Lucille Clifton on emphasizing joy over status

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:14 p.m.

"One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."

— Lucille Clifton

James Clear on the bottleneck of talent

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:13 p.m.

"Vision is the bottleneck of talent.

Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.

There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters."

— James Clear

James Clear on working on the internal pressure today to handle external pressure tomorrow

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:13 p.m.

"Build before you have to.

- Build knowledge before you have to.

- Build strength before you have to.

- Build an emergency fund before you have to.

Let internal pressure drive you today, so you can handle external pressure tomorrow."

— James Clear

James Clear on the most overlooked growth strategy

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:11 p.m.

"The most overlooked and underappreciated growth strategy is patience.

More specifically, consistently producing great work over a long time horizon." 

— James Clear

Matthew Syed on how to work on a big goal

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:08 p.m.

“If you break down a big goal into small parts, and then improve on each of them, you will gain a huge increase when you put them all together.” 

— Matthew Syed 

Matthew Syed on forming a culture to learn from open and honest about mistakes

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 4:06 p.m.

“If a culture is open and honest about mistakes, the entire system can learn from them. That is the way you gain improvements.” 

— Matthew Syed 

Eleanor Roosevelt on the shortness of life to make all mistakes we need

vutran | Sept. 6, 2020, 3:48 p.m.

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt