- The more universal truths you uncover about the world, the less the number of moral opinions you will need
- In life, you will eventually be forced to decide between being somebody or doing something
- The unreasonable person adapts surrounding conditions to himself
- The straight path in your head turns to spaghetti in the real world vice versa
- The straight and narrow path grounded in truth seeking is the faster road to meaningful destinations
- Power handed to the untrained mind leads inevitably to mental damage
- The ability to see reality as it really is, in minimally deluded ways, leads inevitably to the earning of authority
- A CEO's job is to interpret external realities for a company, A.G. Lafley
survive a lack of incoming empathy
- generate a positive atmosphere and empathy for others under your "information protection" umbrella
- A startup team of two is better than solo entrepreneurs due to the sharing of "information parenthood"
- Idealism believes in change and creates believers who don't change whereas the opposite is true
The idealist goes into Zen Retreat and remains unchanged after he is done
- The realist starts a business and is forced to change
- Path to freedom
Integrating the self (addiction) and the shadow (aversions) to cover your whole personality
- Myer Briggs cognitive function
first four functions represent your self
- last four functions represent your shadow - usually triggered by stress
- Status
If status doesn't matter to you, it becomes available to you as a tool to control those whom status does matter
- consciously cultivate away this felt need
- The easiest way to figure out someone is to look at the information they choose to consume
- Handling information
Truth telling
requires you to calmly separate your feelings from facts and tell yourself the truth before you tell others
- cursing and candor both reflect an inability to bear the stress of being otherwise
- Cold blooded listening
listen for the data behind heated words
- don't take what you hear about your personality as worth responding to
- freely draw your own conclusion about the data received
- Dissemination
the larger the group the fewer the key beliefs allowed to be conveyed
- at the level of human civilization use extremely simple but very fertile fill-in-the-blanks messaging
- Handling negotiation
most work is done away from the actual negotiating table
- Discovery pre-work conversation to tease out what people know and the trust relationship
- the more there is that mutually greed upon, the less there is to negotiate
- ignore sunk cost
- Choose to be effective instead of being liked
- On money
aim to be anti-fragile
- even millionaires are stuck in the psychology that the money is transient
- salary men are stuck in the illusion that the pay check will extend indefinitely into the future
References
- *The fighter who changed the art of war*, Boyd
- *48 Laws of Power*
- *The Alchemist*, Paul Coelho
- *The Redemptive Self*, McAdam
- *The origins of political order*, Francis Fukuyama
- *Yes, Minister*
- *Glengarry Glen Ross*