Silicon Valley brainstorming sessions often begin with someone saying, “There are no bad ideas.” I’ve always disagreed. There are bad ideas. But you don’t know an idea is bad until you’ve tried it.
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“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
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Strategy for Getting Feedback
“When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-10 score.
No one ever says 10. Then I ask how I can get closer to a 10.
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An interesting set of corporate memos (oxymoron?) written for internal audiences by company leaders. The memos are curated by Sriram Krishnan, co-host of The Good Time Show on Clubhouse.
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Think Again by Adam Grant
Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso and her colleagues write, “Learning requires the humility to realize one has something to learn.
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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger I was five or six in when he shook his head and said, “Stop talking. Once you have that many of them, they’re no longer priorities.” Priorities are the few things that you’re going to spend a lot of time and a lot of capital on. Not only do you undermine their significance by having too many, but nobody is going to remember them all. “You’re going to seem unfocused,” he said. “You only get three. I can’t tell you what those three should be. We don’t have to figure that out today.
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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On the wall of Belize International Airport …
There are seven days in a week, and someday isn’t one of them.
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this should be on the cover of every…
founders: raising money isn’t the hard part, getting a return for your investors is.
this should be on the cover of every book about building companies and being an entrepreneur https://t.co/bfLcUhMQg7
— Casey Neistat (@CaseyNeistat) February 2, 2017
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Value of Mistakes and Failure
As a piano teacher one thing that I singled out that makes me different from a lot of my predecessors as a piano teacher because if you think about the structure of that it is you do it right or else. So my method of teaching piano is I teach them to get out there and make mistakes and survive. So in the recital, I encourage them to try to make mistakes which then, of course, they don’t as much. I don’t want anybody to freeze to the point that they quit and they never play music again. My goal as a teacher is to get them to survive failing recognize that every other person in the entire world is failing and fearing failing just as much as they are and to make your contribution you have to take a risk you have to put yourself out there.