A brand is trust. A brand is an expectation that the customer will be happy with his or her purchase. -Ryan Daniel Moran, 12 Months to $1 Million, p.28 Continue reading A brand is something built by creating a group of products that all serve the same person
Classic never dies, ever What you stand for is more important than what you sell Authencity speaks and sells itself -Michael Cassel, The Curse of Von Dutch Continue reading The three pillars of branding
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
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
In the early days of the curve, you over-forecast (expectations are higher than results) and in the later days of the curve, you under-forecast. Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital part II Acquired Podcast Continue reading Growth isn’t linear
That describes the way many if not most of the biggest startups got started. Neither Apple nor Yahoo nor Google nor Facebook were even supposed to be companies at first. They grew out of things their founders built because there seemed a gap in the world. Paul Graham, How to Get Startup Ideas Continue reading Live in the future, then build what’s missing
Think of it this way. If something is wanted a large amount by a large number of people, it exists already. So you’re left with 3 options. Imagine the graph below: Large Number of PeopleWant Little Large Number of PeopleWant a lot Small Number of PeopleWant Little Small Number of PeopleWant a lot So the upper right corner is in red because it exists already. Now the bottom left (Small number of people wants little) is not worth pursuing so it’s in red also. You’re left with the top left and bottom right. Paul Graham says you should always go … Continue reading Build something a small number of people want a large amount
That’s the way to think about starting boring stuff. Some projects have wonderful long-term results but because these are long-terms, they are pushed back. For example, blogging is a great example. You won’t see results today, but in 6months or a year from now, you’ll be so happy to have written this article when you’re in the google snippets. Same thing for fitness. Sam Parr, My First Million Continue reading In six months from now, will you be happy to have started doing this today?
As we grow up, so many things are happening in your life. Some of it you’re processing, some of it you’re absorbing and some of it you should probably think a bit more about. So it’s just like an email inbox. It’s piling up. Email after email. Goign back 10, 20, 30 years. And when you start to meditate, those emails start coming back to you. What about this issue? What about that? It’s scary. So people think I can’t clear my mind. But really what’s happening it’s like self-therapy. And you just have to sit there and process those … Continue reading Meditation is like an email mailbox
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