Amelia loves doing training runs in the rain and cold, as she knows her competition is probably opting out. This is an example of rehearsing the worst-case scenario to become more resilient
Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer.
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) You should taste the food as you go, which a surprisingly small number of people do; and B) salt and olive oil actually are cheating and they’re secret weapons and they always work. Audiogon
A great amount of software will make outbound connections to the Internet, typically for legitimate purposes, though not necessarily. If you wish to prevent or at least learn when an application is do...
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...
5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.
18. Notice how I take you out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it’s implicit. Normally, you make priorities clear sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other,...
Who do you think of when you hear the word successful? The first people who come to mind are the real heroes of Task Unit Bruiser: Marc Lee, first SEAL killed in Iraq. Mike Monsoor, second SEAL killed...
#6—Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, and you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted.—Colin Powell
#2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math.
#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...
¿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...
«Hay un proceso en el que una vez que despejas la mente, tienes que dejar que vuelva a llenarse. Lo llamarás de otra manera, pero yo sé que lo haces. Así que la dejas en blanco, y dejas que se inunde...
Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing that person who’s struggling to lose weight who thinks that they need to run 20 miles a week. They have no desire to do it, their knees hurt, they hate it, and...
I’m old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn’t have the word ‘pivot.’ We didn’t have a fancy word for it. We just called...
In other words, you can spend all day undermining other people, and even if you’re right, who cares? Anybody can talk about why something’s bad. Try doing something good.
Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you’re dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the...