That’s how you know you actually want to learn it and you don’t want to learn it just to sound smart or to look like the smartest in the room. Naval Ravikant, Joe Rogan Experience #1309, 2h03mins Continue reading Would you still be interested in learning this if you couldn’t tell anyone?
There are gaps in thinking where you make leaps. Because youère kind to yourself. But you don’t know you’re making those. But when you’re forced to write it down, or to articulate it, or talk to somebody, you have to complete those gaps and make it a logical chain. Naval Ravikant, Joe Rogan Experience #1309, 1h32mins Continue reading Memorize stuff is the worst thing, you can do. You need to understand it. A good way to do so is to articulate it in writing or talking.
If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool mind. Warren Buffet spends his days playing bridge, taking walks, not constantly feeding his mind with information. If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind, the same way you have to learn to tame your body. Naval Ravikant, Joe Rogan Experience #1309, 19mins Continue reading Clear mind results in better judgement which results in better outcome
Play a stupid game, get a stupid prize. A stupid game is to try to win an argument on twitter. To convince somebody you’re right. Ex: You’re at the carnival and you pull up at the water squirt game. And you play that game. 40mins later you’ve put in $80 and you win. You’re the big winner and you get the giant stuffed animal. You’ve just won a $6 stuffed animal. Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 9min Continue reading Am I playing a stupid game?
It’s a great to cut through all the BS we tell ourselves we need to do and actually do the things that matter the most. Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 7min Continue reading If I could work only for 2 hours today, what could I do to feel like today was super productive
“Ohh okay, that sounds like a huge plan. I’m not as smart as you. Imagine we had all half the IQ we have today, what would the dumb simple plan we would do to make progress.” Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 5min Continue reading If someone goes on to explain a complex plan, say:
Ask “What’s an ideal friday night for you?” “Take me through the ideal sunday morning” Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 3min Continue reading Instead of “what do you like?”
That results in “Fine”or “Good”, it’s a dead end question. Try to go for something specifc that will go beyond the trap of fine or good. The words don’t matter, but here are some examples: “You got a little pep in your step today, what did you have for breakfast?” “You look happy, what were you doing right before this?” Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 1min Continue reading Instead of asking “How is it going”, “How’s your day”…
A newsletter says, by implication, “I’ve got a lot of good shit you should know, and I’m going to parcel it out to you every month, in increments.” Now, if you’re real interested in whatever it is, that will be okay. But basically, what the market wants is they want the answer right now. They don’t want it parceled out. They want you to hand it to them – ergo a book or a report. Gary Halbert, Gary Halbert: XXX, p.211 Continue reading People rarely want a newsletter…
If you have bad information that you trust, you end up making biased decisions… and that’s costly. Make sure your decisions are based on trusted information. Gary Halbert, Gary Halbert: XXX, p.176 Continue reading Nothing is more expensive than bad information
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