When you’re thinking about hiring someone, no amount of skills can compensate for a lack of cultural fit. Therefore, your first make or break should always be about the cultural fit. Then you should evaluate the skills. -AJ Patel Continue reading Hire for cultural fit prior to skills
Don’t hire losers. They might be able to do the job for which they are hired. But that is not good enough. Especially at a startup where you are able to hire a lot fewer people than you would like. Here are some of the questions you can ask to detect losers: “Tell me about what you studied in college, and what were some of your favorite classes?” A person who spent $120,000 and dedicated four years of their lives to any pursuit better be able to speak eloquently for five minutes on that humongous experience. Or else they are … Continue reading Filter out losers with those questions
Working toward your goals, you will get people upset. You might sincerely care about how someone is doing, but you won’t pick up the phone and call them to find out. You don’t have time for chit-chat or lunch or anything that distracts you from your single-minded focus. You won’t be good at nurturing relationships, but remember: You’d rather have someone’s respect than their friendship. 4h28mins, Relentless, Tim S. Grover Continue reading You’d rather have someone’s respect than someone’s friendship
You have to remember, not everyone can do everything. It’s not a matter of them trying more or working harder. They really just can’t do it. You have to look at your employees, or your teammates, and know what they can do, not what they can’t. As a leader, your job is to recognize people’s talent and put them in situations where they could use those talents. Work with the strenghts of the person and don’t make them face situations to expose their weaknesses. 3h19mins, Relentless, Tim S. Grover Continue reading Identify people strenghts and put them in a system that exploits those strenghts
That will include 5-10mins of warm-up. But for the middle of that bout of learning, you should be able to maintain focus for about an hour or so. For that period, remove all other distractions. But the real secret is that neuralplasticity doesn’t occur during wakefulness, it occurs during sleep. The learning will occur in the next 2-3 nights and then you should have acquired that knowledge forever. That’s why you should end that 90mins of focus with a period of NSDR (Non Sleep Deep Rest) for about 20mins. That could be naps that are less than 90mins. How to … Continue reading Periods of learning should be about 90mins
However alertness alone is not enough for neuroplasticity. If you get these three hormones released: Epinephrine -> For Alertness Acetylcholine released from brain stems -> Acts as a spotlight. Acetylcholine from Nucleus Basalis of Meynert You can change your brain. Actually your brain will change. Anything you experience will lead to massive bouts of learning. You cannot just experience things passively and expect to learn. How to get those hormones released: Epinephrine Through a cup of coffee and a good night of sleep. You can increase alertness out of love, hate, anger or fear. If you’re not motivated, you should … Continue reading Triggering the release of hormones to open neuralplasticity
Spending just 60 to 120 seconds focusing your gaze on a small window of your screen, it doesn’t only increase your visual acuity for that thing, but it also increase your attention. As we get more tired, we blink more. You should practice not blinking as a way to increase your focus. Blinks actually reset our perception of time and space. The more you can do this, the more you can maintain a cone of mental focus. How to focus to change your brain, Huberman Lab, 60mins. Continue reading Using visual focus to increase attention and learning.
The double inhale then long exhale which is the Physiological Sigh takes advantage of the second inhale, even if it’s just a tiny bit more air. You got millions of little sacks in your lunges (that makes the area of your lunges as big as a tennis court) and carbon dioxide builds up in those little chambers when we are stressed. This makes us agitated. The double inhale will reinflate those little sacks and the long exhale is now much more effective at getting rid of the carbon dioxide in your blood. This will calm you down very quickly. You … Continue reading Double inhales then long exhale to calm down
Through the interactions between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Here’s how it works: -When you inhale (whether through the mouth or the nose), the diaphragm moves down because the lunges expand. Your heart gets a little bit bigger in that expanded space. As a consequence, whatever blood is in there is now moving slower in that larger volume. There’s a little group of neurons, the Sinoatrial Node in the heart, that pays attention to the blood flow in the heart. It will send a signal up to the brain that blood is moving more slowly through the heart. The … Continue reading Control your heart rate directly to calm or to be more alert
In a tower of Jenga, if you remove some blocks, nothing happens, the tower is totally fine. And other blocks are kind of the key anchors, when you remove them, the tower crumbles. That teaches you that not all hours of the same importance. We are taught to work monday to friday, 9 to 5, but all those hours are definitely not all productive. Shaan Puri, My First Million Continue reading The Jenga Law
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