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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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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What's Holding you Back? What can Help you Make the Leap to the Next Level?
Are you feeling stuck in some area of your life? Do you feel like you have hit an upper limit in your happiness? The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level might help you ask some questions that help you breakthrough.
Some questions I am considering are:
- What am I doing that I am incompetent at? Why are you doing it?
- What can I do OK that so many people can OK? Why are you doing it? Zone of Competence
- What am I doing that I can do well but other people can do better? Why are you doing it?
- What sets you on fire? What do you do well and better than anyone else. Zone of Genius
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Tim Ferris' Tools of Titans
Reading Tim Ferris’ Tools of Titans. Tim wrote this book as a way to summarize the wisdom learned from the many people he has interviewed on his podcasts. I first met Tim at an EO Nebraska event right after he wrote The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. He attended the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder event right after and hacked his way into asking Warren Buffett a question.
I collect quotes as a way to trigger my thoughts, and often make me dig back into a book. The quotes I like so far are:
“‘Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost corrections themselves.’—Peter Lynch”
“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use be the same again.”—Steve Jobs
“In negotiation, he who cares the least wins.”—Various
“To do original work: It’s not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”
By the way, an immediate action from his book was to change the theme for this blog to P2 — a theme designed by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to encourage more blogging.
It is also worth reading Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life on Tim’s blog.
If you want to check out some of Tim’s readers favorite quotes, check out this post on Facebook: