Your heroes can kill you. 💡Having an internal locus of control and identity is extremely important. It’s important not to tie your identity to how you’re seen in the eyes of others. Living based on how you’re perceived can lead to suboptimal decisions if you’re doing...
Not all advice is good advice. Daphne E. Jones, the ex-SVP and Chief Information Officer of GE Healthcare, once framed this perfectly: “When you’re offered advice, take the meat but not the bones.” - Daphne E. Jones 💡 Advice is incredibly useful - but it’s a mistake to think...
We all have goals that require some discipline, but once one thing goes wrong it can be easy to let everything else fall apart. You're on a diet and you have a bad day. You miss a gym session and break a solid streak. You have a lapse...
At the end of the game show Golden Ball, the two final contestants have to decide whether to steal or split the winnings. The problem is, they have no idea what the other person will pick. It’s the classic prisoners dilemma. 💡If you pick split and the other person...
I had a friend who loved to say “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” The problem is, it’s often the small stuff that makes you sweat. 💡It's the tiny details you overlook that lead to the biggest catastrophes. Boeing spent $4 billion on a machine they thought...
People like to say, “It’s not a sprint; it’s a marathon.” The problem is that some people take six hours to run a marathon, while the best do it in two. If you can’t finish the marathon in under three hours they won’t even let you...
