Greg McKeown on unique knowledge
vutran | Jan. 4, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
“Knowledge may open the door to an opportunity, but unique knowledge produces perpetual opportunities” — Effortless Greg McKeown
James Clear On spending time on maximizing strength rather than over-improve weaknesses
vutran | Dec. 24, 2021, 9:39 a.m.
"Don't over-improve your weaknesses. If you're not good at something, work on it until it no longer prevents your progress, but the bulk of your time is better spent maximizing your strengths."
— James Clear
Read More →James Clear on working hard on good ideas
vutran | Dec. 24, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
"If you're not working hard, ideas don’t matter. The best idea is worthless without execution.
If you're already working hard, ideas are crucial. Most effort is wasted on mediocre ideas."
— James Clear
Read More →James Clear on interest precedes results
vutran | Dec. 17, 2021, 2:09 p.m.
"A brief guide to compounding:
If you don’t enjoy something, you won’t stick with it.
If you don’t stick with it, it won’t compound.
Being interested precedes the results."
— James Clear
Latif Nasser on the connection we all share
vutran | Dec. 5, 2021, 7:22 p.m.
"The dead Bodélé Dpression fishy friends dust from Lake Mega Chad have been fertilizing the Amazon for at least a thousand years. Without the world's driest most desolate place, the world's most vital and vibrant place wouldn't be what it is. Out of death, life.
The dead did not die for nothing, they are alive in all kinds of ways you'd never expect:
in a climate-change-fighting plankton bloom,
in a family home that didn't get hit by a hurricane,
in the trees in Brazil, the nuts and berries they produce that you eat everyday
maybe even in the oxygen in the breath you just took.
Science has yet to figure out so many more of these dusty secrets, but there is one thing we know for sure, wherever on this globe you take a breath, you're breathing in somewhere else. For better or worse, we're all connected."
— Latif Nasser, https://www.netflix.com/vn-en/title/81031737?trackId=13752289
Read More →Gail Sheehy on growth
vutran | Dec. 4, 2021, 2:24 p.m.
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning.
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course."
— Gail Sheehy
Read More →James Clear on the unit to measure opportunities
vutran | Dec. 4, 2021, 2:20 p.m.
"When considering a new project or opportunity, one of the first questions to ask is, “How do I want to spend my days?”
Make as few choices as possible that violate your answer.
Many opportunities seem exciting but actually give you less of the life you want."
— James Clear
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