“If you’re trying to win in a negotiation you want to try and find ways to make it so that you are more patient than the other person — that is you have less to lose from letting the negotiation drag out than does the person you’re negotiating with.”
“If you want to send a message it has to be meaningful. It can’t be some half step.”
“No one has all the answers, and pretending you do doesn’t make you look confident, it makes you look a fool.”
“Be aware the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery, which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out of the corner of your eye.”
“A cluttered desk mentally exhausts you by restricting your ability to focus and limits your brain’s ability to process information.”
“Dialogue reveals assumptions for reevaluation. Debate defends assumptions as truth.”
“Imagine having no talent. Imagine being no good at all at something and doing it anyway. Then, after nine years, failing at it and giving it up in disgust and moving to Englewood, N.J., and selling aluminum siding. And then, years later, trying the thing again, though it wrecks your marriage, and failing again. And eventually making a meticulous study of the thing and figuring out that, by eliminating every extraneous element, you could isolate what makes it work and just do that. And then, after becoming better at it than anyone who had ever done it, realizing that maybe you didn’t need the talent.”
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know too well.” — Rodney Dangerfield
Let’s start with what this post isn’t about.
It’s not about meditation, a gratitude journal, or how a morning routine will change your life.
It’s about how paying attention to your life enables you to to bend it toward that which makes you happy.
“We’re moving towards a portfolio model of careers, a world in which kids growing up today will probably have five jobs at the same time. But the current model of education is preparing them for a future that doesn’t exist.”