“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.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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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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“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
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Pearson’s Law: “That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.”
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Tim Ferris interviews Mike Birbiglia – Mindwriting Quotes, 5 minutes of Comedy
Am on a bit of a Tim Ferris kick after reading Tools of Titans. On my evening walk (hit 10,000 steps!) I was listening to Tim’s podcast interview with Mike Birbiglia. Couple of interesting things stuck:
- Mindwriting Quotes – What the heck are mind writing quotes? An example from Mike – “Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.” Basically quotes about writing. Google mind writing and you’ll find tons of examples.
- The importance of feedback on your work – Mike’s process involves giving his friends world class Pizza to get feedback. Guess I’ll have to use Indian dinners
- How can you be more interesting by banishing the word interesting from your vocabulary
- To produce five minutes of great comedy you have to write what you think is 3 hours of great comedy. Wonder how much writing you have to do to get 3 hours of great comedy. What’s the ratio in your work?
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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: