NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE. —Anne Lamott
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. And
It was a classic straddled strategy of attempting to invest in everything at once. The result was that while I was not entirely failing in any pursuit I was not entirely succeeding at any either. I so...
Innovator’s Dilemma, was
If you could do only one thing with your life right now, what would you do?
Here’s another paradox for you: the faster and busier things get, the more we need to build thinking time into our schedule. And
¿Y si fuera a Stanford a estudiar un posgrado? Ya
Scientists have explained that every habit is made up of a cue, a routine, and a reward. The
Poet Mary Oliver wrote: Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?
El éxito nos puede distraer de enfocarnos en las cosas esenciales que producen éxito en primer lugar.
Will this activity or effort make the highest possible contribution toward my goal? Part One of this book will help you figure out what those activities are.
Thomas Sowell wrote: There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
There are three deeply entrenched assumptions we must conquer to live the way of the Essentialist: I have to, It’s all important, and I can do both.
The way of the Essentialist, on the other hand, is to use the good times to create a buffer for the bad. Norway
The Nonessentialist tends to always assume a best-case scenario.
One leader at Twitter once asked me: Can you remember what it was like to be bored? It doesn’t happen anymore.
Imagine a neighbour who never waters his lawn. But whenever you turn on your sprinkler system, the water falls on his lawn. Your grass is turning brown and dying, but Bill looks down at his green gras...
If the answer isn’t a definite yes then it should be a no.
German words: Weniger aber besser. The English translation is: Less but better.
Sunk-cost bias.