online interactions are exercises in extremely polite antagonism, disagreeing without being disagreeable.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Everyone should write. Why? Because everyone is full of ideas they’re not aware of. This means they’re also unaware of the value of their ideas, and this value can only be unlocked via writing.
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How Behavioral Science Can Help Us Find Meaning in Our Work
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