(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) 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...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Gautam Mukunda speculated that the reason for the inconsistency in the research was there are actually two fundamentally different types of leaders. The...
(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Whether you’re listening to Aristotle or the psychologists at Harvard or Jesus Christ or the goddamn Beatles, they all say that happiness comes...
(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Becker called such efforts our “immortality projects,” projects that allow our conceptual self to live on way past the point of our physical...
(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) It’s not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it’s about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the...
