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Jan 24, 2021 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
In 1983, a 52-year-old senior executive at Texas Instruments was passed over for the company's top job.

He would go on to found and build the most strategically important company in the world.

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Update: This thread on the amazing story of Morris Chang and TSMC had >5 million impressions and was my most liked thread to date.

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May 8
This may be the best definition of success I've ever come across...

Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's 9 Pillars of Success: Image
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote the following passage on his definition of success:

I'd break this down into nine items... Image
1. To laugh often and much: Laughter keeps us young. Without laughter, you aren't really living!

2. To win the respect of intelligent people: Earning the respect of people you admire (my adaptation on "intelligent people") through the way you live your life.
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May 6
In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge:

Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money.

At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy.

What happened next was fascinating: Image
Most of the groups followed a simple approach:

• Use the $5 to buy a few items.
• Barter or resell those items.
• Repeat
• Sell final items for (hopefully) more than $5.

These groups made a modest return on their initial $5.
A few groups ignored the $5.

They thought up ways to make the most money in the allotted time:

• Made/sold reservations at hot restaurants.
• Refilled bike tires on campus.

These groups made a good return on the initial $5.

The winning group took a very different approach:
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Apr 30
Here's the secret of the most charismatic people in the world...

The 3 Levels of Listening: Image
I used to think that being charismatic meant talking the most.

I was wrong.

Charisma is about being interested, not interesting. Charismatic people are present and engaged.

They are exceptional listeners.

I recently learned that there are three levels of listening:
Level 1: "Me" Listening

You're in a conversation, but your internal voice is relating everything you hear to something in your own life.

Your internal voice runs off on tangents while the other person is talking.

You're waiting to speak.

This is the default mode of listening.
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Apr 27
Your entire life will change the moment you...

(thread)
Your entire life will change the moment you…

Stop gathering more information and start acting on the information you already have.
Your entire life will change the moment you…

Stop complaining about things you can’t control and start taking ownership over the things you can.
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Apr 23
I can't stop thinking about this idea...

The 3 Types of Friends:

(everyone should read this) Image
The idea originates from Tyler Perry (portraying his wise Madea alter ego).

It's a brilliant framing for thinking about your relationships.

There are three types of people in your life:

1. Leaves
2. Branches
3. Roots

Here's what they look like...
LEAVES

These are the people that are only around from time to time when the weather is good.

They blow around as the winds change.

They provide shade during the summer, but as soon as winter comes, they fall off the tree and disappear.
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Apr 20
The secret to success that no one tells you about...

Avoiding the Compound Mistake:

(thread) Image
Let's begin by referencing the image made famous by Atomic Habits.

While most of the dialogue focuses on the 1% better every day, which results in a ~38x improvement, the 1% worse every day is just as important:

It effectively zeroes you out—it knocks you out of the game...
When I was playing baseball at Stanford, the coaches had a metric they liked to track for pitchers called the Compound Mistake.

The idea was simple: Image
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