Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.
Dr. Adam Grant, professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, says this is because J. J. Abrams is a giver, a rarity in an industry full of takers. No...
Lateral thinking doesn’t replace hard work; it eliminates unnecessary cycles.
When we hear a story, the neural activity increases fivefold, like a switchboard has suddenly illuminated the city of our mind.
My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing, he explains. It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the oth...
Simplification often makes the difference between good and amazing.
Creativity comes easier within constraints.
If you want people to buy your product, you have to get them to care about your story.
You can accelerate your training if you know how to train properly, but you still don’t need to be that special. I don’t think I’m that special of a programmer or a businessperson or a race car driver...
Mentorship is the secret of many of the highest-profile achievers throughout history.
In an age of platforms, creative problem solving is more valuable than computational skill. To
Michelle Phan grew up in California with her Vietnamese parents. The classic American immigrant story of the impoverished but hardworking parents who toil to create a better life for the next generati...
I see this book as a simultaneous hat tip and counterpoint to some of the great success and innovation literature out there (check out shanesnow.com/ booklist for my recommendations). It’s a re-analys...
They called the results a paradox of failure. It turns out that the surgeons who botched the new procedure tended to do worse in subsequent surgeries. Rather than learning from their mistakes, their s...
Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition, Dane tells me. However, his research shows that, while logging hours of practice helps us see patterns subconsciously, we can often do just...
New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based (in this case: it’s that you can only help one person).
Traditional paths are not just slow; they’re no longer viable if we want to compete and innovate.
Counterintuitively, however, Informal mentoring, Underhill found, produced a larger and more significant effect on career outcomes than formal mentoring.
OFTEN, THE THING HOLDING us back from success is our inability to say no.
They have so much money that they have nothing to prove to anyone. And many of them are totally depressed.
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