...further research has suggested that after people have gained power, they tend to behave like patients with damage to the brain’s orbitofrontal lobes. That is, the experience of wealth and power is akin to removing the part of the brain “critical to empathy and socially appropriate behavior.”...
...Like her idol Steve Jobs, she emitted a reality distortion field that forced people to momentarily suspend disbelief...
...When it comes to building great habits and ditching lazy ones, your commitment to staying focused on who you’re becoming regardless of where you are/who you are right now is the mightiest power you’ve got...
...Those who study positive psychology used to think that happy people were ones who were not under stress. They have since discovered that happiness is not correlated with a lack of stress or a perfect environment. It is correlated to the amount of accountability you accept in your life...
...Many did not succeed the first, second, or even third time they tried for a big goal. But they kept at it, they kept pushing....
...When your story is not clear, when it’s fragmented or overly complex, the audience has to work hard to make sense of it. Eventually, this hard work begins to produce first resistance, then irritation, and then loss of confidence...
...[Ed. note - Ok, this was an audio book in a long car ride with family]...
...Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest...
...The researchers found a middle ground by creating a model that was simple, but not simplistic. Throw away too much detail, and you explain nothing. Retain all the detail—same thing...We want a model that is just simple enough so that we can extract macro insights with confidence in their micro origins...
...Ideas are easy. Execution is everything...
...As options increase, the effort involved in making decisions increases, so mistakes hurt even more. Thus the growth of options and opportunities for choice has three, related, unfortunate effects. It means that decisions require more effort. It makes mistakes more likely. It makes the psychological consequences of mistakes more severe...
...Chop wood, carry water. Anchor up. “Yes, and.” Ignore the parts you can’t control...
...Delay is the greatest remedy for anger. Ask of your anger, at the outset, not to grant forgiveness but to exercise judgment. Its first impulses are harsh ones; it will relent if it waits. And don’t try to get rid of it all at once; it will be wholly defeated if it is carved away by pieces...
...The what is mere habit. It’s an idea that makes sense until it doesn’t. The what can fly away in the wind. But the why? The why is drilled into the ground...
...Similarly, you can appreciate your life’s journey even when it’s uncomfortable, but it’s unrealistic to expect that you will always enjoy it...
...That’s what makes adult behavioral change so hard. If you want to be a better partner at home or a better manager at work, you not only have to change your ways, you have to get some buy-in from your partner or co-workers. Everyone around you has to recognize that you’re changing. Relying on other people increases the degree of difficulty exponentially...
...when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything...
...People who have had to endure hardships have a chip on their shoulder and thus a need to prove themselves, and he has found this to be correlated with success...
...To be a great reader, it is not enough that you read, it’s how you read...
...Together, all the DNA in our body, if laid end to end, would stretch twice the diameter of the solar system...
