
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Recommended Book
...Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something...
...Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something...
...It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence...
...The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal you must 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move or your brain will stop you...
...If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it...
...Most tasks require a combination of bonding and bridging: flashes of inspiration to identify the right approach, and long effort characterized by selfless teamwork to put it into practice...
...Lateral thinking doesn’t replace hard work; it eliminates unnecessary cycles...
...Top performers understand their field at a higher level than average performers do, and thus have a superior structure for remembering information about it...
...Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE...
...Good habits are important, but it’s often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential...
...The joy of the task was its own reward...
...The single greatest challenge any organization will face is . . . success...
...Some groups are subject to Agenda Inertia, a force that concentrates focus on issues already in the plan...
...Every significant choice we make in life comes with some uncertainty...
...John Wooden - You will never outperform your inner circle. If you want to achieve outer success, improve your inner circle...
...Simple rules work best when flexibility matters more than consistency...
...Babies are the model of how we learn—not by passive reaction to the environment but by active testing through observation, hypothesis, experiment, and conclusion...
...The more complex you make the model the worse the forecast gets...
...Every really good, really experienced CEO I know shares one important characteristic: They tend to opt for the hard answer to organizational issues...
...An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it...
...Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another...