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Mar 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Feedback is a gift that can unlock the fullest potential of your team.
But, there’s an art to it.
Here’s what I’ve learned from the world’s best Coaches to inspire others and achieve the impossible: 1. Keep The Positive Personal;
Make The Negative Technical
Triumph their wins.
Rather than attach blame to failure, key in on the technical or tactical solutions.
If you model Extreme Ownership,
They’ll follow.
Mar 10 • 25 tweets • 2 min read
Ego is the Enemy is a book every aspiring leader should read.
23 quotes to remove your ego, and lead with humility:
Ego inhibits true success,
By preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
Mar 3 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
What makes a good life?
Since 1938, a Harvard study has spanned 4 generations to find the answer.
21 lessons from the longest study of health and happiness in human history:
Spoiler alert:
The good life is a complicated life.
For everybody.
The good life is joyful … and challenging.
Full of love, but also pain.
And it never strictly happens; instead, the good life unfolds, through time.
It is a process.
Feb 24 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Hard Thing About Hard Things
Is the first book I recommend to anyone at a startup.
Here are 22 reasons why:
The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal.
The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal.
Feb 10 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
Never Split The Difference is a must read to master the art of negotiation.
If you’re too busy, just read this:
If you approach negotiation thinking that the other guy thinks like you;
You’re wrong.
That’s not empathy, that’s projection.
Jan 20 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Life isn’t chess, it’s poker.
22 insights to make smarter decisions in the game of life:
The quality of our lives is the sum of decision quality plus luck.
Nov 11, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Alchemist is the one book that everyone should read.
I revisit this story by @paulocoelho every year.
And, every time it takes on a new meaning.
Here are 21 of my favorite passages:
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve:
The fear of failure.
Oct 28, 2023 • 25 tweets • 2 min read
Learn to argue like you’re right..
But, listen like you’re wrong.
23 ideas to Think Again:
Progress is impossible without change.
And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
Aug 26, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
If you want a new job, read The StartUp of You.
If you’re too busy, just read this:
All humans are entrepreneurs..
Not because they should start companies;
But, because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
Aug 19, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Naval has an uncanny ability to articulate a book’s worth of wisdom into a single sentence.
22 insights that could change your life:
Become the best in the world at what you do.
Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Aug 12, 2023 • 35 tweets • 4 min read
If you want to run a company, read Effective Executive.
Or don’t, and end up like SBF.
30+ timeless lessons to make sure you get the right things done:
Effective executives do first things first..
And they do one thing at a time.
They do not make a great many decisions..
They concentrate on the important ones.
Aug 5, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Tony Fadell invented the iPod.
Then he founded Nest and led it to a $3.2 billion Google acquisition.
22 Lessons To Build A Company:
Do, Fail, Learn.
The rest will follow.
Jul 28, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
You’re always an imposter.
Until you’re not..
How to silence your imposter syndrome and level up with confidence:
First, what is imposter syndrome?
It’s a phenomenon in which someone doubts their:
• Skills
• Talents
• Accomplishments
And, has a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud.
Essentially, you attribute your success to dumb luck, and believe it is undeserved.
Jul 22, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Hard Thing About Hard Things
Is the first book I recommend to anyone at a startup.
Here are 22 reasons why:
The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal.
The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal.
Jul 15, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
At 19, he dropped out of college with nothing but hustle and a dream.
40 years later, Don Peebles has built a real estate empire worth $8 Billion.
Win any deal using the Peebles Principles: 1. Control The Deal
When going into any major deal, you need absolute control over some key element.
If you want to win as an entrepreneur..
Never negotiate a deal unless YOU are essential to it.
Jul 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Feedback is a gift that unlocks the potential of others.
But, there’s an art to it..
8 ways the world’s best Coaches inspire others to achieve the impossible:
Keep The Positive Personal;
Negative Technical
Triumph their wins.
Rather than attach blame to failure, key in on the technical or tactical solutions.
If you model Extreme Ownership, they’ll follow.
Jun 25, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Everybody wants to get rich, but being wealthy is all that matters.
22 timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness:
Saving is a hedge against life’s inevitable ability..
..to surprise the hell out of you at the worst possible moment.
Jun 20, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Wearable Devices
Do you need one?
How will you use the data?
Some thoughts on blending the art & science of training decisions:
First, lets answer a basic question:
Do you need to track your health & fitness data?
*It Depends*
IMO you earn the right to incorporate data..
If lifestyle factors are lacking, precision is far less relevant.
You just need to start moving, eat, and sleep a little better.
Jun 17, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Never Split The Difference is a must read to master the art of negotiation.
If you’re too busy, just read this:
If you approach negotiation thinking that the other guy thinks like you;
You’re wrong.
That’s not empathy, that’s projection.
Jun 10, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book everyone should read.
But, only 7% of people who’ve started it ever made it to the end.
21 insights from the best book you never finished:
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent;
..don’t use complex language where simpler language will do.
Jun 3, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Ray Dalio started playing the markets at 12.
Since then, he’s built the world’s largest hedge fund with $150 billion under management.
22 notes on life and business
from the legendary investor:
Imagine that in order to have a great life, you have to cross a dangerous jungle.
You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life,
Or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life.