Saying no is an important skill to develop at any stage of your career because it retains the most important asset in life: your time. As the investor Pedro Sorrentino put it, “If you don’t guard your time, people will steal it from you".
You need to say no to whatever isn't leading you toward your goals. You need to say no to distractions.The great art is to learn to integrate the two – to marry...
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019
WHAT IS YOUR IKIGAI?
An " Ikigai " is essentially ‘a reason to get up in the morning’. A reason to enjoy life. The Japanese concept which translates as “ the happiness of always being busy” or “ A reason for being”
In Japanese, ikigai is written by combining the symbols that mean “life” with “to be worthwhile.”
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
10x THINKING
on June 12, 2019
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One company stands out as most impressive in the world right now for its way of thinking. Not for its achievements today (although hugely influential), but for the impact its way of thinking will have on our collective futures.That company is Google.
“The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Skunk Works Rules
"We are defined not by the technologies we create, but the process in which we create them."
- Kelly Johnson
Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, including the U-2, the Lockheed...
Monday, June 10, 2019
The Apollo Principle
“A big mission that unites people in purpose.”
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and...
The Obstacle Is The Way
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”- Marcus Aurelius
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“Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.”
— Ryan Holiday: Author of The Obstacle is the Way
American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland...
Saturday, June 8, 2019
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
on June 08, 2019
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“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”— Mortimer Adler
The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success.
-He pioneered an entire field: quantum electrodynamics...