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Identity Based Habits
James Clear • 30 One-Sentence Stories From People Who Have Built Better Habits
Whether you’re a computer programmer, writer, marketer, consultant, or entrepreneur, your situation has become similar to Jung trying to outwit Freud, or Jason Benn trying to hold his own in a hot start-up: To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of producing—a task that requires depth.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“It’s very common to be utterly brilliant and still think you’re way smarter than you actually are.” – Munger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
I know that if you are not unusually hard-working or competitive or smart, you can still distinguish yourself. Be unusual in some other noticeable, likable way—unusually honest, brave, generous, curious, or pleasant. All of these attributes are composed of discrete behaviors that can be learned through practice.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
If You Want to Improve Y...
Thorough self-reflection isn’t only critical to becoming a better coach, but also a better person.
Brett Bartholomew • Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard
When it comes to being a great investor, you have to manage your own psychology:
Shane Parrish • Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself [The Knowledge Project Ep. #94] - Farnam Street
A mindset that can be paranoid and optimistic at the same time is hard to maintain, because seeing things as black or white takes less effort than accepting nuance. But you need short-term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long-term optimism.