The Problem of What Others Think
...One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us...
...One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us...
...You have more leverage than you think...
...Leaving things to the last minute is a bad habit that resonates with many of us...
...Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost...
...as you consume more data and the ratio of noise to signal increases, the less you know about what’s going on and the more inadvertent trouble you are likely to cause...
...If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it...
...“If it breaks, we’ll know how to fix it"...
...You can't solve procrastination any more than you can solve cooking. Procrastination is different for every task, the same way that mastery is different for every dish...
...The best teams aren’t free of conflict. They’re free of lingering conflict...
...To learn, we need to make mistakes. Rather than running away from our mistakes, we need to take the time to reflect on them. Reflection is the key to learning...
...Three decades ago, 55% of men reported having at least six close friends — plenty for a pickup basketball game. Today only 27% of men can say the same...
...Living in community requires us to be a bit less short-term selfish than we might be if we’re on our own...
...One of the most important yet overlooked social skills is setting boundaries...
...Teachers and coaches implicitly told us the returns were linear. "You get out," I heard a thousand times, "what you put in." They meant well, but this is rarely true. If your product is only half as good as your competitor's, you don't get half as many customers. You get no customers, and you go out of business...
...The Psychology of Human Misjudgment is the magnum opus on why we behave as we do. Below is the fully revised talk...
...What the science of stress tells us about peak performance...
...A good deal is better than a big deal...
...This may seem like a dumb thing to get worked up over, but it makes a difference. A hundred dollars ten years from now is worth $39 today if you discount it at 10% per year; it is worth about $3.50—less than one-tenth the amount—if you discount it at 40% per year...
...No matter how much we’d like it to, the world does not only operate in our circle of competence...
...Why do we urge people to develop a false confidence about their future, when we could instead teach them how to develop a healthier relationship with the unknown?...