Tom Schmidt

Commission teaches lessons in days, and omission teaches lessons in decades

He’s not managing to his idiosyncratic preferences. He’s managing to outcomes. And he’s constantly tackling the limiting factor: whatever constraint is slowing progress gets his full attention until it’s solved.

Questions attract, drive, and distinguish.

“‘It’s dark because you’re trying too hard,’ said Susila. ‘Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. “Lightly, child, lightly. You’ve got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things... See more

“I think people retweet things when they see something that they haven’t figured out how to say yet, but they knew in their head, but it’s just implicit—it hadn’t been made explicit.” – Nivi

Bill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling:

"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."

Source: Bill Bernbach Said...

Rules about overthinking: You can’t think your way out of a feeling problem, overthinking is under-feeling, your brain ruminates because it hates uncertainty so much that it would rather fantasize a catastrophe than deal with uncertainty, whatever you fear creates the boundaries of your freedom, the more you think about yourself the harder it is to... See more

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many