“I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the […]
“When you meet someone new and they start talking about a topic you know everything about, let them finish.” Side benefit – the embedded Top Gear clip of a VW Beetle Dropped from Helicopter Vs Porsche in 1 Mile Race Against Gravity. | learn […]
I already know you make great decisions – after all, you signed up for this newsletter! But you could probably do a little better. Read this – it’ll help. | learn more
“Every company is in a value race. Not only do you have to create value for your customers, but you also have to do it before someone else does. Doing so requires the ability to say ‘yes’ to truly great […]
“Habits are processes operating in the background that powers our lives. Good habits help us reach our goals. Bad ones hinder us. Either way habits powerfully influence our automatic behavior.” | learn more
There’s an important distinction to be drawn here. Think about how much of what we learn every day won’t matter in a year. This is expiring knowledge. Then, consider the fundamental truths that we learn that will always matter. This […]
Instead of mastering one thing before moving on to the next, interleaving means mixing related skills among each other to take small steps that cumulatively have a bigger effect. |learn more
We’ve all seen times where brainstorming leads to narrowing of ideas rather than the opposite. University of Texas professor Art Markman offers advice for how to get better results from brainstorming sessions. | learn more
Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, talks about his experience writing the book, including the diminishing returns and negative returns of spending extra hours per day on the endeavor. | learn more
The inventor of the cotton gin won a contract to manufacture 5,000 muskets per year for the U.S. in 1798. He had no gunmaking knowledge, and the best armories at the time could barely produce that much volume. What happened […]