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Charles Munger, right-hand adviser to Warren Buffett, the richest man on the planet, is known for his unparalleled clear thinking and near-failure-proof track record. How did he refine his thinking to help build a $3 trillion business in Berkshire Hathaway? The answer is "mental models," or analytical rules-of-thumb4 pulled from disciplines outside of investing, ranging from physics to evolutionary biology. Eighty to 90 models have helped C..
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The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch"
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Life's Little Instruction Book
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PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF "If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don't really want funding from, because you're probably going to suck in the beginning. I sucked for a really long time." TF:"
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Poor Charlie's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charles T. Munger),
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Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities."
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No Country for Old Men
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The goal wasn't specific enough. I hadn't defined alternate activities that would replace the initial workload. Therefore, I just continued working, even though there was no financial need. I needed to feel productive and had no other vehicles. This is how most people work until death: "I'll just work until I have X dollars and then do what I want." If you don't define the "what I want" alternate activities, the X figure will increase indef..
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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People don't like being sold products, but we all like being told stories. Work
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Life is too short to be small. --BENJAMIN DISRAELI
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I am, and will continue to be, a humble student of you all.
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Reality is negotiable.
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To me, it means using pain to find clarity. If pain is examined and not ignored, it can show you what to excise from your life.
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Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? When I give a book, I always try to find something that I loved, and most important, speaks to the person's dreams, yearnings, or challenges they are facing. For friends who have faced or are facing cancer, I often give them The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, becaus..
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To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."--Elbert Hubbard"
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By focusing inward on yourself as a writer instead of outward on what you think readers will want to read, you'll end up creating the best and most original work, and that one-in-a-thousand person who happens to love it will end up finding their way to you.
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started out basically imagining I was writing for a stadium full of replicas of myself--which made things easy because I already knew exactly what topics interested them, what writing style they liked, what their sense of humor was, etc.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." -Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist"
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The three of us are strong-willed individuals with distinct preferences, and the Eating Out Jar came out of a struggle. Each time we talked about going out to eat, we would spend so much energy bickering that we would be exhausted or discouraged by the time we finally chose. It was not fun. The same situation occurred with choosing an activity for the weekend. I sat my family at the table and gave them pens and Post-it notes where we wrote ..
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Rule #5: Whenever possible, measure your progress in body fat percentage, NOT total pounds. The scale can deceive and derail you. For instance, it's common to gain muscle while simultaneously losing fat on the SCD. That's exactly what you want, but the scale number won't move, and you will get frustrated. In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or calipers with a gym professional (I recommend the Jackso..
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These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." -Seneca"
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Do people you respect or care about leave hateful comments on the Internet?" (No.) "Do you really want to engage with people who have infinite time on their hands?" (No.)"
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Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!
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Truth is, young creative minds don't need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they've already got.
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Parenting Advice "What could possibly be more important than your kid? Please don't play the busy card. If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I cook dinner every night. Because what a wonderful, semi-distracted environment in which the kid can tell yo..
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TF: Decide beforehand--and not reactively when emotions run high--what types of findings are worth acting upon or ignoring, and what your "if/then" actions will be"
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Lifestyle design is based on massive action--output. Increased output necessitates decreased input. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four.
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That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." -William of Ockham"
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Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions."
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So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity.
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Our sprint coach, Barry Ross, has a most unusual zoo. In fact, he can engineer mutants at will. His best female distance runner has deadlifted 415 lbs at a body weight of 132 lbs. His youngest male lifter, 11 years old, has dead-lifted 225 lbs at a body weight of 108 lbs.
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The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.
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So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.
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In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy."
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If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.
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What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." -Henry David Thoreau"
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Although there is disagreement on the exact number of taste qualities, everyone acknowledges that the number is small. The usual list includes sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (Physiology and Behavior, 1991). So,
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What gets measured gets managed." -Peter Drucker"
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Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University isolated umami as glutamic acid while studying kombu, giant Japanese sea kelp. He commercialized this finding as monosodium glutamate (MSG), but you need not eat headache powder to taste the wonder (and healthfulness, when organic) of umami. Tomatoes, parmesan, and chicken broth all have high glutamate content. There are also mimics: shiitake mushrooms have umami-like nucleotides that all..
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It's always the hard part that creates value." "You are more powerful than you think you are. Act accordingly."
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