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On Fixing Physical Weaknesses LAIRD: "All you flexible people should go bang some iron, and all you big weight lifters should go do some yoga. . . . We always gravitate toward our strengths because we want to be in our glory."
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What gets measured gets managed.
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A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted, being worried.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."--Mark Twain"
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1--What if I did the opposite for 48 hours?
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I'm sorry to hear that. You know, I've been taking your insults for a while now, and it's unfortunate that it seems we won't be able to do business anymore. I'd recommend you take a good look at where this unhappiness and anger is actually coming from. In any case, I wish you well. If you would like to order product, we'll be happy to supply it, but only if you can conduct yourself without profanity and unnecessary insults. You have our fax..
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Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).
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If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life."
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If you had a heart attack and had to work two hours per day, what would you do?
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If you had a second heart attack and had to work two hours per week, what would you do? 3. If you had a gun to your head and had to stop doing 4/5 of different time-consuming activities, what would you remove?
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Don't panic.
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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? Identify: Positive friends versus time-consuming friends: Who is helping versus hurting you, and how do you increase your time with the former while decreasing or eliminating your time with the latter?
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Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world.
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All of my biggest wins have come from leveraging strengths instead of fixing weaknesses. Investing is hard enough without having to change your core behaviors. Don't push a boulder uphill just because you can.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. For females: West with the Night by Beryl Markham.
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dilettante,
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determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want),
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Una barrita de proteinas Clif Builder de veinte gramos con sabor a chocolate y mantequilla de cacahuete.
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One of the books he recommends for cultivating dealmaking ability is actually a children's book and a 10-minute read: Stone Soup. "It's a children's story that is the best MBA degree you can read."
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There needs to be one decisive reason, and then the worthiness of the trip needs to be measured against that one reason. If I go, then we can backfill into the schedule all the other secondary activities. But if I go for a blended reason, I'll almost surely come back and feel like it was a waste of time.
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If I asked you to spend $1 billion improving the world, solving a problem, what would you pursue?
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I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering.
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But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. 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?
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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What are domino foods? Foods that could be acceptable if humans had strict portion control, but that are disallowed because practically none of us do. Common domino foods include: Chickpeas Peanut butter Salted cashews Alcohol Domino triggers aren't limited to food. For some people, if they play 15 minutes of World of Warcraft, they'll play 15 hours. It's 0 or 15 hours.
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The Importance of Language on a Rainy Day "One of the biggest mistakes that I observed in the first year of Jack's life was parents who have unproductive language around weather being good or bad. Whenever it was raining, you'd hear moms, babysitters, dads say, 'It's bad weather. We can't go out,' or if it wasn't, 'It's good weather. We can go out.' That means that, somehow, we're externally reliant on conditions being perfect in order to b..
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From Japan to Monaco, from globetrotting single mothers to multimillionaire racecar drivers, the basic rules of successful NR are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of the world is doing.
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What was the "grail"? 25 mg of acarbose ( 1/4 pill) with food."
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If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even--on the rare miracle day--20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty."
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Make commitments in a high-energy state so that you can't back out when you're in a low-energy state.
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? Advice I'd give: Make sure you have something every day you're looking forward to."
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The moral of the story is, whenever possible, do print/text interviews via email. A paper trail will give you evidence and recourse if people misbehave.
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Justin listens to Max Richter's From Sleep, a composed album with a shortened version on Spotify. "I put it on very quietly as I am starting my bedtime routine, so it usually ends 15 to 20 minutes after I'm asleep. Or I will use the Sonos sleep timer, if I'm at home."
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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. So we cannot out-obedience the competition. Therefore, we have to out-lead or out-solve the other people. . . .
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Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this--or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?"
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sir.' The implication is obvious: If I have problems, I'm going to handle them. I'm going to take care of them, and I'm not going to complain. I took extreme ownership of my world. The way that worked was twofold. When I did need something, it was something significant, it was something real. And when I told the Commodore, 'Hey, boss, we need this right here,' I would get it almost instantaneously
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I think up through probably 35, I was very much a control freak, because the size of the organizations I commanded, and I was part of, were small enough where I could micromanage them. I had a fairly forceful personality, and if you worked hard and studied hard, you could just about move all the chess pieces, no problem. Around age 35 to 40, as you get up to battalion level, which is about 600 people, suddenly, you're going to have to lead ..
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a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.
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Por suerte, multiplicar los resultados por diez no siempre requiere un esfuerzo diez veces mayor. Los cambios grandes pueden llegar en paquetes pequenos.
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Para cambiar radicalmente de vida no necesitas correr una carrera de cien kilometros, ni doctorarte en nada, ni reinventarte por completo. Son las cosas pequenas hechas con constancia las que se convierten en algo grande (como
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. --GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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picked one book out of dozens based on reader reviews and the fact that the authors had actually done what I wanted to do. If the task is how-to in nature, I only read accounts that are "how I did it" and autobiographical. No speculators or wannabes are worth the time. 2. Using the book to generate intelligent and specific questions, I contacted 10 of the top authors and agents in the world"
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Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse
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triunfas porque localizas tus capacidades unicas y te concentras en desarrollar rutinas en torno a ellas.
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