Success Tag Archive

Connect through your superfriends

(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...

September 20, 2019| Life, Nonlinearity Read More

Givers are found at the very top and very bottom

(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...

September 20, 2019| Life Read More

Filtered and Unfiltered leaders: Which one are you?

(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...

September 20, 2019| Life Read More

Tech founders with extreme strength and serious flaws are often the outliers

(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Marc Andreessen spoke at Stanford, saying: . . . the venture capital business is 100 percent a game of outliers, it is extreme outliers . . . We have this...

September 20, 2019| Inversion, Tech Read More

Success is 99.9% luck

(Excerpt from Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb) we often have the mistaken impression that a strategy is an excellent strategy, or an entrepreneur a person endowed with “vision,” or a trader a talented trader,...

September 19, 2019| Randomness, Survivorship Bias Read More

↑