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being happy and getting what you want are not about future risks and unknowns or whether you picked the right alternatives; it’s about how you choose and how you live your choices once they’re made.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
He urges individuals—and parents especially—to abandon the desire for instant gratification and easy answers as early performance on tests isn’t an indicator of professional success. He emphasizes traits over particular skills—be curious, flexible, open-minded, adventurous, experimental, and playful. Try and fail and try again. Explore. Read outsid... See more
Quartz • To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
It’s all about living coherently, which means living in tune with what you value.
Dave Evans • Designing Your New Work Life
Keith Stanovich, aprofessor of psychology, likes to distinguish between intelligence quotient (IQ), which measures mentalskills that are real and helpful in cognitive tasks, and rationality quotient (RQ), the ability to make gooddecisions. His claim is that the overlap between these abilities is much lower than most people think.
Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors
repeated, attribute by attribute
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Make good decisions. Be aware of your own decision-making process, review good and bad decisions, and learn from both.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
The second flaw is ego.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Glass correctly identifies “taste” as critical for achieving quality.