<ul><li>They expect fresh concepts to fail. They assume society isn't ready for or capable of change. Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb.</li><li>If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time. Don't believe them.</li><li>The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.</li></ul>

"That would never work in the real world."— Don't believe them

<ul><li>If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on. You know exactly what the right answer is.</li><li>Best of all, this "solve your own problem" approach lets you fall in love with what you're making.</li><li>What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.</li><li>We had the itch, so we scratched it.</li></ul>

Solve your own problem

<ul><li>Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.</li><li>Besides, the perfect time never arrives.</li><li>As you get going, keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing.</li><li>Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service.</li><li>Design them to be simple.</li></ul>

No Excuses

<ul><li>Service businesses (e.g., consultants, software companies, wedding planners, graphic designers, and hundreds of others) don't require much to get going. If you're running a business like that, avoid outside funding.</li><li>You need less than you think.</li><li>Great companies start in garages all the time. Yours can too.</li><li>Start a business, not a startup.</li></ul>

Avoid Outside Funding

<ul><li>Don't hold everything else up because of a few leftovers. You can do them later.</li><li>Build the necessities now, worry about the luxuries later.</li><li>Meetings are toxic</li><li>Judo solutions are all about getting the most out of doing the least.</li><li>Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions.</li><li>Remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.</li></ul>

Necessities Now, Luxuries Later

<ul><li>Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.</li><li>Instead of entrepreneurs, let's just call them starters.</li><li>You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.</li></ul>

Enough with "entrepreneurs"

<ul><li>There are just too many factors that are out of your hands: market conditions, competitors, customers, the economy, etc. Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you can't actually control.</li><li>If you write a big plan, you'll most likely never look at it anyway.</li><li>Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year.</li><li>Premature hiring is the death of many companies.</li></ul>

Planning is guessing

<ul><li>Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. </li><li>The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done.</li></ul>

Workaholism

<ul><li>You want your customers to say, "This makes my life better." You want to feel that if you stopped doing what you do, people would notice.</li><li>If you're going to do something, do something that matters.</li><li>The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.</li><li>The most important thing is to begin.</li></ul>

This Makes My Life Better

<ul><li>A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.</li><li>You need a commitment strategy, not an exit strategy.</li><li>Lots of things get better as they get shorter.</li><li>Nail the basics first and worry about the specifics later.</li><li>You often can't recognize the details that matter most until after you start building.</li></ul>

Burn The Boats

<ul><li>Don't be afraid of sharing.</li><li>Go behind the scenes.</li><li>Nobody likes plastic flowers.</li><li>Don't be afraid to show your flaws.</li><li>Press releases are spam.</li><li>You want an easily digestible introduction to what you sell.</li><li>Marketing is not a department.</li><li>How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.</li><li>Forget about formal education.</li><li>Hire great writers.</li></ul>

Show Your Flaws

<ul><li>You don't have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.</li><li>A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process.</li><li>It's the stuff you leave out that matters.</li><li>Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential.</li></ul>

Be A Curator

<ul><li>Once your product does what it needs to do, get it out there.</li><li>The quicker it's in the hands of customers, the better off you'll be.</li><li>If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away.</li><li>Your estimates suck.</li><li>Break the big thing into smaller things.</li><li>Start making smaller to-do lists too. Long lists collect dust.</li><li>Make tiny decisions.</li></ul>

Launch now

<ul><li>When you make tiny decisions, you can't make big mistakes.</li><li>Say no by default.</li><li>If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.--HENRY FORD</li><li>Don't confuse enthusiasm with priority.</li><li>Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate.</li></ul>

Say No!

Hire them for a miniproject, even if it's for just twenty or forty hours. You'll see how they make decisions. You'll see if you get along. You'll see what kind of questions they ask. You'll get to judge them by their actions instead of just their words.

Test-drive employees

<ul><li>When something bad happens, tell your customers (even if they never noticed in the first place).</li><li>People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis.</li><li>A good apology accepts responsibility.</li><li>Take a deep breath.</li><li>People are creatures of habit. That's why they react to change in such a negative way.</li></ul>

Own your bad news

<ul><li>There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not f*ck or sh*t.</li><li>They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only, and fast.</li><li>Stop saying ASAP.</li><li>If you want to do something, you've got to do it now. You can't put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can't just say you'll do it.</li></ul>

Four Letter Words

"Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not"

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.

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Career

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Personal Development

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Money & Investments

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Entrepreneurship

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Books

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.  Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses.  What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.

Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals. Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics. Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.

Jason Fried

David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals based in Chicago, Illinois.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Rework

Achievement is addicting and Small victories build confidence.If you're using this app. then you have probably encountered the saying "Set your goals big enough that they scare you" or "If you're dream doesn't scare you then you're not dreaming big enough."Saying "I wanna make 10,000 worth of sales this week" boosts your morale, but then, when you don't achieve it, it demotivates you. Some even fall under the Impostor syndrome "Who am i to do this? I'm not someone who can do this. I'm a failure" and the negative self-talk continues. Worse, you would stop trying to achieve your goals.

Be An Addict

To combat this, a better strategy is to set realistic yet challenging goals. Instead of 10,000 sales a week start with "I wanna make a 1,000 worth of sales this week." Once you did it and see results you will become addicted to it and this small win will give you confidence to reach greater heights.An even better possibility is when you achieve more than what u set out to do. Same goes with vices, if you're a smoker you can't just magically stop in one day. Start by smoking 1 pack, half a pack, then a quarter pack a day. Change it slowly but steady. Consistency is key.

Start Small And Scale Up

Episode 404 - If there is a good addiction, this might be it. I this episode I talk about this "good" addiction and how to make sure you keep the momentum going after the addiction.

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Habits

The Mindset Mentor - Get Addicted to This!

As engineers, we put a lot of value on our skills. We tend to judge others and decide if we respect them based on their skills and expertise.This becomes more apparent when you're in a technical leadership role. Your engineering expertise has a major influence on whether people respect and follow you.It's important to stay up to date and remain an expert in a domain of your preference. If you don't stay up to date, you run the risk of becoming an expert with 10-20 years of experience who gets technically challenged by junior people, which in turn costs you the trust of the engineers you lead.

Remain a technical expert as you grow into leadership roles

📣Join us for a new edition of Talks, Talks #134! ⚙️The journey starts with Daniel Rizea, Director of Engineering @ Fitbit, that will introduce us in Technical Leadership. He will be followed by Marian Staș, Chairman @ Leaders for the Third Millennium Club, that will drive us through Real Leadership in Action.

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📣Join us for a new edition of Talks, Talks #134!
⚙️The journey starts with Daniel Rizea, Director of Engineering @ Fitbit, that will introduce us in Technical Leadership. He will be followed by Marian Staș, Chairman @ Leaders for the Third Millennium Club, that will drive us through Real Leadership in Action.

Softbinator Foundation is an NGO designed to support the developer community in Romania, through events, meetups, workshops and training sessions encouraging networking and good practices exchange between professionals. Talks by Softbinator events were initially organized in Bucharest and since 2019 have been extended  to other cities like Brasov, Constanta. Iasi. The Foundation has full rights over Talks by Softbinator brand.

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Talks #134 Let's Talk About Leadership with Daniel Rizea and Marian Staş

Talks #134 Let's Talk About Leadership with Daniel Rizea

IC track<ol><li>Engineer</li><li>Senior engineer</li><li>Staff engineer</li><li>Senior staff engineer</li><li>Principal engineer</li><li>Distinguished engineer</li></ol>Technical leadership track<ol><li>Engineering manager</li><li>Senior manager</li><li>Director</li><li>VP</li><li>CTO</li></ol>Both tracks have similar levels of prestige, influence and power.

The IC and technical leadership tracks mirror each other all the way up

On the leadership track you don't have enough time to manage a large organization and maintain the same level of technical depth. However, you need to stay technical in order to maintain your technical decision-making sharp, and to gain the credibility of your team. This credibility helps your team understand and respect you enough to want to follow the vision and strategy you want to lead them toward.

Leaders must stay technical to gain the credibility of their teams

<ol><li>Be a voracious reader — Consume technical articles, books, videos, or podcasts.</li><li>Hire well — Hire good technical people because they will teach you things faster than if did on your own. Also, they will eat less of your time than bad hires that are not aligned with the team.</li><li>Review PRs & Clear out bugs — This gives you a ground view on the processes and development environment your team uses daily.</li><li>Create a team of tech advisors — Have a group of people you can discuss technical topics with.</li><li>Code as a hobby</li><li>Participate in hackathons</li></ol>

Tips to stay technical as an engineering leader

Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand explains how to stay technical as an engineering leader while balancing the demands of people leadership.

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Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO

A developer portfolio is a website that showcases your best work, personality and talents. It is your best chance to prove your skills, share your enthusiasm about the profession and give your potential employers and clients a glimpse of how awesome it would be to work with you. LinkedIn pages and résumés are also important, but they focus on work experience and don’t communicate your true value. Résumé is where you talk the talk, and portfolio is where you walk the walk.Read on to learn the most important components of developer portfolios and illustrate them with real-life examples.

What is Developer Portfolio 

<ul><li>Who is your audience? Is portfolio an extension of your CV or a website where you market your skills and sell your services?</li><li>What are they looking for? Employers want to look at your code, your clients don’t care about it</li><li>How will they use your portfolio? Employers want to see your projects and code, while clients take interest in your services, case studies and personality.</li><li>What are their pain points? Employers need a team player who meets deadlines. Clients need trustworthy and reliable devs - use logos and case studies to prove that.</li><li>Why you? What are the benefits of working with you?</li></ul>

Before You Build a Portfolio

<ul><li>Keep your portfolio uncluttered</li><li>Build a straightforward user interface with simple navigation</li><li>Make clear who you are and what you do, add your photo and a hint of your personality </li><li>Make the portfolio scannable - make sure that your layout is perfectly styled, your texts are written in <a href="https://www.iabcwaterloo.com/blog/2020/1/26/the-importance-of-plain-language">plain language</a> and are proofread, all links and interactable objects are up and running.</li><li>Minimize clicks - your projects, code samples, social media and contact form should be only a few clicks away.</li></ul>

1. Keep the Target Audience in Mind

<ul><li>Go mobile or go home. This is the mobile age and it’s your number one priority to develop a mobile-responsive website.</li><li>Optimize website performance. Users are unlikely to wait for more than 3 seconds for your website to load</li><li>Remember accessibility. Make adjustments for people with special needs, disabilities and impairments that can make it difficult for them to navigate your website.</li></ul>

2. Remember UX and UI

<ul><li>Share your code and live products. You can either show the end-products, provide links to code or do both – which approach is best depends on your portfolio’s purpose.</li><li>OR provide code samples and GIFs.</li><li>Supply projects with descriptions and the tech stack used. If you have a lot of projects and technologies used, consider building navigation for them.</li><li>Define the context for which those projects were developed. For example, “a commercial website for a marketing agency” or “a language exchange platform for up to 100k users”.</li><li>Boast freelance & personal projects</li></ul>

3. Showcase Your Best Work and Skills

<ul><li>Use custom domain. </li><li>Make use of introductory statement. Use intro paragraph on your homepage to introduce yourself.</li><li>Use your tone of voice - your choice of words, their order and rhythm.</li><li>Share your motivation (optional) to highlight your ready-for-hard-work mindset. </li></ul>

4. Show Your Personality

Your portfolio and your online presence should communicate a clear and memorable picture of you as a professional.<ul><li>Keep portfolio up-to-date. Update it whenever you finish another project, give a tech talk, start a tech podcast.</li><li>Include testimonials. Include quotes from recommendation letters, write case studies, feedback from work or clients.</li></ul>

5. Maintain personal brand

A few ideas of what goes on the “Contact” page:<ul><li>Contact form. Please note that recruiters want to contact you now and not to fill out a form and wait to see when, if ever, they get a call back.</li><li>Email address. </li><li>Phone number. Probably the best contact option for recruiters and the worst for communicating with clients.</li><li>Hours of availability. Especially useful if you ask your portfolio visitors to contact you via your phone number.</li><li>Social media links. Include only active accounts such as LinkedIn, GitHub and StackOverflow to strengthen your credentials.</li></ul>

6. Encourage Communication

As any other specialists, developers need to market themselves to get dream jobs and projects, attract more clients and reach a desirable level of income. The necessary skills and a killer portfolio website are the two things that you need...

A well-rounded developer portfolio is your chance to advance faster in the career, attract more clients and build a personal brand. In this comprehensive guide we share over 20 tips on how to build a killer developer portfolio.

How to Build Developer Portfolio & Get a Dream Job

The bottom line is time management helps you get the best out of your working life and, well, life life. Here are top ten time management and anti-procrastination tips to improve your working day, which covered in more detail in book <a href="https://bernardmarr.com/books/">Future Skills: The 20 Skills And Competencies Everyone Needs To Succeed In A Digital World</a>.

Time Management

The bottom line is time management helps you get the best out of your working life and, well, life life. Here are top ten time management and anti-procrastination tips to improve your working day, which I cover in more detail in my new book ‘<a href="https://bernardmarr.com/books/">Future Skills: The 20 Skills And Competencies Everyone Needs To Succeed In A Digital World </a>’ :

1. Do the important jobs first. People often like to get the most unpleasant task ticked off the list first, just to get it done. Others like to get quick and easy tasks done first, just to feel like they’re achieving stuff. But it’s far better to prioritize in order of importance, regardless of whether it’s hard or not.

Prioritize

2. Ruthlessly prioritize your time. I like to use the ABC Method to plan my day and prioritize tasks in order of importance. An “A” task is my most important, must-do item for the day (or, if there’s more than one A task, I label them A1, A2, and so on). “B” tasks are secondary tasks that are less important than A tasks – you never move onto a B task while there are still A tasks on the list. And C tasks are those that are nice to get done, but it’s not a big deal if they don’t happen that day. I start every morning with this method, or you can plan ahead a night before.

2. Ruthlessly prioritize your time. I like to use the ABC Method to plan my day and prioritize tasks in order of importance. An “A” task is my most important, must-do item for the day (or, if there’s more than one A task, I label them A1, A2, and so on). “B” tasks are secondary tasks that are less important than A tasks – you never move onto a B task while there are still A tasks on the list. And C tasks are those that are nice to get done, but it’s not a big deal if they don’t happen that day. I start every morning with this method (or you could do it at the end of each day, ready for the next day).

3. Set a time limit for each task. Once I’ve made my to-do list for the day, I set time limits for each task on the list. This ensures I don’t let tasks expand to fill more time than they really need, and it keeps my day manageable because I know what I can realistically achieve.

Set Time Limit

4. Find your productive hours. Productive people don't fill every hour of their day – they know when they work best, and they make sure they get the important stuff done during those hours. Follow their lead and block out your most productive hours (be they in the morning, in the quiet of the evening, or whatever) for the most important tasks. Avoid filling that precious time up with meetings or less important jobs – which are better suited to other times of the day.

Find Your Best Time

5. Don’t multitask. Multitasking is the enemy of productivity because you can end up not doing anything properly. Give one task at a time your full attention, and finish that before moving on to the next item.

Dont Multitask

6. Eliminate distractions. I love working from home, but I recognize that some people find it distracting. It certainly helps to turn off notifications on your phone or turn on your phone's "do not disturb mode" when you need to and set boundaries for anyone sharing your space. (For example, by saying, "For the next hour, I really need to get my head down and concentrate" or "When my office door is closed, it means do not disturb.") The same tips also apply when you're in an office environment.

Eliminate Distractions

7. Learn to say no. Saying no – politely but firmly – is an art form, and if you can master it, you’ll feel much more in control of your time. Very often, it’s not even a case of saying no but setting expectations for when you can do something – for example, by saying something like “I can’t do this until next week.”

Learn To Say "No"

8. Weigh up the consequences of doing something versus not doing it. If you’re really procrastinating, ask yourself, "What will happen if I don't get this done?" If the answer is "Er, not much," then it's probably not that important. But if you know, there might be serious consequences if you put it off, that might give you the extra motivational nudge you need.

Think About It

9. Understand that sometimes – just sometimes – procrastination can be a good thing. The urge to procrastinate might be telling you something (for example, that you’re tired and need a break). And sometimes, the mind just needs a bit of time to wander, imagine and be creative – and that’s also a good thing.

Understand Yourself

10. Finally, if you find yourself not wanting to do many of the tasks associated with your to-do list, then maybe it's time to switch jobs! Seriously, ask yourself whether it's really the right job for you because it's not "normal" to dislike your job or feel constantly demotivated.

Know When To Move

How to get better in our work-life balance.

In this article, we look at the top ten time management tips that will make anyone more productive and help you avoid procrastination. 

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The Top 10 Time Management Tips To Work Smarter, Not Harder

1. Time is more valuable than money2. Commit random acts of kindness3. No balls, no babies (Once you are prepared, you have to go for it)4. Work hard, play hard5. Don’t let fear be a roadblock6. Expect the unexpected, and always be ready7. It’s okay to yell and be yelled at8. Everyone gets down; the key is how soon you get back up9. It’s not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it’s who is pouring the water10. It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing11. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered12. You only have to be right once

Twelve Cuban Mantras for Success

<ol><li>Recognize that it’s okay to live like a student.</li><li>The cheaper you can live, the greater your options. Remember that.</li><li>Take lots of chances: It means trying different things to find out what it is you love to do.</li><li>Figure out if you are in the right job.</li><li>Figure out how to be the best.</li><li>Start the day motivated with a positive attitude.</li></ol>

WTF To-Do List

1. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love.2. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession. 3. Hire people who you think will love working there. 4. Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales. 5. Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them.

Twelve Cuban Rules for Startups

6. Don't worry about perks from the outset.7.Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up.8. As far as technology, go with what you know.9. Keep the organization flat.10. NEVER EVER EVER buy swag.11. NEVER EVER EVER hire a PR firm.(Public Relation)12. Make the job fun for employees.(reward them)

<ul><li>I wrote overviews of what I was selling, why I thought the business made sense, an overview of my competition, why my product and/or service would be important to my customers and why they should buy or use it.</li><li>Once I could put the idea on paper, I gave the company a name.</li><li>I tried to find people to shoot holes in the name.</li><li>It’s as if the missing link for success in a business is cash to get started. It’s not.</li></ul>

How To Start A Business 

<ul><li>The minute you take money, the leverage completely flips to the investor. They control the destiny of your dreams, not you.</li><li>There are only two reasonable sources of capital for startup entrepreneurs: your own pocket and your customers’ pockets.</li><li>Businesses don’t have to start big.</li><li>It’s okay to start slow. It’s okay to grow slow.</li></ul>

Raising Cash Is The Biggest Mitsake

<ul><li>Sweat equity is the best startup capital.</li><li>The best businesses in recent entrepreneurial history are those that began with little or no money. Dell Computers, Microsoft, Compaq, Apple, HP and tens of thousands of others started in dorm rooms, tiny offices or garages.</li><li>The reality is that for most businesses, they don’t need more cash, they need more brains.</li></ul>

Start Small

<ul><li>Get the fundamentals right and then add to your base skills before you try to take on the trick shots.</li><li>If you are adding new things when your core businesses are struggling rather than facing the challenge, you are either running away or giving up. Rarely is either good for a business.</li><li>Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.</li><li>We tend to be less than honest with ourselves about our strengths and weaknesses.</li></ul>

Fundamentals

“The worst evaluator of talent is a player trying to evaluate himself.”

<ul><li>It’s always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.</li><li>I read more than three hours almost every day, but it gives me a level of comfort and confidence in my businesses.</li><li>I spend time in bookstores because one idea from a book or magazine can make me money.</li><li>As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.</li></ul>

LifeLong Learner

<ul><li>The thing you do need to do is learn. Learn accounting. Learn finance. Learn statistics. Learn as much as you can about business.</li><li>Read biographies about businesspeople.</li><li>Going to college should be about learning how to learn and recognizing that learning is a lifelong endeavor.</li><li>School isn’t the end of the learning process, it’s purely a training ground and beginning.</li></ul>

Learning == Earning

<ul><li>Once you have learned how to learn, then you can try as many different things as you can, recognizing that you don’t have to find your destiny at any given age—you just have to be prepared to run with it when you do.</li><li>The greatest obstacle to destiny is debt, both personal and financial.</li><li>The more people you are obligated to, the harder it is to focus on yourself and figure things out.</li><li>Financial debt is the ultimate dream killer.</li></ul>

Learn How To Learn To Earn

“Your biggest enemies are your bills. The more you owe, the more you stress.The more you stress over bills, the more difficult it is to focus on your goals.”

<ul><li>Everyone follows the path of least resistance.</li><li>The path of least resistance is why I think Amazon.com, Apple and Google have been so successful.</li><li>In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and to sell.</li><li>Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.</li></ul>

Path Of Least Resistance 

<ul><li>Always ask yourself how someone could preempt your products or service.</li><li>Always run your business like you are going to be competing with biggest technology companies in your industry—Google, Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, whomever.</li><li>The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It’s 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.</li><li>The biggest mistake people make is getting too greedy.</li></ul>

Ultimate Competition 

<ul><li>In sports, the only thing a player can truly control is effort. The same applies to business.</li><li>I had to kick myself in the ass and recommit to getting up early, staying up late and consuming everything I possibly could to get an edge.</li><li>Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.</li></ul>

Effort

<ul><li>The edge is getting so jazzed about what you do.</li><li>The edge is knowing that you can fail and learn from it, and just get back up.</li><li>The edge is knowing that people think you’re crazy, and they are right, but you don’t care what they think.</li><li>The edge is knowing how to blow off steam a couple times a week, just so you can refocus on business.</li><li>The edge is recognizing when you are wrong and working harder to make sure it doesn’t happen again.</li></ul>

What Is Edge?

<ul><li>“Everyone has got the will to win; it’s only those with the will to prepare that do win.”</li><li>Win the battles you are in first, then worry about expansion internationally or into new businesses.</li><li>Jobs = getting paid to learn.</li><li>Take the lead, and you can control your own destiny.</li><li>Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but are cheap.</li></ul>

Hire The Best

<ul><li>Every day some stranger somewhere in the world is trying to come up with a way to put you out of business. To take everything you have worked your ass off for, just take it all away. How cool is that?!</li><li>Never settle. There is no reason to rush. If you aren’t happy with where you are, simplify your life and go out and try as many things as it takes to find what you may be destined to be.</li></ul>

Try Out Many Things

<ul><li>In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.</li><li>One single time and you are set for life. That’s the beauty of the business world.</li><li>With every mistake and failure (not only mine, but also of those around me), I learned what not to do.</li><li>I’ve learned to hire people in whom I can build trust, and let them take the ball and run with it.</li></ul>

Only One Single Time

The point of all this is that it doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and from those around you because … All that matters in business is that you get it right once.When I spent far too much time fixing things rather than selling new deals, it killed my business.

Learn From Failures

“Every no gets me closer to a yes.”

<ul><li>The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer’s shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy.</li><li>The best salesperson is the one the customer trusts and never has to question.</li><li>The best salesperson is the one who takes immense satisfaction from the satisfaction her customer gets.</li></ul>

 Most Important Job In Every Company

<ul><li>Entrepreneurs always need to be reminded that it’s not the job of their customers to know what they don’t.</li><li>It’s part of your job as the owner of the company to stay ahead of them and “kick your own ass” before someone else does.</li><li>No company is perfect, but the CEO who doesn’t listen to direct feedback from customers will not take the company as far as it can go.</li></ul>

Kick Your Own Ass

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are—not what other people want you to be.

Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS. "It's New Year's resolution time, and Mark Cuban's new book offers the rationale for a good one." —BUSINESS INSIDER Using the greatest material from his popular Blog Maverick, Cuban has collected and updated his postings on business and life to provide a catalog of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. He tells his own rags-to-riches story of how he went from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends' couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion dollar success story. His unconventional yet highly effective ideas on how to build a successful business offer entrepreneurs at any stage of their careers a huge edge over their competitors. "In short, [HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS] exceeded...expectations. Short chapters...got right to the point and were not filled with 'stuffing'." —HUFFINGTON POST

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Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS. "It's New Year's resolution time, and Mark Cuban's new book offers the rationale for a good one." —BUSINESS INSIDER Using the greatest material from his popular Blog Maverick, Cuban has collected and updated his postings on business and life to provide a catalog of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. He tells his own rags-to-riches story of how he went from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends' couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion dollar success story. His unconventional yet highly effective ideas on how to build a successful business offer entrepreneurs at any stage of their careers a huge edge over their competitors. "In short, [HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS] exceeded...expectations. Short chapters...got right to the point and were not filled with 'stuffing'." —HUFFINGTON POST

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<ul><li>People who continue to come to work every day and do their job, but maybe aren't going above and beyond-they're turning off notifications and not answering work emails at 10 p.m.</li><li>Quiet quitting is simply people looking for a little more work-life balance, while actually putting in the work.</li></ul>

Quiet Quitting

<ul><li>The pandemic has been the catalyst for a lot of people to recognize what's most important in their lives.</li><li>Returning to the office may have been the final straw for many workers-especially, as more surveys found that very few people want to stop working from home.</li></ul>

Why "Quiet Quitting" Is Happening

<ul><li>Snooze notifications from Slack and work emails when your workday is done, and don't accept work calls after a certain hour.</li><li>Set up automatic responses to any communication to say when you'll be available next to respond.</li></ul>

Use Tech In Your Favor

Golden hours are essentially our best times of day for deep thinking, creative thinking, and strategic thinking.Don't let work eat up all those hours with administrative tasks or things that don't rise to the level of importance on that priority list above.

Take Advantage of Your "Golden Hours"

Vacation is supposed to be time away from work.So make sure you get that.

Unplug On Vacation

If you've been a 24/7 worker, you may need to reeducate your team and your supervisor about when you're available.Say simply, “I won’t be available after 7 p.m., but will be able to get back to you first thing in the morning." If you receive pushback, ask for specifics about why that's an issue.

Communicate Your Boundaries With Your Team

If your workplace isn't inspiring a lot of loyalty or engagement from you, it might be time to look for your next big thing-especially right now, when it's still a job seeker's market.

Get Your Supporters (And Your Portfolio) In Order

Or is it just...doing your job? See why the latest workplace buzzword, "quiet quitting," is a bit controversial—and how you can set boundaries if you're feeling burned out.

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Life has pretty similar path for most of us: we are born, our parents take care of us, we get educated, we figure out a way to sustain ourselves, we form a family, we have our own kids, we grow old and then we die. Such a great note to start this article on isn’t it?In it we’re going to focus on the education part, since it takes a bulk of your life – most people spend 12 years or more in the educational system – assuming an 80 year average lifespan, that’s over 15% of your life.

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I am now going to university. A fresh new start, yet I feel more lost in life than ever. This article explains how a few tweaks in the education system can make us better prepared individuals in the long run.

Here's a list of things we wishes we were taught in school as we were getting educated. From Money, to Happiness, to Mental Health, school is failing.

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