+ No. 494 — October 16th, 2022 — Read on FS +
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++ One of the biggest things that hold people back they're not aware + of: +
++ When we want to improve our value to an organization, we gravitate + toward the skills we need to develop, working extra hours or increasing + our responsibilities. We miss the secret hiding in plain sight: reducing + friction. +
++ — + Source +
++ TKP +
++ Marshall Goldsmith on self-limiting beliefs: +
++ "I think we have a lot of self-limiting beliefs. And the self-limiting + beliefs, a lot of these come from inside us. Basically, I can’t do this. + I can’t do that. This is just the way I am. One of the most common + problems is, this is just the way I am as if we have some “real” fixed + identity that lives throughout time. And I have to really work on people + to change that. Even smart people say things like this, “I can’t listen. + I can’t listen. I’ve never been able to listen.” I’ll look in their + ears. “Why not? You got something stuck in there? Why can’t you listen? + Do you have an incurable genetic defect that is prohibiting you from + listening?” As long as we tell ourselves, “That’s the way I am.” Two + things happen, both bad. One, we inhibit the odds of ever getting + better. Two, even if we do change our behavior we don’t seem authentic + to ourselves. We feel like a phony because if the real me can’t listen + and you say, “I’m a good listener. You know what I’m thinking?” Well, + that’s not the real me. I’m just pretending to be a good listener + because the real me is no good at that.” +
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++ Insight +
++ Jeff Bezos on wandering as a counter-balance to efficiency: +
++ "Sometimes (often actually) in business, you do know where you’re going, + and when you do, you can be efficient. Put in place a plan and execute. + In contrast, wandering in business is not efficient … but it’s also not + random. It’s guided – by hunch, gut, intuition, curiosity, and powered + by a deep conviction that the prize for customers is big enough that + it’s worth being a little messy and tangential to find our way there. + Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency. You need to + employ both. The outsized discoveries – the “non-linear” ones – are + highly likely to require wandering." +
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++ Tiny Thought +
++ There are a lot of things in life that only work when you commit. +
++ I don’t mean dabble. I don’t mean half-in. I mean commit. +
++ Commitment means all in, all the time. +
++ It’s easy to trick yourself into thinking that if you put in half the + effort, you can get 80 percent of the results. While that might work for + some things, it doesn’t work for anything important. +
++ If you’re half trustworthy, you’re not trustworthy. +
++ If you’re often reliable, you’re not reliable. +
++ If you’re mostly consistent, you’re not consistent. +
++ The key to doing anything well is commitment. Not only does commitment + help you become better at what you do, but it also makes other people + want to help you. +
++ If you see your job as punching the clock, not only will you never be + great at it, but your employer won’t invest in you. The best + relationships are the ones where both partners go all in all the time to + make the relationship amazing. +
++ If committing sounds like a lot of work, it is. That’s why so many + people are half-in. The problem with half-in and half-committed is that + it doesn’t get you the results you want. If you're not committed, get + out. +
++ The committed person gets both the opportunity and the results. +
++ All in, all the time. +
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++ Rafal Nadal on why hard is good: +
++ "One lesson I’ve learned is that if the job I do were easy, I wouldn’t + derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct + proportion to the effort I put in before. I also know, from long + experience, that if you make an effort in training when you don’t + especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games + when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships, + that is what separates the great player from the merely good player. The + difference lies in how well you’ve prepared." +
++ — + Source +
++ Fatal flaws that everyone sees: +
++ "Everyone knew, deep-down, that middle-school geometry doomed the + design, but everyone also fervently believed that it could somehow be + overcome by sheer will, or hard work, or a stroke of genius. The theme + here is that the cultures that arise around products, methods, and + inventions often grow to exclude discussion of their fatal flaws, and + instead find elaborate ways to paper over them -- to find more and more + clever ways to pretend they don't exist." +
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