In school we get used to a set feedback loop. We study for a test, take the test, and then receive a grade. Only after we receive this grade do we determine “how well we did.” But there’s a problem here. Yes our level of preparation is a factor in the final grade that we …
Airbnb started as a way for people to stay on the couch or airbed (the name comes from Airbed and Breakfast) of a local person when they travel. But that’s not their business anymore. I’ve stayed in countless Airbnbs, but never with the landlord staying under the same roof. More often than not, I actually …
Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time. Charlie Munger -Brandon
Progress throughout a physical practice is fascinating. By the end of a productive session, we’re better than we were when we started. Often significantly. This is true for anything from sports to music, and just about anything else that involves motor skills. But muscles don’t develop that quickly. We aren’t better at hitting a tennis …
I now only lift weights three days per week. And in those three days, each muscle group is only hit once. That means that I only get one chance per week to make a difference. Back when I lifted five or six days per week, there was always a backup plan. If I didn’t give …
Electric motors are much quieter than gasoline engines. Yet customers report the noise from the motors to be more annoying than engine noise. The problem is the type of noise that electric motors make. Rather than the deeper “growl” from an engine that car-enthusiasts have come to love, electric motors emit a higher pitched “whine.” …
When playing cards or a word-based game like Scrabble, simply changing the order of your hand can be a surprisingly effective way to see connections that we couldn’t see before. A similar approach can be effective when we face a difficult problem in the real world. Rather than approaching it the same way we also …
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. Steven Pressfield, The War of Art -Brandon
I recently caught myself in a foolish line of thinking. I had the option between spending free time working on my latest basement renovation project or enjoying downtime with people I like to be around. My initial reaction was that I had to work. My project is taking longer than I had originally estimated, and …
Nearly all of us say that we want feedback. We want to understand how things are going so we can improve. We want to know why we lost so we can be better next time. But more often than not, we go into defense mode as soon as this feedback comes out. We complain about …