“Enjoy 10–15 minutes of quiet contemplation, and you’ll find that your memory of the facts you have just learnt is far better than if you had attempted to use that moment more productively.”
How to Improve Your Memory
Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
“Leaders trying to accomplish a worthy mission have to cultivate the ability to identify the one, two, or three essential issues facing them at a given moment. It is never five or ten.”
Forget Influencers, Be Inspirational
“You can’t buy influence. You can’t borrow someone’s influence. For an influencer to really connect with somebody, there has to be KLT — know, like and trust.”
Four Habits to Make You a Better Public Speaker
“When you spout facts and data that the audience doesn’t understand, you make them feel dumb. You want to do the opposite–your talk should make them feel smart.”
Create Content the Same Way Coders Create Software
“Don’t think of a piece of content like a finished product. Think of a piece of content as a line of code.”
Why You Should Stop Trying to Optimize Your Life
“Coming up with the perfect productivity system, the perfect to do list software — it’s not important. It’s procrastination on the things that are truly important.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” — Pat Riley
10 Quick Tips For Creators
1. Start by learning to finish.
How to Become Indistractable
“You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from.”
How to Make Friends
“However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1985 to 2004, the average number of confidants that people reported having decreased from three to two.”