personal values
Stuart Evans and
personal values
I don't play zero-sum games.
I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in order for me to win, or vice versa I chose to opt out of that game completely.
- Tiago Forte on X
Here are three ways to learn about your values: (1) ask yourself how you believe in treating a certain person in your life, and to try to answer using adverbs or adverbial phrases. (2) examine your emotions, asking what each emotion says is important to you. (3) examine your plans and choices for reasons, and to keep asking “why” until the reason g... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values
I don’t believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It’s the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it’s just to convince myself again that I’m not missing a lot.
Red Bull’s billionaire founder - Colossus
relatable - from the founder of RedBull
how to make a complete map of everything you think
He believed a handshake agreement among gentlemen was sufficient and regularly did business with no written contract.
Red Bull’s billionaire founder - Colossus
the founder of RedBull - Dietrich Mateschitz. my style too.
"Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired.”
“Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness"
Chris Sacca
Values — like policies, plans, and goals — are heuristics to help us avoid an infinite calculation each time we want to act. Instead of calculating in each conversation, at each moment, what to reveal and what to conceal, a person adopts the general value of being honest, by default. So, values are a form of knowledge about what works in general, o... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values
A “life of meaning” is simply one in which one’s particular values are tested, extended, and expressed.