Tom Peters is still reinventing himself. His most recent book is The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence.
To quote the industrial statistician George Box: Every model is wrong, but some are useful.
Tim’s TED Talk, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator,
Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
This is very similar to Derek Sivers’s (page 184) Don’t be a donkey rule. In a world of distraction, single-tasking is a superpower.
This is the best thing you’re ever going to learn in SEAL training.’ We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you’re a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minim...
This is a story about a tiger named Mohini that was in captivity in a zoo, who was rescued from an animal sanctuary. Mohini had been confined to a 10-by-10-foot cage with a concrete floor for 5 or 10...
There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. –Seneca
The word cellulite, for example, first appeared in the April 15, 1968, issue of Vogue magazine, and this invented disease soon had a believer base worldwide: Vogue began to focus on the body as much a...
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, elite athletes, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized one or two strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. You don’t s...
The quality of your life is the quality of your questions.
The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.
The more you run from your fears, the bigger they get, but the more you go into them, the more they tend to vanish like a mirage.
The key to a great life is simply having a bunch of great days. So you can think about it one day at a time. Mr. Money Mustache
The Conquest of Happiness
The Art of Possibility, de Rosamund Stone Zander
THE VALUE OF 5–10-MINUTE BREAKS The serial position effect refers to improved recall observed at the beginnings and ends of lists. Separately, these are called the primacy effect and recency effect, r...
Sure, that sounds kinda cool, I’d say, dropping it in the calendar. Later, I’d pay the price of massive distraction and overwhelm. My agenda became a list of everyone else’s agendas. Saying yes to too...
Si prestas un servicio, en este apartado aprenderás a transformar tus habilidades en una mercancía que se pueda enviar para escapar de las limitaciones que impone el modelo de ganancia por horas.
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger