“Self-judgments, like all judgments, are tragic expressions of unmet needs”
– – Marshall Rosenberg
J Krishnamurti on Thought and time as the roots of fear
All the notes were taken directly from J. Krishnamurti - Amsterdam 1981 - Public Talk 1 - - - Our consciousness is the common ground for all humans (also known in eastern spiritual traditions as the spectrum of awareness). We all have the same...
Oliver Burkeman on Cosmic Insignificance Therapy
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Cosmic Insignificance Therapy The hazard in any such discussion of “what matters most” in life, though, is that it tends to give rise to a kind of paralyzing grandiosity. It starts...
Chris Bailey on Beating Procrastination
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned - - - Procrastination the more aversive (unattractive) a task or project is to you, the more likely you are to put it off. And there are six main task attributes that make procrastination...
Stephen R. Covey on Being Proactive
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Habit 1: Be Proactive Be a light, not a judge, Be a model not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he...
Pema Chodron on Compassion
All the notes were taken directly from When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron - - - Compassion Honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean. Develop both clear seen with compassion. Compassionate actions involves working with ourselves as...
Anne Lamott on Why Writing is Important
All the notes were taken directly from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - - - Why Writing Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention and to communicate what is going on. It can help you soften, can...
Dale Carnegie on Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Fundamental Techniques in Handling People: 3 Principles P1 “Don’t criticize” Humans are emotional beings, full of prejudice and motivated by pride vanity Don’t condemn Speak no...
Marshall Goldsmith on Asking for Feedforward, not Feedback
All the notes were taken directly from "What Got You Here Won’t Get You There" by Marshall Goldsmith. - - - Feedforward Ask for two ideas; listen; say thank you. Until you get everyone who is affected by your behavior on your side and working to...
Brendon Burchard on Pitfalls of High Performance
All the notes were taken directly from "High Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard! - - - 1: Beware SuperiorityHigh performers face a unique set of character traps because they are, by definition,outperforming so many around them. When you are...
Hermann Hesse on how moderate enjoyment is double enjoyment
All the notes were taken from "My Belief: Essays on Life and Art" by Hermann Hesse - - - “But the high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous...
Annie Duke on Recruiting past-us and future-us
All the notes were taken directly from "Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke. - - - Recruiting past-us and future-us Temporal discounting: We are willing to take an irrationally large discount to get a reward now instead of waiting for a bigger reward...
Seth Godin on What People are Really After
All the notes were taken directly from "This is Marketing" by Seth Godin - - - Quarter-inch drill bit Analogy "Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch...
Tony Robbins on 4 Core Principles for Investing
All the notes were taken directly from "Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Peter Mallouk and Tony Robbins" - - - Core 4 Principles Long Term Investor without fearing bear trends. Active Managed account overcharge for under performance...
Yuval Noah Harari on how the concept of work will evolve throughout the 21st century
All notes were taken directly from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari - - - WORK Humans have two types of abilities – physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while...
Esther Perel on Truth Telling
All notes were taken directly from “The State of Affairs” by Esther Perel – – – Ask yourself, is it honest, is it helpful, and is it kind? Sometimes silence is caring. Before you unload your guilt onto an unsuspecting partner, consider, whose...