“Learning does not entail the study of one domain but rather a diversity of them. This facillitates the process of cross-pollinating ideas and concepts, introducing you to new methods and ways of thinking.”
There’s A Lot Of Interrupting Going On These Days
“Men are almost three times as likely to interrupt women as they are to interrupt other men. Women interrupt each other constantly, and almost never interrupt men.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.” — Marshall McLuhan
Nobody Can Stop You From Getting Your Dream Job
You’ll get your dream job when you start doing your dream work.
The Best Auto-Reply Email I’ve Ever Seen
Today I sent an email to a successful lawyer I know.
In response, I got not only the best auto-reply I’ve ever received, but also an email that could actually change your life if you used it.
How To Get Better At One Thing In One Month
Sometimes we focus so much on getting great at something that we miss the opportunity we have to get better.
But getting better is the first step to getting great, and the best way I’ve found to get better at anything is to follow this simple formula.
How To Feel Better At Work And Avoid Burnout
“Examine where you are spending most of your time, and look for ways to shift some of the tasks you don’t like off your plate and ways to take on more of the responsibilities that make you feel proud of what you’re doing.”
How Facebook Is Changing Your Internet
“One in five minutes spent online are spent on Facebook. It’s a cyber kingdom with a population of over two billion. That power has made the leaders of many countries feel threatened, so governments have started to push back — attempting to regain some control over how their citizens communicate.”
6 Examples Of Success Advice You Should Ignore
Success advice is everywhere.
But most of it’s wrong.
People tell you anybody can be successful, but they’re wrong.
If anybody could do it, everybody would do it.
Success is only available to the people willing to do what it takes to achieve it.
People tell you to be professional, but what you need is to be unique.
“Professional” is too often code for “do things the way everybody else does them.”
Dress a certain way, act a certain way, follow a particular path.
But in most fields the key to success is to get noticed and you get noticed when you stand out — not when you fit it.
Be responsible. Be dependable. Be excellent. But, most importantly, be unique.
People tell you to be patient, but what you need is to adopt a long-term mindset.
Don’t wait for things to magically happen for you — they won’t.
But base decisions on what’s best for you in the long term as opposed to the short term.
A job that pays more might be a better short-term option, but the job that teaches you more will lead to the better long-term results.
People tell you it only takes hard work, but it takes more.
Hard work guarantees you nothing.
The greatest work ethic in the world won’t ensure your success until you learn to focus that effort on the right things in the right way.
People tell you failure is a good thing, but that’s only true if you analyze it.
A failure is only as valuable as the lessons you learn from it.
The value of criticism is only unlocked when the criticism enables you to improve.
If you don’t analyze your failures, they’re not a good thing. They’re worthless.
People tell you to do what you’re good at, but you should do what excites you.
You can be good at a lot of things, but you can only be exceptional at that which excites you.
Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean it’s something you should do.
Focus your energy on things that combine your skills with your interests and you’ve got the chance to do something great.
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How To Write More Effective Emails In Less Time
“Squishy words are your greatest enemy. Self-defeating phrases like ‘I feel,’ ‘I’m not sure,’ ‘perhaps,’ using the passive voice, or pretty much any adverbs waste time for both you and your recipient, and muddle your point.”