In the most competitive industries, like sports, the best forecasters must constantly innovate. It’s easy to adopt a goal of “exploit market inefficiencies.” But that doesn’t really give you a plan for how to find them and then determine whether they represent fresh dawns or false leads. It’s hard to have an idea that nobody else has thought of. It

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He urges individuals—and parents especially—to abandon the desire for instant gratification and easy answers as early performance on tests isn’t an indicator of professional success. He emphasizes traits over particular skills—be curious, flexible, open-minded, adventurous, experimental, and playful. Try and fail and try again. Explore. Read outsid... See more

Some obvious talent stack contenders include writing, time management, public speaking, sales and marketing, accounting, statistics, programming, and design, all of which can fuse with just about any core trade to give you an unassailable edge. Again, you don’t have to be world-class at any of these things—you just have to be better than the other

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Here are places where you will reliably find opportunities to increase your value and stand out against your competition. Expertise: Study your industry, learn from your competitors. Productivity: What and how much you get done. Efficiency: How you get done what you get done. Multiplication: Getting things done by means other than manual labor. Inf

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