Where you end up in your field, whether it’s sports, arts, or business, is not a result of your genes and your environment.
Although talent feels and looks predestined, we have more control over what skills we develop and more potential than we might ever imagine.
Understanding more about the common barriers to active listening – and how to best overcome these – are the biggest lessons you’ll learn from this book.
There are only two communication states: actively listening, and not really listening. Active listening requires us to understand, interpret, and evaluate what we’re being told.
The top priority of a manager is the performance of her people. A good manager is also a good coach: he creates an environment of support, respect and trust. Bill Campbell didn’t separate the working self from personal self. He worked with persons and acknowledged their emotions, struggles and professional achievements.
The 12 Rules of Life is a guide for anyone who craves for order, stability and a higher sense of purpose in life.
Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to “make the world a better place” before they’ve taken care of their own chaos within. Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer. Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage. –Jordan B. Peterson