In your personal or professional life, the equivalent of asking yourself which clothes you love is asking yourself, Will this activity or effort make the highest possible contribution towards my goal?
So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of t...
I had just learned a crucial lesson: certain types of effort yield higher rewards than others.
Hay muchas más actividades y oportunidades en el mundo que el tiempo y los recursos con que contamos para invertir en ellas.
For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
DEBATE UNTIL YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A REALLY CLEAR (NOT PRETTY CLEAR) ESSENTIAL INTENT Without clarity of purpose, Nonessentialist leaders straddle their strategy: they try to pursue too many objectives...
Clayton Christensen, the Harvard business professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, was once asked to make just such a sacrifice. At the time, he was working for a management consulting firm, a...
The authors found that the ones that executed most successfully did not have any better ability to predict the future than their less successful counterparts. Instead, they were the ones who acknowled...
Warren decided early in his career it would be impossible for him to make hundreds of right investment decisions, so he decided that he would invest only in the businesses that he was absolutely sure...
Understanding the overarching intent allows him to make the corrections that even Spielberg himself might not be able to verbalise.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we plu...
The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X or even 1,000X but by 10,000X.
Most people have heard of the Pareto Principle, the idea, introduced as far back as the 1790s by Vilfredo Pareto, that 20 per cent of our efforts produce 80 per cent of results. Much later,
Instead of spending our limited supply of discipline on making the same decisions again and again, embedding our decisions into our routine allows us to channel that discipline toward some other essen...
Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things...
In the many hours Geoff spent resting he came to see an interesting paradox in his addiction to achievement: for a type A personality, it is not hard to push oneself hard. Pushing oneself to the limit...
In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett and David Clark explain: Warren decided early in his career it would be impossible for him to make hundreds of right investment decisions, so he decided that...
His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. He
Have you ever felt stuck because you believed you did not really have a choice? Have you ever felt the stress that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory beliefs: I can’t do this and I ha...
HALF OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO SAYING YES TOO QUICKLY AND NOT SAYING NO SOON ENOUGH. —Josh Billings