...Money is a touchy subject in relationships — even in friendships. If you make less than your friends, you may feel less-than; make more and you risk taking on too many financial favors or coming across as out of touch...
...I’m sure there was a really good reason twenty years ago for all the steps that are now involved in the thing you do right now, but your competitor, the one who is starting from scratch, is skipping most of them...
...Using a true multidisciplinary understanding of things, Peter identifies two often overlooked, parabolic “Big Ideas”: 1) Mirrored Reciprocation (go positive and go first) and 2) Compound Interest (being constant). A great “Life Hack” is to simply combine these two into one basic approach to living your life...
...“I’ve got this,” is a phrase that some people will go out of their way to avoid saying. At work, where it’s incredibly valuable, or in personal relationships, where it creates deep connection...
...What's the real reason you were let go?...
...States have official unclaimed property websites where you can enter some basic information (often just your name) and search for abandoned assets to reclaim...
...If we want to improve a skill, we need to know what exactly has to change and what might get us there. Otherwise, we plateau..
...If you understand it, that means you can change it. You have resilience and insight and the leverage to make it better...
...Moderate emotional discomfort is a signal that you’re developing as a person, and it often happens before you can detect the benefits of self-growth...
...At the end of the day, there is little difference between a process that misses a potential candidate and one that misses a candidate’s potential...
...Knowing when to ignore feedback that isn’t useful or is badly intentioned can be just as useful as knowing when to seek out the kind of feedback that is instructive...
...One of the things we certainly have control over is deciding whether we’ll seek to spend our days in control or not. We might have to make sacrifices along the way, but the feeling is up to us...
...If you want to make better decisions, you need to do everything you can to reduce the pressure you’re under...
...The ringer on a phone was designed to establish urgency. And social media has optimized for that itch as well...But it’s not up to them...
...Vote it off the island...Automate it...Write your own rules...Every week, block off the same time for yourself at work...
...Avoiding bad decisions is just as important as making good ones. Knowing the warning signs and having a set of rules for your decision-making process limits the amount of luck you need to get good outcomes...
...There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is...But then, in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits, and it can be much higher than the first price...
...Focused repetitions give you feedback. Feedback makes you better. Each repetition builds upon the ones you’ve already done. This is how greatness happens. A series of tiny gains, imperceptible in moment, aggregate into massive differences in the end...
...Given that the list of things to do is intentionally endless, it’s on each of us to decide what ‘enough’ looks like. Because more time isn’t always the answer...
...If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be...
