Good questions
Which project would I most regret not having accomplished by the time I'm 80—given the motivations I have for the foreseeable future?
Knowledge — • How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life
How can we position ourselves to create the best opportunities?
Lali Dangazele • Five Lessons on How to Thrive in a New Environment with Gary Stewart (FounderTribes)
Before you release something into the world, assess whether it represents you well. If this was the only work people saw of yours, would you be proud of it?
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul,
instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?
What is the Pixar version of a startup? What do we want to believe about the world? What should be a good world – with all of us [having] equal chances of being a founder?
Mario Gabriele • The Best Venture Firm You’ve Never Heard Of
Ask for advice, not feedback. Feedback is backward-looking—it leads people to criticize you or cheer for you. Advice is forward-looking—it leads people to coach you. You can get your critics and cheerleaders to act more like coaches by asking a simple question: “What’s one thing I can do better next time?”
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
When you’re struggling to appreciate your progress, consider how your past self would view your current achievements. If you knew five years ago what you’d accomplish now, how proud would you have been?
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?
Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
