Kevin

The Protocols

by Jocko Willink via The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocol.

1. I will take care of my physical health by exercising, eating properly, and getting the rest I need to recover and rebuild. I will take care of my physical surroundings, keeping them in order.

2. I will develop myself mentally by reading, writing, drawing, building, creating,

Set Your Default to Curiosity

• Default to curiosity, not animosity.

• Approach disagreements with curiosity for a better life.

Reduce Your Power to Increase Your Empathy

• Increase your effectiveness (increasing your ability to take someone else's perspective) by decreasing your feelings of power (resisting the temptation to do the opposite)

  • powerful people are terrible at taking others' perspectives because they can afford to be

  • powerless people are excellent at taking others'

Explanations During Conflict are (mostly) Useless

• It doesn’t matter how good your explanation of something is. People will judge you on your “what” not your “why.” 

  • See: Target’s rollback of DEI framed as “years in the making - based on data”

Compounding Exponential Growth

via How People Think

• Evolution’s superpower is not just selecting favorable traits. That part is so tedious, and if it’s all you focus on you’ll be skeptical and confused. Most species’ change in any millennia is so trivial it’s unnoticeable.

• The real magic of evolution is that it’s been selecting traits for 3.8 bil

Rare events aren’t as rare as you’d think.

via How People Think

• We are blind to how fragile the world is due to a poor understanding of rare events.

• John Littlewood was a mathematician who sought to debunk the idea of miracles being anything more than simple statistics. Physicist Freeman Dyson explains: Littlewood’s law of miracles states th

People know better than they act.

via How People Think

• The gap between knowing what to do and actually getting people to do it can be enormous.

• She explained that becoming a better doctor meant spending more time managing her patients rather than managing those patients’ illnesses. There is a huge difference, she said, between an expert in medici