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  • The third component of independent-mindedness, curiosity, may be the most interesting
    How to Think for Yourself
  • You can expand the source of influences in time as well as space, by reading history. When I read history I do it not just to learn what happened, but to try to get inside the heads of people who lived in the past.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • But if you surround yourself with independent-minded people, you'll have the opposite experience: hearing other people say surprising things will encourage you to, and to think of more
    How to Think for Yourself
  • Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
    What is your life's blueprint? | Martin Luther King Jr: An extraordinary life
  • Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better.
    What is your life's blueprint? | Martin Luther King Jr: An extraordinary life
  • Curiosity and originality are closely related. Curiosity feeds originality by giving it new things to work on. But the relationship is closer than that. Curiosity is itself a kind of originality; it's roughly to questions what originality is to answers. And since questions at their best are a big component of answers, curiosity at its best is a creative force.
    How to Do Great Work
  • The thing that makes business development fascinating is that the best deals have never been done before. There’s no template, no cookie cutter grind it out approach to making it work. This is why most organizations are so astonishingly bad at it. They don’t have the confidence to make decisions or believe they have the ability to make mistakes.
    The Complete Guide To Business Development | FourWeekMBA
  • In fact, a growing body of research demonstrates that the more we value and pursue happiness, the less happy we become. This is known as the happiness paradox.
    Why the pursuit of happiness leads to misery - Big Think
  • “Chance favors the prepared mind.” - Louis Pasteur
    How to Create Luck
  • My entire worldview changed when I realized that luck can be created. More precisely, you can actively create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you. The more I looked into this, the more I realized that this is not only not a new insight, but successful people have studied this for decades and I am just late to the party.
    How to Create Luck
  • I’d define intelligence vs. smart like this: Intelligent people understand technical details, smart people understand emotional details.
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund