Every decision we make is a bet.
How those bets turn out is determined by a wide variety of factors (including luck), but there are specific ways you can tilt the odds in your favor.
“If you’re in a career right now that you hate, that’s terrible. If you’re in a job that you hate, that’s OK — it doesn’t matter.”
“You say you want your team to think harder and stop just doing exactly what you say. But every time they have a question, you just answer it. Or worse, you give them a wrist slap for bringing you a new idea.”
“Your goal should be for a ‘network effect’ to take hold in your community. The value of your product should increase exponentially with each user, and this usually requires a manual process that you can’t scale immediately.”
“Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It’s more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the outside world.”
“Skip the introduction and purpose. Everyone already knows why they are at the meeting. There is no need to introduce yourself or give the reason you’re there. It’s not the first day of school.”
“Once we accept that work powers lifestyle, then moderate our consumption of each, we find the harder we work, the more life we live.”
“You are the common denominator of all the drama in your life. You haven’t had 5 crappy jobs or 3 crappy relationships in a row. They did not happen to you. You happened to them. You are crappy at your job or you are crappy at your relationships.”
“You want to be the person that gets on the elevator, and then gets off, and nobody really remembers that you were even there.”
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” — Jonas Salk