Everybody keeps telling us that what we believe is what we get. But maybe you don’t believe it. And if you don’t, then aren’t you getting what you DON’T believe? Oh it’s all so confusing. Any complex system is going to have a LOT of variables. Some of those variables will be dependent on other [...]
When we’re trying to build our motivation and strengthen our persistence, there’s one easy, dead-simple test that’ll always tell us how we’re doing. It’s the gaps… And yet, even though this is a crystal clear indicator of our current effectiveness, we often avoid looking at it, and even go to great lengths to avoid seeing [...]
I recently read in the Amazon.com review of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers,”: “Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, [Gladwell] builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, “some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky.” Another recent writer (wish I could remember who so [...]
