11 Highlights From "How To Fail at Almost Everything And Still Win Big"
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1. If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
2. The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know.
2. The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know.
3. The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main metric: my energy.
I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities.
I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities.
4. The easiest way to manage your attitude is to consume as much feel-good entertainment as you can.
5. A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming.
5. A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming.
6. Consider what you were passionate about when you were a child.
There’s a strong connection between what interests you and what you’re good at.
People are naturally drawn to the things they feel comfortable doing, and comfort is a marker for talent.
There’s a strong connection between what interests you and what you’re good at.
People are naturally drawn to the things they feel comfortable doing, and comfort is a marker for talent.
7. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.
8. I credit one of my college friends with teaching me the secret of overcoming shyness by imagining you are acting instead of interacting. And by that I mean literally acting.
9. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
10. Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good.
10. Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good.
11. the primary culprit in your bad moods is a deficit in one of the big five: flexible schedule, imagination, sleep, diet, and exercise.
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