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Developing the habit of mastering the multiple models which underlie reality is the best thing you can do.
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modeling
Of all the things on my to-do list, what are the 20 percent that will create 80 percent of the results?
Of all the millions of books I could buy, which ones could really change my life?
Which handful of people in my life give me the most happiness, the most meaning, and the greatest connection?
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8020
You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.
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modeling
Over-applying models is no different than a carpenter trying to build a house with one single hammer. All models, no matter how brilliant, are imperfect. The beauty of using multiple and diverse models is that many of the imperfections cancel each other out, allowing you to create a new “emergent” model that transcends all of the other models.
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modeling
Education is not the learning of facts, but training the mind to think.
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education
Don't deny that the customer/patient/student has a problem. If they think they have a problem, they have a problem. It might be that your job is to help them see (over time) that the thing that's bothering them isn't actually a problem, but denying the problem doesn't de-escalate it.
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problem-solving
perspective
Psychology research is teaching us that the image of ourselves that we carry is not a true representation of who we are. Rather, our self-image is an elaborate fiction: an oddly-shaped house constructed from biased perceptions and faulty memories hammered together to form a sense-making narrative.
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self-image
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
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regret
investment
action
“Self-improvement is meaningless if you don’t create something that’s designed to help somebody other than yourself.”
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improvement
The primary problem with the passion hypothesis is that all the attention is focused on the self. One of those [faulty] assumptions is that we as people have preexisting passions we need to “discover” and then follow.
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passion
What you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
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motivation
Once you become comfortable, it’s hard to go back to the discomfort of learning and humility.
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learning
To write is to step away from the current moment. Or to step much deeper into it than you need. Either way, it is always to be one foot askew.
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writing