questions are the guide to life
dear Nick thanks for sending along the update you and Zach have made the right choice I predict you will find life is just beginning best regards Warren E Buffett
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Relates to the one big question that Not Boring wrote about
I got life changing advice last week.
He just sold his company and got invited for a talk. Was asked tons of audience questions on business strategies, getting acquired etc
His reply was “The best advice I can give you is to answer these two questions for yourself everyday and take action ... See more
“The piece is developing a compelling argument about how the right question can generate almost supernatural persistence .
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?
Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.
Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center
Research requires commitment to evidence, broadly defined. In the sciences, this might involve running experiments and quantitatively analyzing the results; in the humanities, this might involve translating or transcribing primary sources and qualitatively interrogating them. (But this is oversimplifying things: the “sciences” and the “humanities”
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Why did I want to join a startup to figure out if all the things I had learnt actually worked? I wanted evidence for my research. The only way to find the answer was to join a startup
“How do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?”
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Graham Duncan, Investor
Graham has made an art of understanding people – Patrick introduced him by saying that his “reputation was as the most discerning people picker on Wall Street” – and in his essay, he writes that one of the best ways to do that is to see what kinds of questions they ask:
It also helps to have the candidate you’re trying to see clearly ask you questions. Questions have very high signal value compared to most anything else you can get from a candidate… I write down each question and sometimes respond with “I’ll answer, but first I’m curious, why did you ask that?” I’m looking for the felt sense of a “hungry mind” based on the way their questions flow. That’s very hard to fake.
One of the enemies of sound, lifelong motivation is a rather childish conception we have of the kind of concrete, describable goal toward which all of our efforts drive us. We want to believe that there is a point at which we can feel that we have arrived. We want a scoring system that tells us when we've piled up enough points to count ourselves s
... See moreJohn Gardner • Personal Renewal
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. [1]
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Clayton Christensen speaking to Jason Fried
the mind has the same power of persuasion, conviction and even manipulation towards ourselves that it does towards the world.
What does this mean?
It means that you can convince yourself that stories and narratives are ‘true’ when they are not, in fact, actually true. It means that you can be just as convincing towards yourself as you can towards o
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