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Adapted from ‘How to Disagree’ (2008) by @paulg
Print it out. Stick it on your wall.
'the greatest benefit of disagreeing well is not just that it will make conversations better, but that it will make the people who have them happier.'
Original essay: https://bit.ly/3dCKAvo
Print it out. Stick it on your wall.
'the greatest benefit of disagreeing well is not just that it will make conversations better, but that it will make the people who have them happier.'
Original essay: https://bit.ly/3dCKAvo
The focus of your attention is like a beam of light.
You get to control the DIRECTION, SCOPE and INTENSITY.
You process what is illuminated and ignore what is left in the dark.
Choose accordingly.
You get to control the DIRECTION, SCOPE and INTENSITY.
You process what is illuminated and ignore what is left in the dark.
Choose accordingly.
The Window of Tolerance 
"What really defines our optimal moments is that they are ones in which we are able to feel stable... to take things in our stride and to be neither weary nor fearful, bored nor manic."
- @TheSchoolOfLife
Original Essay: http://bit.ly/30woohT
"What really defines our optimal moments is that they are ones in which we are able to feel stable... to take things in our stride and to be neither weary nor fearful, bored nor manic."
- @TheSchoolOfLife
Original Essay: http://bit.ly/30woohT
The Circle of Competence 
"If you want to improve your odds of success in life and business, then define the perimeter.. and operate inside. Over time, work to expand that circle but never fool yourself about where it stands today."
- @farnamstreet
https://bit.ly/32Sd9Di
"If you want to improve your odds of success in life and business, then define the perimeter.. and operate inside. Over time, work to expand that circle but never fool yourself about where it stands today."
- @farnamstreet
https://bit.ly/32Sd9Di
Choosing Who to Work With 
"In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities...are going to kill you."
-Warren Buffett
"In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities...are going to kill you."
-Warren Buffett
Play Long-term Games with Long-term People 
-> 
'In a long-term game, it’s positive sum. We’re all baking the pie together. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.'
@naval
Original Essay: https://nav.al/long-term
-> 'In a long-term game, it’s positive sum. We’re all baking the pie together. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.'
@naval
Original Essay: https://nav.al/long-term
Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success 
'You can raise your market value by being merely 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 -not extraordinary- at more than one skill.
Sometimes an entirely inaccurate formula is a handy way to move you in the right direction.'
@ScottAdamsSays
'You can raise your market value by being merely 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 -not extraordinary- at more than one skill.
Sometimes an entirely inaccurate formula is a handy way to move you in the right direction.'
@ScottAdamsSays
The Learning Loop
by @ShaneAParrish
1. Experience
2. Reflection
3. Abstraction/Lesson
4. Action
"This process creates a feedback loop so that you are continuously adapting and learning from your (or others) experiences."
by @ShaneAParrish 1. Experience
2. Reflection
3. Abstraction/Lesson
4. Action
"This process creates a feedback loop so that you are continuously adapting and learning from your (or others) experiences."
The Deflationary Force of Innovation
"A minute of work in 1880 on the average wage could earn you four minutes of light from a kerosene lamp; a minute of work in 1950 could earn you more than seven hours of light from an incandescent bulb.."
@mattwridley, How Innovation Works
"A minute of work in 1880 on the average wage could earn you four minutes of light from a kerosene lamp; a minute of work in 1950 could earn you more than seven hours of light from an incandescent bulb.."
@mattwridley, How Innovation Works
Hedonic Adaptation:
Your level of happiness tends to return to a default baseline regardless of positive or negative life events.
However, activities conducive to a “flow” state, mindfulness or incorporating variety into daily life can all boost satisfaction over time.
Your level of happiness tends to return to a default baseline regardless of positive or negative life events.
However, activities conducive to a “flow” state, mindfulness or incorporating variety into daily life can all boost satisfaction over time.
What Do You Want to Want?:
You ARE what you want
You can REPROGRAM your default wants
You must DISCOVER what you actually want
- @kyleschen
Full Article: https://bit.ly/3iiblZ6
You ARE what you wantYou can REPROGRAM your default wantsYou must DISCOVER what you actually want- @kyleschen
Full Article: https://bit.ly/3iiblZ6
The Paradox of Choice
“The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer.
..to settle for something that is good enough and not worry that there might be something better.
Knowing what’s good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about.”
- @BarrySch
“The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer.
..to settle for something that is good enough and not worry that there might be something better.
Knowing what’s good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about.”
- @BarrySch
Devotion to Inquisitiveness
'Curiosity is the secret.
The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than.. passion. [It] only ever asks one simple question-
“Is there 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 you’re interested in?”
The answer need not set your life on fire.'
- @GilbertLiz (Big Magic)
![Devotion to Inquisitiveness'Curiosity is the secret.The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than.. passion. [It] only ever asks one simple question-“Is there 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 you’re interested in?”The answer need not set your life on fire.'- @GilbertLiz (Big Magic)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiII1j_UYAA-bJD.jpg "Devotion to Inquisitiveness'Curiosity is the secret.The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than.. passion. [It] only ever asks one simple question-“Is there 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 you’re interested in?”The answer need not set your life on fire.'- @GilbertLiz (Big Magic)")
'Curiosity is the secret.
The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than.. passion. [It] only ever asks one simple question-
“Is there 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 you’re interested in?”
The answer need not set your life on fire.'
- @GilbertLiz (Big Magic)
Reject Prior Success
“Entitlement and complacency are your enemy.
When you feel the job is getting easier, ..find a new challenge. It’s the only way to make it in the long run.
The day you stop making mistakes is the day you stop growing.”
- @davidchang, Eat A Peach
“Entitlement and complacency are your enemy.
When you feel the job is getting easier, ..find a new challenge. It’s the only way to make it in the long run.
The day you stop making mistakes is the day you stop growing.”
- @davidchang, Eat A Peach
Reason To Be Accurate Over Being Right 
“We don’t win bets by being in love with our own ideas. We win bets by relentlessly striving to calibrate our beliefs and predictions about the future to more accurately represent the world.”
- @annieduke, Thinking In Bets
“We don’t win bets by being in love with our own ideas. We win bets by relentlessly striving to calibrate our beliefs and predictions about the future to more accurately represent the world.”
- @annieduke, Thinking In Bets
The Psychology of Money 
“Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.”
- @morganhousel
“Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.”
- @morganhousel
Humility: The Learning Muscle
Reacting defensively to accurate feedback creates a barrier for growth.
Humility gives us permission to publicly admit failure. We're then free to explore why.
"Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right."
-John M. Gottman
Reacting defensively to accurate feedback creates a barrier for growth.
Humility gives us permission to publicly admit failure. We're then free to explore why.
"Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right."
-John M. Gottman
Reality is Neutral
"The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.
You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and stimulations (lights, colors & sounds), and then you die.
How you choose to interpret them is up to you--you have that choice.”
- @naval
"The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.
You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and stimulations (lights, colors & sounds), and then you die.
How you choose to interpret them is up to you--you have that choice.”
- @naval
Busy is a Decision
"We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we’re too busy, it is shorthand for 'not important enough.'
Make the time to do the things you want to do and do them."
- @debbiemillman
"We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we’re too busy, it is shorthand for 'not important enough.'
Make the time to do the things you want to do and do them."
- @debbiemillman
You Are Not Your Mind
"The single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it."
- @EckhartTolle
"The single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it."
- @EckhartTolle
Note-Taking As Knowledge Building Blocks 
"Technology doesn’t just make note-taking more efficient. It transforms the very nature of notes.
[each] block stands on its own [yet] can also be combined with others into greater works."
- @fortelabs
https://bit.ly/32a1aA6
![Note-Taking As Knowledge Building Blocks "Technology doesn’t just make note-taking more efficient. It transforms the very nature of notes.[each] block stands on its own [yet] can also be combined with others into greater works."- @fortelabs https://bit.ly/32a1aA6](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El7MskuVMAAoLCY.jpg "Note-Taking As Knowledge Building Blocks \"Technology doesn’t just make note-taking more efficient. It transforms the very nature of notes.[each] block stands on its own [yet] can also be combined with others into greater works.\"- @fortelabs https://bit.ly/32a1aA6")
"Technology doesn’t just make note-taking more efficient. It transforms the very nature of notes.
[each] block stands on its own [yet] can also be combined with others into greater works."
- @fortelabs
https://bit.ly/32a1aA6
MALINVESTMENT
“the result of the inability of human beings to foresee future market conditions correctly.
Such errors are most frequently compounded by distorted price signals...often caused by government intervention or inflation misleading market participants.”
- @mises
“the result of the inability of human beings to foresee future market conditions correctly.
Such errors are most frequently compounded by distorted price signals...often caused by government intervention or inflation misleading market participants.”
- @mises
Write Like You Talk 
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"You don't need complex sentences to express complex ideas.
If you simply manage to write in spoken language, you'll be ahead of 95% of writers."
@paulg (Oct 2015)
Original essay: https://bit.ly/39rAbo4
="You don't need complex sentences to express complex ideas.
If you simply manage to write in spoken language, you'll be ahead of 95% of writers."
@paulg (Oct 2015)
Original essay: https://bit.ly/39rAbo4
Divorce Ideas from their Owners 
Smart people sometimes have poor ideas. 'Dumb' people will sometimes offer up great ideas.
If you need all of your values + beliefs to align perfectly with someone in order to consider their idea, you’ll miss 𝘢𝘭𝘭 opportunities in life.
Smart people sometimes have poor ideas. 'Dumb' people will sometimes offer up great ideas.
If you need all of your values + beliefs to align perfectly with someone in order to consider their idea, you’ll miss 𝘢𝘭𝘭 opportunities in life.
Kind vs. Wicked Learning Environments
[by Robin Hogarth]
Kind: patterns recur, domain-constrained, rigid rules, frequent & accurate feedback, all the information is available
Wicked: information may be hidden, feedback may be delayed, infrequent, nonexistent, or inaccurate
![Kind vs. Wicked Learning Environments [by Robin Hogarth]Kind: patterns recur, domain-constrained, rigid rules, frequent & accurate feedback, all the information is availableWicked: information may be hidden, feedback may be delayed, infrequent, nonexistent, or inaccurate](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErqXATZVEAEtbj5.jpg "Kind vs. Wicked Learning Environments [by Robin Hogarth]Kind: patterns recur, domain-constrained, rigid rules, frequent & accurate feedback, all the information is availableWicked: information may be hidden, feedback may be delayed, infrequent, nonexistent, or inaccurate")
[by Robin Hogarth]
Kind: patterns recur, domain-constrained, rigid rules, frequent & accurate feedback, all the information is available
Wicked: information may be hidden, feedback may be delayed, infrequent, nonexistent, or inaccurate
