- *Success* is what you personally need to be happy at work and at home
- Strategy that gets you there is obvious
consistency
- knowing what you are best at and being perfectly aligned with your context
Intensifiers - character traits on the average that are negative but in proper context brings sweeping benefits
- resilience and optimism - fixing your narrative of self
- small wins
- adjusting based on feedback
- quit unproductive things to free up more time
- maximize opportunities to be lucky - continuous small scale experiments
- increase likelihood of follow through by listing out if-then statements
- follow up
- active listening
- count your blessings
- learn to have fun
- knowing what enough is enough - satisficing versus maximizing
- Students successful in class least likely to become outliers
encouraged to be generalist versus being hyper specialized on your strengths
- Two kinds of leaders
rose through the ranks - filtered
- came through the top window -
outliers
- eccentrics due to genetic mutation
- black sheep - a pain to deal with / psychopathic tendencies
- Givers eventually win out takers
takers will deplete the environment of good faith reducing overall levels of collaboration
- make sure not to give overboard by setting clear limits
- Introverts get more time to nurse an idea and bring it to fruition than extroverts
- Building friendship through likes/similarities
- Self compassion/humility versus over-confidence
- The big four
happiness = Enyoing
- achievement = winning
- significance = counting to others
- legacy = extending
Further references
- *The invisible hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates*, Peter Leeson
- *Creating Minds*, Howard Gardner
- *The Progress Principle*, Teresa Amabile
- *Good to Great*, Jim Collins
- *The Effective Executive*, Peter Drucker
- *Little Bets*, Peter Sims
- *The Talent Code*, Dan Coyle
- *The As If Principle*, Richard Wiseman