How To Be Successful
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success.
^ADJ: Love tip number 11: Build a network - so true!
How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits
We often blame tech for our worst habits, like distraction or bad spelling. But our phones, computers and gadgets can just as easily help us build good habits — if we understand how habits work and the right technology to use. It can even help us break bad habits if we use our devices to create new ones to replace those we want to eliminate. As Charles Duhigg points out in The Power of Habit, a habit “loop” is made up of three pieces: the cue or trigger (whatever prompts you to engage in your habit), the routine (the habit itself), and the reward (the payoff that rewards and reinforces your habit.) You can use your devices — along with the apps they offer — to help you with each of these components.
^ADJ: Great habits = easy life, but building habits is not always the easiest, highly recommend James Clear - Atomic Habits for a good read on this topic.
The Pygmalion Effect (Rosenthal Effect) I Definition, Example & Summary
The Pygmalion Effect (Rosenthal Effect) - When we believe a team member has the ability to be a great performer, our belief becomes reality. The performance expectation we have for our team members is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
^ADJ: A great reminder, and a useful strategy resource
The Pygmalion Effect (Rosenthal effect) is a self fulfilling prophecy! Discover the Pygmalion Effect (& Golem): a definition, summary & Pygmalion example!
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Impact of modifiable healthy lifestyle adoption on lifetime gain from middle to older age
This study explored whether the modification of selected lifestyles is likely to increase life expectancy from middle age onwards, regardless of the presence of major comorbidities.
^ADJ: key takeouts: Eat well, manage your BMI, moderation in everything (especially alcohol) and get good sleep.
Adapting to Endure
^ADJ: Some great slides from Sequoia on adapting and preparing for the new "more realistic" economic environment.
Regards,
Andrew
Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers | University of Cambridge
Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University.
^ADJ: Such an important but overlooked part of good health - getting into some good routines is so important, and looking at the triggers of a not-so-good night sleep, such as alcohol, not enough downtime before sleep, eating late, and not enough exercise.
The Return of Industrial Warfare | Royal United Services Institutemenuplussearchuseruserquoteprintfacebooktwitterlinkedinemailprintfacebooktwitteryoutubelinkedinrss
The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here. The massive consumption of equipment, vehicles and ammunition requires a large-scale industrial base for resupply – quantity still has a quality of its own.
^ADJ: Interesting article that made me think about the leads time on the manufacture of arms, the effect on stockpiles (and the associated cost of holding too much) and how the war in Ukraine is going to change the supply chain.