...If a decision is reversible, we can make it fast and without perfect information. If a decision is irreversible, we had better slow down the decision-making process and ensure that we consider ample information and understand the problem as thoroughly as we can...
...The second thing you should do is reset your garage door openers so they forget all the old remotes...
...Here’s how neuroscience can help you be an amazing parent...
...In the end, what we really want to do as leaders, whether we’re technically in a leadership position or not, is to create an environment where feedback is shared in a helpful and useful way. The best way to do that besides giving great feedback is volunteering to take some as well...
...Points for successful prioritization. Points for efficiency and productivity. Points for doing work that matters...
...The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking...
...There is no get-smarter-quick plan. Acquiring wisdom, is hard work...
...Achieving your long-term financial goals depends on two separate, yet complementary skills: fiscal discipline and investment discipline. Fiscal discipline means saving or otherwise gathering capital to invest, whereas investment discipline involves building a portfolio and managing risk in order to reach your investment goals...
...When, ten years later, you look back at what you and the team accomplished, it may well look like a reverse triple somersault with two twists in pike, and it will have been exactly that, and you will have won the prize too. But you will have done it by doing the easier things perfectly thousands of times instead of the hard thing just once...
...Velocity and speed are different things. Speed is the distance traveled over time. I can run around in circles with a lot of speed and cover several miles that way, but I’m not getting anywhere. Velocity measures displacement. It’s direction-aware...
...Inertia is a pervasive, problematic force. It’s the pull that keeps us clinging to old ways and prevents us from trying new things. But as we have seen, it is also a necessary one. Without it, the universe would collapse. Inertia is what enables us to maintain patterns of functioning, maintain relationships, and get through the day without questioning everything...
...The goal of a user guide is to set blindingly clear expectations on how to collaborate without extra second guessing...
...people’s brains function differently when they perceive or anticipate scarcity...
...The actions you take during your first few months in a new job have a major impact on your success or failure...
...To figure out where else you should build margins of safety into your life, think of the times you’ve been terrified and desperate. Those might be good places to start learning from experience and making the most of your second chances...
...For the best Ohio morning ever, in any weather, stop at Heartwood Coffee Roastery in Cleveland-adjacent Hudson, then disappear onto the trails of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, next door...
...Here are 5 steps that can help when you manage a financial shock...
...Schopenhauer said that sleep is the interest we pay on the loan of life...
...What’s your favorite family tradition?...
...Never touch paper twice...
