Anything you hate to do, someone else loves it. Find that person and let them do it.
- Derek Sivers
2 Jul
2011
2 Jul
2011
When you're on to something great, it won't feel like revolution. It'll feel like uncommon sense.
- Derek Sivers
2 Jul
2011
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
- Derek Sivers
20 Nov
2010
Are you leading or following?
Are you chasing or being chased?
Are you fleeing or climbing?
- Seth Godin
20 Nov
2010
When it comes to goals pursuit, it really is the journey that counts, not the destination. Set for yourself any goal you want.
- Jonathan Haidt
20 Nov
2010
Plan your day the night before. Begin at the end...
You feel fantastic for a day well spent. Now which items did you check off your task list? (max 3-7)
20 Nov
2010
Bad is stronger than good.
Bad is more attention-getting than good. Humans pay more attention to and give more weight to negative rather than positive experiences or other kinds of information.
Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is more motivated to avoid bad self-definitions than to pursue good ones. Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones.
20 Nov
2010
Arrange your day and your environment to increase both pleasures and gratifications.
- Pleasures - senses, emotions
- Gratifications - flow, strenths, lose self-consciousness
- Jonathan Haidt, The happiness hypothesis
20 Nov
2010
Balance three responses: adaptation, shaping, selection.
- adaptation - changing the self to fit the environment
- shaping - changing the environment
- selection - choosing to move to a new environment
- Jonathan Haidt, The happiness hypothesis
20 Nov
2010
Focus on opportunities, strengths, what can be done.
Asset-based thinking (vs deficit-based thinking):
Focus on
- opportunities (vs problems)
- strengths (vs weaknesses)
- what can be done (vs what can't)
Personal, interpersonal, situational assets.
20 Nov
2010
Write down your thoughts - recognize the distortions - think of a more appropriate thought
- Jonathan Haidt
20 Nov
2010
Ideas that stick: SUCCESs
Six principles of sticky ideas:
- Simple - core, compact, profound, proverb
- Unexpected - surprise, mystery; long term: systematiccally opening gaps of knowledge (curiosity) - and then filling the gaps
- Concrete - not abstract, sensory information; human action
- Credible - authority; help people test the idea; testimonies; examples
- Emotional - specific examples of people; audience's self-interest or sense of identity; choosing the right emotion
- Stories - they embody most of the above principles; mental rehearsals (stories to ourselves);
Book Made to stick
20 Nov
2010
Comparing yourself to others is a waste of time.
When you see someone else, you only see the part of the iceberg above the water.
20 Nov
2010
The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way is arduous and long...
But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier.
- Colonel Harland Sanders
20 Nov
2010
Who needs or wants what I love to do and do well?
- Who needs or want what I love to do and do well?
- Why do they need it?
- What's a low-cost way I could start offering it to them and get paid quickly?
- Laura Vanderkam, in the book Grindhopping
20 Nov
2010
Don't be the best in the world at what you do; be the only one in the world who does what you do.
- Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead
Personal development quotes. Illustrated quotes are moved to The Mind's Eye
Sammy Dellicour
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