Readwise Highlights

Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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

“Let’s put price off to the side for a moment and talk about what would make this a good deal.”

Being productive is about occupying your time—filling your schedule to the brim and getting as much as you can. Being effective is about finding more of your time unoccupied and open for other things besides work. Time for leisure, time for family and friends. Or time for doing absolutely nothing.

When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out the window.

Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals, vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.

Isaiah 54:2–3:

Enlarge the place of your tent,

and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;

do not hold back; lengthen your cords

and strengthen your stakes.

For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,

and your offspring will possess the nations

and will people the desolate cities.