Andrew Wilkinson’s partner, Chris has this framework. If you say to a potential employee, partner, etc. “the ball is in your court”, do they follw-up in 24 hours? Do they move the ball forward? My First Million, Ep. 301, minute 49:02 Continue reading How to spot an All-star?
You gotta be creative and take that many dollars of budget and make it feel like a trillion dollars of budget. Sam Parr organized a visit to Costco with the employees from The Hustle. In teams of 2 or 4, they were given a 200$ budget and they had 30mins to go into costco and buy the coolest stuff for the office and food for lunch. Everyone was then voting on who had picked the best goods. My First Million, Ep. 299, minute 1:01:10 Continue reading Idea for team building activity
It’s pointless to work 15 hours per day… Instead, spend that time carefully monitoring what you spend your time on. It’s so easy to just do this one thing that brings low to zero value. But don’t Basically, you need to pick the right projects with unlimited upside. -Shaan Puri Continue reading What you work on and who you work with is far more important that how hard you work
The next time someone tries to tell you to do something because big companies do it, be suspicious. Don’t let them infect your company with the thing that’s slowly killing theirs. -Ravi Gupta, quoted by Shaan Puri, My First Million, Ep. 278, minute 19:30 Continue reading Should you follow what big companies do?
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
What’s a calendar audit? For one week, you keep track of each hour. And then what you do, the next week you just go back and pull up last week’s calendar and you take 3 colored markers. Green, red, and yellow marker. Which block gave me energy? Mark them in green. Which things sucked the energy out of me? I was drained after doing it? Mark them in red. Which block were neutral? Mark them in yellow. You look at the painting and you try to do less of the red stuff. Literally just by avoiding it, automating it or … Continue reading Do a Calendar Audit
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
Often in a company, someone would need your help but it’s not urgent yet. It’s not an emergency… Well it’s good to address before it turns to shit. Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 6min Continue reading Ask yourself: Who needs my help today?
“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:
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