I’ve learned by doing.
Don’t get frustrated. If nothing bad is happening to you now, wait a bit and it will. That is just reality.
Most people have a tough time reflecting when they are in pain and they pay attention to other things when the pain passes, so they miss out on the reflections that provide the lessons.
Use evidence-based decision-making tools.
Working through disagreements does take time but it’s just about the best way you can spend it. What’s important is that you prioritize what you spend time on and who you spend it with. There are lots of people who will disagree with you, and it would be unproductive to consider all their views. It doesn’t pay to be open-minded with everyone. Instead, spend your time exploring ideas with the most believable people you have access to.
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Regularly use pain as your guide toward quality reflection.
If you continue doing what you think is best when all the evidence and believable people are against you, you’re being dangerously arrogant.
The Spiritual Brain.
Beyond Religion.
If you limit your goals to what you know you can achieve, you are setting the bar way too low.
Governance is the oversight system that removes the people and the processes if they aren’t working well. It is the process that checks and balances power to assure that the principles and interests of the community as a whole are always placed above the interests and power of any individual or faction. Because power will rule, power must be put in the hands of capable people in key roles who have the right values, do their jobs well, and will check and balance the power of others.
I believe that great cultures, like great people, recognize that making mistakes is part of the process of learning, and that continuous learning is what allows an organization to evolve successfully over time.
It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one’s limits, which is painful.
In thinking about the relative importance of great relationships and money, it was clear that relationships were more important because there is no amount of money I would take in exchange for a meaningful relationship, because there is nothing I could buy with that money that would be more valuable.
The unwise are those who worry about nothing.
If people don’t follow the agreed-upon paths, they don’t have the right to complain about either the people they disagree with or the idea-meritocratic system itself.
Principles are like laws – you can’t break one simply because you and someone else agree to break it.
You shouldn’t be upset if you find out that you’re bad at something – you should be happy that you found out, because knowing that and dealing with it will improve your chances of getting what you want.
Open-minded people genuinely believe they could be wrong; the questions that they ask are genuine. They also assess their relative believability to determine whether their primary role should be as a student, a teacher, or a peer.