It’s a truism – if you’re a successful person, you make decisions fast and change them seldom, while the less successful people agonize over every decision, then change their minds frequently. If you’re one of the indecisive crowd, researchers are now much closer to an understanding of why you’re that way. The Wall Street Journal‘s [...]
About five years ago I was interviewing Paul Hartunian, and during our talk, he referred again and again to the “secret ingredient” that made some people successful, while others just never quite got their stuff together. His secret ingredient? Focus. The ability to tune out everything that doesn’t need your attention right now so you [...]
As you’ve suspected for a long time, success in anything – consistent success, at least – requires a certain few skills. Fortunately, they’re not all that hard to learn. What is hard – what gets in the way for most people – is a reluctance to see oneself having those skills (sounds quirky, I know, [...]
