Try to apply the "insanely great" standard on a daily basis to everything you do and see how far you get.Generally people lower their standards to move things along, don't do that. You have to fight this impulse every step of the way.

The "Insanely Great" Standard

“Priority” should ideally only be used as a singular word. The moment you have many priorities, you actually have none.

It is common for people to ask to get back to others within a week or more. Instead of expanding times, you should start compressing cycle times.If we just change our mindset we can move so much quicker and this means working under a sense of energy and urgency.Good performers crave a culture of energy.

Crave a Culture of Energy

Hiring is hard but firing is even harder. If we know that something or someone is not working out, why should we wait to pull the trigger? When there is doubt, there is no doubt.

Don't be Scared of Firing People

Good leaders are honest, they explain that none of us are truly safe in our roles for any length of time. If this fact makes people uncomfortable, that's good. You need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because the only alternative is denialism.

Good Leaders are Honest

Seek to exploit every ounce of potential you are entrusted with.If you want to win big, imagine a radically different future that is not tethered to the past. This is why innovation always seems to come from the least expected places. They don't have a past to care about.

Don't Settle for Respectable Mediocrity

If you don't know how to execute, every strategy will fail, even the most promising ones.Execution is hard, and great execution is scarce—which makes it another great source of competitive advantage.

No Strategy is Better than its Execution

Culture describes how people come together as a group on a day‐to‐day basis. It is not about making people feel good per se, it’s about enabling the mission with the behaviors and values that serve that purpose.If you want to create a strong culture, you have to drive a more consistent set of behaviors, norms, and values and most importantly you have to focus on consistent and clearly defined consequences, day in and day out.You know you have created a good culture when most of the organization is willing to defend and promote those values and call out deviations on a day‐to‐day basis.

Building a Strong Culture

To truly inspire trust, underpromise and overdeliver.

The key takeaways while creating a company are:<ul><li>Attack weakness, not strength.</li><li>Either create a cost advantage or neutralize someone else's.</li><li>It's much easier to attack an existing market than create a new one.</li><li>Early adopters buy differently than later adopters.</li><li>Stay close to home in the early going.</li><li>Build the whole product or solve the whole problem as fast as you can.</li><li>Bet on the correct enabling technologies.</li><li>Architecture is everything.</li><li>Prepare to transform your strategy sooner than you expect.</li></ul>

Key Takeaways

There are two kind of people in companies, drivers and passengers.Passengers are people that live with the "enough" attitude, meaning that they want to do only what is expected and nothing more.Drivers on the other hand get their satisfaction from making things happen, not blending in with the furniture. They like to take ownership, drive initiatives, motivate people...You should have a company full of drivers.

Drivers and Passengers

Nothing puts rocket fuel in your career tank more than what other people say about you. Bosses, peers, and subordinates will all have strong opinions about what you're like to work with.Smart managers know that for anyone well beyond entry level, exhaustive referencing builds a clearer portrait of a candidate than any number of interviews.

Care About What Others Say About You

Essential reads for entrepreneurial growth, curated by Lenny Rachitsky.

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Frank Slootman explains in his book how to lead for hypergrowth by raising the expectations, increasing urgency and elevating intensity.

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller The secret to leading growth is your mindset Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity, he shares his leadership approach for the first time. Amp It Up delivers an authoritative look at what it takes to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. Slootman shows that most leaders have significant room to improve their organization's performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure, or fundamental business model—and they don’t need to bring in an army of consultants to do it. What they do need is to align people around what matters and execute with urgency and intensity every day. Leading for unprecedented growth means declaring war on mediocrity, breaking the status quo, and making conflicted choices daily, all with a relentless focus on the mission. Amp It Up provides the first principles to guide that change, and the tactical advice for organizing a company around them. Perfect for executives, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and leaders of all kinds, Amp It Up is a must-read resource for anyone who seeks to unleash the growth potential of a company and scale it to heights they never thought possible.

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller The secret to leading growth is your mindset Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity, he shares his leadership approach for the first time. Amp It Up delivers an authoritative look at what it takes to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. Slootman shows that most leaders have significant room to improve their organization's performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure, or fundamental business model—and they don’t need to bring in an army of consultants to do it. What they do need is to align people around what matters and execute with urgency and intensity every day. Leading for unprecedented growth means declaring war on mediocrity, breaking the status quo, and making conflicted choices daily, all with a relentless focus on the mission. Amp It Up provides the first principles to guide that change, and the tactical advice for organizing a company around them. Perfect for executives, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and leaders of all kinds, Amp It Up is a must-read resource for anyone who seeks to unleash the growth potential of a company and scale it to heights they never thought possible.

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Amp It Up

Managing other people’s bad moods and difficult emotions well is an ability that can be practiced and strengthened.While it’s not possible to fix another person’s emotional struggles, there are a handful of practical skills you can learn to help you be more genuinely supportive and helpful in the face of other people’s bad moods.

You Need to be Good at Managing Bad Moods and Difficult Emotions

Giving advice to someone who’s emotionally overwhelmed is unhelpful at best, and usually counterproductive.Thinking of someone's emotions as a puzzle puts us in a mindset of curiosity. And when we’re curious about another person’s emotion, it’s far easier to be validating, understanding, and empathetic, which is what most people experiencing strong emotion really want.

Treat Strong Emotion as a Puzzle, Not a Problem

Instead of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, reverse empathy means trying to remember a time when you wore the same shoes.The more you can relate yourself to what they’re going through, the better your odds of being genuinely helpful and supportive to the person next to you, not to mention being less reactive and emotional yourself.

Try Some Reverse Empathy

The reality is that people struggling emotionally don’t want someone to fix their pain, they want to feel understood.In order to let people feel understood, you could use a technique called reflective listening. Reflective listening means that when someone tells you something, you simply reflect back to them what they said, either literally or with your own slight spin on it.

Be a Mirror, Not a Mechanic

Once we’re deep into a spiral of our own difficult emotion, it’s hard to have enough mental and emotional bandwidth to navigate both our own mood and that of someone else.The solution is to get better at noticing and managing our own emotional responses early so that they don’t balloon out of control. And the best way I know of to do that is through a process called emotional validation.Emotional validation simply means acknowledging our own emotions and reminding ourselves that they’re okay and reasonable even if uncomfortable.

Validate Your Own Emotions

So much unnecessary struggle, conflict and wasted energy comes from a fundamental misunderstanding about what’s really under our control.When you stop expecting to be able to make someone feel better, you can start taking real steps to connect with them in a heartfelt way and be genuinely supportive.

Clarify Your Responsibility

Having the ability to properly handle other people's bad mood is a skill that anyone should possess. However, it is not so easy to become skilled at this, for a wide variety of complicated reasons. In this article the author goes through some tips on how to handle other people's moods like a pro.

It's really hard to be around people who are in a bad mood. Here are 5 practical skills to deal more effectively with other people's bad moods.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form of structural competitive advantage: A defensibility mechanism that protects their margins and profits from competitors over long periods of time.

What Differentiates the World's Most Successful Companies?

A good part of the most successful companies leverage the power of the network effect as their competitive advantage.Network effects occur when the value of a product or service is subject to the number of users. A positive network effect means that a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it.

The Power of the Network Effect

There are several types of network effect that should be properly understood:<ul><li>Direct network effects: they occur when the number of users has a direct impact on the value of a product.</li><li>Indirect network effects: they occur in two-sided (or multi-sided) products where the size of one user group affects how valuable the product is to another user group.</li><li>Data network effects: describes products which become better with more users via the data those users generate.</li></ul>

Types of Network Effect

Switching costs describe how difficult or expensive it is for a user to switch from one product to another.Multihoming costs explain how easy or likely it is to use multiple competing networks simultaneously.In general, the higher the switching and multihoming costs, the more defensible a network typically becomes.

Switching and Multihoming Costs

Telephone and railroads companies are more defensible than companies such as Facebook and Google because their business mainly relies on atoms instead of bits. In contrast to bits, atoms have marginal costs. You can copy and paste a piece of software at virtually zero cost, but producing an additional piece of hardware has all sorts of marginal costs associated with it. This means that atom-based network effect businesses have switching and multihoming costs.

Atom-based Network Effect Businesses

Value chains are horizontal visualizations of all the value-adding business activities involved in creating a product or service from start to finish.Value chains are great to analyze traditional businesses and industries but they are not a very useful framework for tech companies.

The Idea of Value Chains

If you want to understand the power dynamics between different platforms, aggregators and other players in a tech ecosystem, it’s better to look at them as a vertical stack with different layers.On each layer of the stack, companies are trying to create value and to capture value. The lowest layers of the stack are typically the most powerful. If you are able to take control of a layer, you can dictate the terms of most of the value creation and value capture that is happening in the layers above you.

The Vertical Stack

As a result of the vertical stack, companies are trying to:<ol><li>Create layers on top of their business (everyone wants to be a platform)</li><li>Move down the stack to get closer to the base layer (to increase defensibility)</li></ol>

What Companies Do?

The base layer is the final interface between the stack and the end user – which is typically an operating system tied to a piece of hardware.

The Base Layer

But what if the end of the stack isn’t an interface? What if the lowest possible layer in the stack is actually the user itself?Identity is a crucial component of almost every single layer in the stack. Every network is just a collection of nodes and if you want to build connections between those nodes you need an identity layer. Even in a pseudonymous network, each user has a consistent identifier.Unsurprisingly, dozens of companies are trying to become the default identity layer.

The Identity Layer

We all know that, the more a product is used, the more it will be used. The problem is that, our understanding of this phenomenon is quite limited. What if we tried to better understand the dynamics behind it? This article is a great read for anyone that would like more insights on this interesting topic.

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Your salary negotiation — which routinely takes less than 5 minutes to conclude — has an outsized influence on what your compensation is.That makes your negotiation five very important minutes. Indeed, you can trivially pick up $5,000 in salary negotiations just by sucking less.

The Importance of Negotiation

The reality is that rich, successful people negotiate. It is an all-day-every-day thing in much of the business world, which is where most rich people get their money.

Successful People Negotiate

Salary negotiations are very asymmetrical.  Companies know this and routinely exploit it. Job seekers don’t, perhaps because they think doing so would be unfair and the word “exploit” makes them acutely uncomfortable. So we often default by pretending that the employer is evaluating the negotiation like we would. This is not true, and acting like it is true will harm both your interests and the interests of your future employer.

Negotiations Are Asymmetrical

The job of recruiters is to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible, but generally a recruiter is not super motivated to do so, because it is not spending its money to hire you. A recruiter is spending its budget.This is an interesting perspective that can be leveraged to increase the salary even by an “insignificant” number.

The Job of Recruiters

Only negotiate salary after you have agreement in principle from someone with hiring authority that, if a mutually acceptable compensation can be agreed upon, you will be hired.

When To Negotiate

If you think about it, you’ll quickly reach the conclusion that the company has spent thousands of dollars just talking to you, and that doesn’t even count the thousands they spent deciding to talk to you instead of whoever isn’t in the room right now.For this reason, they really want to reach an agreement with you.When you have the offer, you are now in control of the company, because they want you and spent a lot of money to arrive to you. Thus, it is in their interest to hire you.

The Company Wants to Reach an Agreement

You are an expert in your own skill set, life story, and (ideally) value you can create for the company. However, the person you are talking to is not.If they ever resist about something which you want, consider reaching into the treasure chest that they are buying mostly blind and revealing one of the many glittering jewels inside. They are going to get them all anyhow if they buy the chest, but each one you bring out decreases the perceived risk of buying it and therefore increases its perceived value.

Reveal Your Glittering Jewels

“Interesting” is a wonderful word: it is positive and non-commital at the same time. If they tell you a number, tell them it is an “interesting” number, not a “wonderful” number.

Micro-tip

We are used to think that negotiating salary is bad and we tend to compare it to exploitation, however, the sooner we realize that this is objectively false the better.

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $9M+.

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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Success is not the result of any single quality; it’s about alignment between who you are and where you choose to be.People often say that effort is the number-one predictor of success, but research shows it’s actually one of the worst.

What is success?

Invest in strength versus lack of weakness. While improving yourself is noble and necessary, research shows that many of the more fundamental aspects of personality don’t change. Traits like verbal fluency, adaptability, impulsivity, and humility are stable from childhood through adulthood.

Invest in strength

The science of luck is about encountering new opportunities which can be simpler if you are an extrovert.

The science of luck

Dealing with other people is a huge part of what most of us do, and how we get along with others is often key to success.As a rule of thumb for meeting new people, assume the other people will like you and they probably will.

Dealing with others

It is better to give than to receive, therefore look for opportunities to do something for other people (e.g., sharing knowledge).

The art of giving

Find a mentor! You don’t have time to make all the mistakes yourself, and of course making those mistakes can mean failure.It’s better to let others make those mistakes and you can learn from them. Great mentors and great teachers help you learn faster.

Mentorship is essential

When pessimism teams-up with ambition it often produces outstanding performance.To be the very best at anything, you will need to be your harshest critic, and that is almost impossible when your starting point is high self-confidence.

Pessimism + ambition = 🤯

What is takes to be successful? Many self-improvement books try to motivate the reader through phrases which are mostly meaningless. In this book, the author uses science and statistics to objectively show how to be successful (in our society).

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

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Wall Street Journal BestsellerMuch of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers• Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-ManBy looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center. His new bestseller, “Plays Well with Others,” was released by HarperCollins in May of 2022.

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Emotion management is how you react when you get hit with strong emotions (e.g. how do you handle a sudden spike in anxiety?).

What is emotion management?

Most of us don't learn much about emotion. We have pretty crude and unsophisticated emotion management skills which translate to the simple solution of "just ignore it" or "there is a pill for that".

We don't learn about emotion

Our long-term success in any major area of life depends upon our ability to effectively manage our emotions, especially the big scary ones.

Emotion management and long-term success

A few observations about emotion management and productivity:<ol><li>Mindlessness or a lack of self-awareness is always Enemy Number 1.</li><li>The mind will always resist challenging work. It doesn’t mean something’s wrong.</li><li>Procrastination provides a quick relief from the uncomfortable emotion generated by critical self-talk.</li><li>Procrastination is a form of impatience that says if you’re not succeeding right away that means it’s hopeless.</li><li>Procrastination isn't a disease or a character flaw, it is a natural answer of our mind as a result of doing challenging work.</li></ol>

How poor emotion management sabotages our productivity

<ol><li>Pay attention to your self-talk: learn to identify your self-talk and try to suppress it.</li><li>Improve your emotional vocabulary: we typically lack a vocabulary for thinking about our emotional states. By expanding it, we can become more self-aware and improve our way of managing emotions.</li><li>Practice mindfulness: train your attention in order to better navigate difficult thoughts and feelings.</li><li>Work with a therapist or coach: try to talk to a specialist in order to get support from an expert in the field.</li></ol>

How to improve your emotion management skills

The key to improving our work and productivity in the long run is to develop better emotion management skills such as realistic self-talk, improved emotional vocabulary, and attention training via mindfulness.

We all tend to think that the tools we use are the main reason why we tend to be underproductive. However, this is far from the truth and in this article a psychological explanation is given with some interesting takes on emotions.

To improve your productivity, focus on emotion management. This means cultivating emotional intelligence and psychological mastery.

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One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism.These classification parameters are useful for classifying people in most societies. The result of the classification will depend more on the person's personality rather than the beliefs prevalent in its society.

How to classify people

An intuitive representation of the degree and aggressiveness of conformism can be done by using the Cartesian coordinate system.The horizontal axis runs from conventional-minded on the left to independent-minded on the right.The vertical axis runs from passive at the bottom to aggressive at the top.The resulting four quadrants define four types of people. Starting in the upper left and going counter-clockwise: aggressively conventional-minded, passively conventional-minded, passively independent-minded, and aggressively independent-minded.

The cartesian representation of conformism

<ul><li>Aggressively conventional-minded: they believe not only that rules must be obeyed, but that those who disobey them must be punished.</li><li>Passively conventional-minded: they're careful to obey the rules, but when other kids break them, their impulse is to worry that those kids will be punished.</li><li>Passively independent-minded: they don't care much about rules and probably aren't 100% sure what the rules even are.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Aggressively independent-minded: when they see a rule, their first impulse is to question it. Merely being told what to do makes them inclined to do the opposite.</li></ul>

An analogy with kids

The four types are not equally common. There are more passive people than aggressive ones, and far more conventional-minded people than independent-minded ones. So the passively conventional-minded are the largest group, and the aggressively independent-minded the smallest.

Distribution of the four types

It seems to me that aggressively conventional-minded people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the trouble in the world.

Why do the independent-minded need to be protected, though?Because they have all the new ideas. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be right. You have to be right when everyone else is wrong. Conventional-minded people can't do that.

Protect the independent-minded

In the past, the way the independent-minded protected themselves was to congregate in a handful of places — first in courts, and later in universities — where they could to some extent make their own rules.For the last couple centuries at least, when the aggressively conventional-minded were on the rampage for whatever reason, universities were the safest places to be.

How do the independent-minded protect themselves

We have many ways of classifying people in our society. Some of them are very specific, whereas the others aim at giving a rough classification. The latter type is the classification proposed by Paul Graham in this article about conformism.

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Cognitive Restructuring is a core technique in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the most well-studied and effective approach to treating common mental health issues like anxiety and depression.

What is Cognitive Restructuring?

Cognitive Restructuring is based on the principle of cognitive mediation which says that how we feel emotionally is not the result of what happens to us, but instead, it’s the result of how we think about what happens to us.

The Principle of Cognitive Restructuring

<ul><li>It helps us get organized mentally</li><li>It forces us to slow down</li><li>It helps us be more aware</li><li>It gives us a sense of agency and control</li><li>It helps us think more clearly and rationally</li><li>It helps us reflect instead of reacting</li><li>It breaks bad mental habits</li></ul>

Why it works?

If we want to feel better on a regular basis, we need to figure out a way to change how we habitually think about and interpret what happens to us.

The benefits of Cognitive Restructuring are many and diverse:<ul><li>Manage worry and anxiety better</li><li>Break out of rumination and depression spirals</li><li>More effective stress relief</li><li>Avoid procrastination and be more productive</li><li>Improve communication and relationships</li><li>Increased optimism and outlook</li><li>Help with addiction and sobriety issues</li><li>Build assertiveness and self-confidence</li><li>Cultivate empathy and self-compassion</li><li>Gain increased self-awareness and personal insight</li></ul>

Practical Benefits of Cognitive Restructuring

A Thought Record simply a guide for walking you through the specific elements and steps of Cognitive Restructuring.This "template" is composed of 6 steps:<ol><li>Pause: What happened here?</li><li>Trigger: Who, What, When, Where, Why?</li><li>Thoughts: What thoughts were running through my mind immediately after the trigger?</li><li>Emotions: What emotions am I feeling right now? On a scale from 1 to 10, how intense are they?</li><li>Alternative thoughts: What are some alternative-ideally, mode realistic-ways of interpreting what happened?</li><li>Re-rate emotions: How intense are my emotions now?</li></ol>

Introducing the Thought Record

Cognitive Distortions are unrealistic, exaggerated, and generally inaccurate forms of self-talk.These habitual inaccuracies or distortions in the way we think tend to create distortions in how we feel.

What are Cognitive Distortions?

<ul><li>Mind reading: assuming we understand what other people are thinking without any evidence.</li><li>Overgeneralization: extending the evidence for something beyond what is appropriate.</li><li>Magnification: taking our errors and exaggerating them.</li><li>Emotional reasoning: making decisions based on our feelings.</li><li>Black & white thinking: evaluating things in terms of extreme categories.</li><li>Labeling: describing ourselves in one extreme way, usually negative.</li><li>Should statements: self-talking about what we should and should not do.</li></ul>

Examples of Cognitive Distortions

How can we deal with negative thinking? Psychology suggests that we should try to train our minds to think more positively about what happens to us.

Decrease worry, jugmentalness, and other negative thinking patterns with Cognitive Restructuring, a powerful technique from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The Complete Guide to Cognitive Restructuring

Whenever you get confused, it’s often super helpful to pause and clarify your intentions.Just declare what you actually want in a sentence or two. Express it aloud or in writing. Then let it sink in and see how your body, mind, and feelings react to it.

Clarify Your Intentions

Reality can be very accommodating when you’re clear about asking for what you want.If you don’t tell reality what you want, it has to guess. And it evaluates the accuracy of its guesses based on your responses (i.e. your actions and behaviors).

Are You Frustrating Reality?

Don’t sit down at a table in a restaurant to order if you’re not ready and hungry for your next meal.Instead of acting confused about what to do, just rest in the state of not being hungry for any fresh goals yet.Don’t chase after partial matches. Give your hunger some time to build up first.

The Restaurant Metaphor

Many people live their life in confusion which leads to many problems at any decision gate. This article contains useful insight about the importance of clarifying our intentions in order to be always mindful about our actions and decisions.

Amp It Up

How to Handle Other People’s Bad Moods Like a Pro

The power of defaults

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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