Being right keeps you in place Being…

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“Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore”


“Taking tests increases performance – even when you fail the tests. Deliberately making mistakes during training led to better learning than being taught to prevent errors.”


“The most effective way to change your behavior over the long term is to manipulate your environment. Change your surroundings to make what you should do easy and what you shouldn’t do hard.”


“Merely deciding you’re committed for the long-term vs the short-term dramatically increases progress and improvement.”


“Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How:”


“The differences were staggering. With the same amount of practice, the long-term-commitment group outperformed the short-term-commitment group by 400 percent.”

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/11/never-stop-growing-learning/

Learning from history is cheap And worth…

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“Learning from history is cheap. And worth it.


“What are the five best decisions your competitor or your predecessor made last year?


“Not only because they worked, but because they showed you a new way of thinking, something that went against your instincts or biases…


“Every political candidate ought to be able to outline the five lessons learned from the men and women who came before–especially the positive things they’ve learned from those in other parties. Those unwilling or unable to do so are either demagogues or ignorant.


“…The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.”

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/the-five-top-things.html

Systems are nothing more or less than…

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“Systems are nothing more or less than a cohesive set of patterns. Large patterns. Unfortunately, while the brain is excellent at detecting small patterns, large patterns are almost completely invisible to us. And nowhere is this more true than with learning.”


“if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves.’

“…if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves….”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/05/04/tim-ferriss-and-the-secrets-of-accelerated-learning/