1: Gay Hendricks had just delivered his first speech to a professional audience.
A man approached the podium and said, “I really enjoyed your talk. It wasn’t so much what you said but the way you said it,” Gay writes in his book The Genius Zone.
Gay had always been nervous about public speaking, so the compliment lit him up. “What did you like about the way I spoke?” … continue reading
1: Author Gay Hendricks received a text from a member of his extended family.
A family member was asking “for a loan of several thousand dollars for extra holiday expenses and to pay a tax lien,” Gay writes in his book The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity.
“Based on her dismal record of repaying past loans (zero for five over … continue reading
1: It feels like we are swimming in a sea of information.
“It’s become a ubiquitous modern problem to have not only a teetering pile of books we’ve been meaning to read, but a digital stack of articles we’d like to digest, plus a long queue of podcast episodes to listen to, videos or TV shows to watch, or videogames we’ve purchased and would love to play, if only we … continue reading
1: “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience,” said the educational reformer John Dewey.
Our ability to think, to reflect, to “think about our thinking” is integral to our ability to learn.
The term used to describe our ability to be aware of our thinking is called metacognition.
Which author Anne-Laure Le Cunff calls “the forgotten secret to success” in her book Tiny Experiments… continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations.
At the end of the weeks to follow, we will begin an exploration of author Oliver Burkeman‘s Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.
Perfectionism is something we all know something about.
Perhaps we are … continue reading
1: Growing up, billionaire Charlie Munger learned an important lesson from his father.
His dad was a lawyer. “One of his best friends, Grant McFayden, Omaha’s Pioneer Ford dealer, was a client,” Charlie writes in Poor Charlie’s Almanack.
“He was a perfectly marvelous man, a self-made Irishman who’d run away uneducated from a farm as a youth because his father beat him,” he notes. “So he made his own … continue reading
1: Sometimes life is going to be hard, Charlie Munger tells us.
“Another thing to cope with is that life is very likely to provide terrible blows, unfair blows,” he writes in Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger.
“Some people recover and others don’t,” he observes.
So how should we deal with “life and its various passages [which] can be hard, brutally hard”?
Charlie … continue reading
1: Let’s say our goal is to help India.
“The question we should consider asking is not ‘How can I help India?’ billionaire Charlie Munger writes in Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger.
“Instead, we should ask, ‘How can I hurt India?’ We find what will do the worst damage and then try to avoid it.”
This is the power of thinking backward and … continue reading
1: Billionaire Charlie Munger, the longtime vice chairman and “right-hand man” to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, was well known for his fiercely independent thinking.
He took pleasure in rejecting the “wisdom of the herd” and going his own way. Regardless of what others thought or what they might be doing.
Yet, equally important, although perhaps not as well known, was Charlie’s willingness to change his mind when … continue reading
1: Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, is valued at more than $1 trillion.
His business partner and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger describes what Warren tells business school students about his approach to investing: “I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches, representing all … continue reading
