PsychologyThe Emotional Self thrives on ignorance. The moment you are aware of how it operates and dominates you is the moment it loses its hold on you and can be tamed.
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SuccessIt is not a matter of studying a subject for twenty years, and then emerging as a Master. The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
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LeadershipYour task as a strategist is simple: to see the differences between yourself and other people, to understand yourself, yourside and the enemy as well as you can, to get more perspective on events to know things for what they are. This power can only come from knowing when to retreat.
Read more from this book →PsychologyWe are all self-absorbed, locked in our own worlds. It is a therapeutic and liberating experience to be drawn outside ourselves and into the world of another. It is what attracts us to film and any form of fiction, entering the minds and perspectives of people so different from ourselves.
Read more from this book →SuccessGenius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it. Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a miracle.
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Read more from this book →We all know the effects of “hyperintention”: If we want and need desperately to sleep, we are less likely to fall asleep. If we absolutely must give the best talk possible at some conference, we become hyperanxious about the result, and the performance suffers. If we desperately need to find an intimate partner or make friends, we are more likely to push them away. If instead we relax and focus on other things, we are more likely to fall asleep or give a great talk or charm people.
Laws of Human Nature — Robert Greene
Read more from this book →SuccessIn any way possible, you should strive to be a part of this universalizing process, extending your own knowledge to other branches, further and further out. The rich ideas that will come from such a quest will be their own reward.
Read more from this book →LeadershipA critical step in creating an efficient chain of command is assembling a skilled team that shares your goals and values. Be careful in assembling this team that you are not seduced by expertise and intelligence. Character, the ability to work under you and with the rest of the team and the capacity to accept responsibility and to think independently are equally key.
Read more from this book →PsychologyYou must realize that it is not a matter of acquiring skills you do not possess but rather of rediscovering those you once had in your earliest years. This means slowly reversing the process of self-absorption and regaining that outward-directed view and curiosity you had as a child.
Read more from this book →SuccessAnything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.
Read more from this book →LeadershipIn moments of danger refusing to fight is often the best strategy.
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