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A) You should taste the food as you go, which a surprisingly small number of people do; and B) salt and olive oil actually are cheating and they're secret weapons and they always work." Audiogon"
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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 you the truth. For you to have low-stakes but superimportant conversations with someone who's important to..
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I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us.
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When I hear stories of success and failure, I look for the little things that made a big difference. What conventional wisdom was shunned? ...
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I
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out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need--we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory--a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase in the same way we buy clothing and furniture. Not"
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Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life--6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years--to travel the world on your own terms. But
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Vagabonding is an attitude--a friendly interest in people, places, and things
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From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises. In
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Rather, it's the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places.
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the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. If it wasn't a crazy idea, it's not a breakthrough; it's an incremental improvement.
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The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.
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Law 2: When given a choice ... take both. Law
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What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive?
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Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing?
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If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence, or a vice: It is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The
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Named must your fear be before banish it you can." --Yoda, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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What would you do if there were no way you could fail? If you were 10 times smarter than the rest of the world? Create two timelines--6 months and 12 months--and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order. If you have..
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Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences.
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Rule #1: Avoid "white" carbohydrates (or anything that can be white). Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Rule #3: Don't drink calories. Rule #4: Don't eat fruit. Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts."
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The most important thing I've learned about nutrition is you need to deserve your carbs
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Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need? What
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Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.
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Stay humble or get humbled.
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Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher."
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Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In
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Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through y..
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On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working."
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Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.
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1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions:
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SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. --STAR TREK
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all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
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his favorite
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Walden
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Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
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Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.
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Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
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While in Kolkata, India, for this book, I stayed at the iconic Oberoi Grand. The concierge explained to me the hotel's hiring philosophy: "You can't bend mature bamboo. But if you get it as a young shoot, you can bend it, mold it. We hire them between the ages of 18 and 21 so we can mold them." The concierge was one of only 15 double golden key (Clef d'Or) concierges in India, and he knew that sometimes having no experience is a huge advant..
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Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committe..
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