Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
First, tackle them when we’re in a good mood. A 2016 study found that when people are upset, they’re less likely to try to do hard things. When they’re feeling upbeat, however, they’re more likely to take on the hard-but-essential tasks that ultimately make life better. One way we can get ourselves in the right mindset is to do what’s called
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coming. “Being right and ineffective in venture is not worth very much,”
Sebastian Mallaby • The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
“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
Since then, the U.S. government has launched dozens of other efforts to improve our diets. For example, there was the “Five a Day” campaign, intended to encourage people to eat five fruits or vegetables, the USDA’s food pyramid, and a push for low-fat cheeses and milks. None of them adhered to the committee’s findings. None tried to camouflage
... See moreCharles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Trusting Your Gut
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
Stay SaaSy • Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head
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
desireless activities, when undertaken and performed in a spirit of dedication, purify us, and the intellect thereby gains a new keenness. Out of such a purified head, a new faculty, as it were, arises. The capacity to observe oneself as an actor on the stage of life, is a capacity divine and noble, inasmuch as it immediately redeems us from our
... See moreSwami Chinmayananda • The Holy Geeta
Just ‘going with the flow’ drains the purpose from your work and life, makes personal and professional relationships seem tenuous and uncertain, and almost guarantees that you’ll fail to live with intention. All this means you may not accomplish things you’d really like to accomplish.
Susan David • Emotional Agility
Develop Your Communication Skills One often‐neglected skill set that can boost your career is your ability to communicate well, in both speaking and writing. How many rambling, poorly composed emails do you see these days? How many take you through the confusion and hell of the writer's mind? How many announcements do you read that bury the real
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