Readwise Highlights

Without clarity, there’s nothing to focus on. Without clarity, there’s no sanity.

flushing out the Black Swans—and exploiting them. Remember, your counterpart might not even know how important the information is, or even that they shouldn’t reveal it. So keep pushing, probing, and gathering information.

Parents, we need to be their greatest supportive coach. It is our job to be the coach that we always wanted. Our actions shape their beliefs. We are the greatest influence on our children’s lives and in their development, stability, attitudes, likes, and dislikes. Children watch everything we do and learn by modeling behaviors and beliefs about

why you should invest: To save for your future self. To preserve your money against inflation. To replace your human capital with financial capital.

“Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man” (Eccles. 12:13).

Once you’re consistently meeting the expectations of the majority of your customers, you’ve already done the most economically valuable thing you can do.

Work is not some post-fall aberration. Work is a blessing (1:28). Work is a gift. And work is intrinsic to the human creature because it is intrinsic to the Creator himself.

God works, and it follows that because we are made in his image (Genesis 1:26-27), we work too.

You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.

The Impact Filter, as a one-page document, solves this most pervasive leadership conundrum, and is comprised of the following questions: What is the project? Purpose: What do you want to accomplish? Importance: What’s the biggest difference this will make? Ideal Outcome: What does the completed project look like? Best Result: If you do take action?