7. Understand Human Nature:

We cannot assume that we can change our behavior in any way we please, and with enough time, the new behavior will become a habit.

• Behavior may never become effortless.
• A habit that requires you to sleep only four hours will eventually make you exhausted.
• We have ...

Shock learning is learning that contradicts knowledge that you already have. That’s the kind of learning that generates innovation

If you don’t ignore or resist the unexpected, this “shock” can give you insights to enable you to take advantage of a major change in the marketpl...

This claim(adopted by authors like Sam Harris) argues that we should use the tools of modern science to assess what human beings want and what their characteristics are, for instance, by looking at evolutionary biology or psychology and develop an ethical framework in accordance with human na...