(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) The power law is not just important to investors; rather, it’s important to everybody because everybody is an investor. An entrepreneur makes a major investment just by...
(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) Instead of working for years to build a new product, indefinite optimists rearrange already-invented ones. Bankers make money by rearranging the capital structures of already...
(Extracted from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) You can expect the future to take a definite form or you can treat it as hazily uncertain. If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) The study came up with four metrics that matter most: 1. HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2....
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Most of us use our calendars all wrong: we don’t schedule work; we schedule interruptions. Meetings get scheduled. Phone calls get scheduled. Doctor...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Isaacson said, “One of his strengths as a thinker, if not as a parent, was that he had the ability, and the inclination, to tune out all distractions, a...
(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Another study, titled “Tell Me What I Did Wrong,” showed that a shift takes place when people are on the path to expertise. Novices seek and need positive...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) … there’s an 80/20 rule of sorts in networking. You probably met the vast majority of your friends through a handful of “superfriends”—the...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) So there are successful extroverts and introverts and the world definitely needs both, but chances are, you’re not really either one. Yes, one-third of...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) When Wharton School professor Adam Grant looked at who ended up at the bottom of success metrics, he found an awful lot of nice guys—“Givers.” In...
