“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”
Your Systems Are More Important Than Your Goals
How to Give Life Meaning, According to Terminally Ill Children
“Be kind. Read more books. Spend time with your family. Crack jokes. Go to the beach. Hug your dog. Tell that special person you love them. These are the things these kids wished they could’ve done more. The rest is details.”
How to Use Game Theory to Win a Negotiation
“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.”
A Great Reason to Give Huge Tips
“If you want to send a message it has to be meaningful. It can’t be some half step.”
The Most Confident Phrase You Can Say in a Presentation
“No one has all the answers, and pretending you do doesn’t make you look confident, it makes you look a fool.”
Nine Life Lessons from Tim Minchin
“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.”
14 Reasons You’re Tired All the Time
“A cluttered desk mentally exhausts you by restricting your ability to focus and limits your brain’s ability to process information.”
We Need More Dialogue and Less Debate
“Dialogue reveals assumptions for reevaluation. Debate defends assumptions as truth.”
The Story of Rodney Dangerfield
“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.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know too well.” — Rodney Dangerfield