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Check Your Ego
We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
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Introverts Do Have Great Ideas
You don’t need to be loud to have great ideas. There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
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Do What You Do Best
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers — of persistence, concentration, and insight — to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.
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Honor Yourself
The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.
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Be Persistent
Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the 1%. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other 99%.
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Get In The Flow
Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity…In a state of flow, you’re neither bored nor anxious, and you don’t question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.
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