Being there–in the arena–gives you the clarity of experience; it’s a sixth sense that is the ability to know which pieces of advice are important. Unfortunately, the most important lessons you can learn from people with experience tend to be things you don’t think are important until you have experience.
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We get what we click on. Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark Twain via Wikiquote
What are questions?
Clayton Christensen:
Questions are places where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
via Jason Freedman.
What are questions?
Clayton Christensen:
Questions are places where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
via Jason Freedman.
We get what we click on. Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself.
We get what we click on. Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself.
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News October 23, 1929 (via gkchestertonquote)
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
Now that just about everyone is in the business of selling their time in some form, it’s important to be aware that even if something doesn’t cost you cash out of your wallet, the opportunity cost is not only real, it’s just as valuable. Not only does it cost money to say ‘no’, it costs money to say ‘yes’.
Seth Godin, Opportunity cost