Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language...
Aim for the Heart, Not the Head Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once yo...
After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this wouldn’t be a mainstream success. So I did a...
After four weeks, we tallied the results. His average monthly fat loss had gone from roughly 5 lbs to 18.75 lbs, a 275% increase. He’d tripled his fat loss by spending less than two minutes consuming...
A problem is a terrible thing to waste. This is highly related to the scratch your own itch thread that pops up throughout this book. Peter expands: I think of problems as gold mines. The world’s bigg...
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take or...
A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it becomes easy once you get exposed to enough peop...
7. «Si quieres mejorar, debe satisfacerte que te consideren necio y estúpido.» — Epicteto
5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.
2. Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-...
1) To get huge, good things done, you need to be okay with letting the small, bad things happen. 2) People’s IQs seem to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them...
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized 1 or 2 strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. You don’t succeed becau...
#2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math.
#1—It doesn’t matter how many people don’t get it. What matters is how many people do.
#11—What if I could only subtract to solve problems? From 2008 to 2009, I began to ask myself, What if I could only subtract to solve problems? when advising startups. Instead of answering, What shoul...
Él parte esos nueve o diez minutos en tres segmentos. Éste es un resumen abreviado:
Él defiende los suplementos de magnesio. Nuestra capacidad para almacenar magnesio con unos riñones sanos es muy elevada. Él toma de 600 a 800 mg al día, alternando entre sulfato de magnesio y óxido d...
¿NO HAS ENCONTRADO TU OBJETIVO GENERAL, ÚNICO EN LA VIDA? TAL VEZ NO SEA NECESARIO «Olvídate de tener un propósito. Está bien ser feliz sin tenerlo. La persecución de un propósito único ha arruinado m...
¿Idiota? Por supuesto [comerse solo una tarta gigante empalagosa sólo por que él la había hecho]. Creo que no se puede ser más idiota. Este es un ejemplo ridículo y a pequeñísima escala de lo que cont...
«Y no te limites a tener equipos de respaldo, ten también un plan de respaldo