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Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
When you take a job take a long look at the people you're going to be working with-because the odds are you're going to become like them; they are not going to become like you. You can't change them. If it doesn't fit who you are, it's not going to work.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Eric Barker • 104 highlights
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Author Stephen Covey says, “A leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, ‘Wrong jungle!’”
John C. Maxwell • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
Your mistakes aren’t the best teacher—just the most expensive.
— Farnham Street
Generic, uncontextualized advice is a menace- by definition it attracts the lost and the confused and only makes them more lost and more confused. Even the seemingly most universal, failsafe advice of the ‘work hard’, ‘try your best’, and ‘believe in yourself’ ilk, can be disastrous for certain people. It can merely act as a motivator and energy bo... See more
Thomas Bevan • On The Futility of Offering Advice
Mistaking Detours for Dead Ends: How Your 'Failed' Business Attempts Are Actually Guideposts
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