self-discipline How to read a lot: Building focus and endurance It wasn't always this way. I started small and built up to this level of focus and endurance over many years of practice.
self-discipline Featured Setting strategic New Year resolutions Is that a strategic goal that leads you closer to your values, or just a reaction to things you wish you had more time for?
self-discipline Antifragility: Turning stress into strength Avoiding stress will prevent the adaptation required for growth. Not growing will, ironically, make us more easily stressed.
leadership The third pillar of leadership: Motivation Autonomy and Responsibility must be aligned so the team has enough autonomy over what they're responsible for
leadership The second pillar of management: Competence You can't empower a team to make decisions without an extremely high competence team
leadership The first pillar of management: Priority Without consistency, there are no commitments. Without commitments, there's no work on priorities.
leadership How to transition to the work you need It's crucial to know your skills and competencies and how they can help you find a role that better matches your needs.
leadership "How sure are you?" – Calibrating our confidence levels While explaining is useful in justifying our confidence when we're sure, it's most useful for decreasing our confidence when we're NOT sure.
leadership Focus on fewer goals by asking "What's going on?" Most of the time, when we have too many things to focus on, we lack a correct diagnosis.
self-discipline Rest: sustaining high performance Top performance is characterized by the recovery necessary for the next peak, followed by the subsequent recovery.
leadership Why, What, and How: Creating effective goals "Why, What, and How" come in order of importance and difficulty.
leadership You can build an excellent team The data shows that teams, not companies, make or break an employee's experience at work.
leadership "You must not fool yourself" – How to pursue self-awareness When unsure about how we are doing, we predictably choose the most flattering alternative.
leadership Avoid compromise and clarify goals In order to agree on how to achieve the goals, the team must first agree on the goals.
self-discipline Are you optimizing for feelings or outcomes? Nobody takes creatine because they like drinking wet baby powder.
self-discipline Competition as a path to self-awareness There's no false humility in competition – only real humility.
self-discipline Featured What if you only had 2 years to live? "If I knew I only had 2 years to live, would I make the same decisions about life I'm making now?"
self-discipline Have an activity to do right after work Suddenly, I started leaving work on time, but only on those 3 days a week when I needed to be at the gym by 6pm.
self-discipline Manufacturing needs for motivation and focus Because we often haven't clarified or understood the needs for the activities we perform, these needs don't help us focus on outcomes and don't create motivation.
self-discipline How to balance constraints No magic allows us to sleep all day and spend our free time on our phones but also to be incredibly healthy, energetic, and productive. We must choose what we really value.
self-discipline Going fast is different from rushing While rushing is about what you're doing now, being fast is about what you've done over the past several years.
self-discipline Featured Hold on to constraints In which I hold on to constraints by using only consonants, "a," "i," "o," and "u"
self-discipline Make important things automatic By automating operations and decisions through choice architecture, we leverage our status quo bias and ensure important tasks get consistently done.
self-discipline Drive: The desire to strive Drive is when desire and striving align. The actions we take from our desires and those necessary for our striving are so aligned that achieving the future we want feels good.
