Twelve and a Half
Gary Vaynerchuk
Summary
Decent advice from Gary Vee on being a good leader
Rating: 3/5
Notes
Patience is a practical way to get to your ambition
The growth potential of most businesses, teams and countries is limited by the emotional intelligence of their leaders
Gratitude, being thankful, showing appreciate for and to return to kindness
Bring value to every person you interact with
Triple down on your strengths
Don’t overvalue your own opinion. It makes it easier to not overvalue the opinion of others
Surround yourself with optimistic people and limit your interactions with negative people
When you can feel what others are feeling (empathy) you develop a great ability to manipulate human beings
Being kind when you’re under pressure is tough but necessary
Tenacity should never equal burnout
To maximize curiosity, you need a strong work ethic and strong dose for endless learning
Patience: the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting angry or upset
Insecurity festers without the fertilization of patience
Hold onto your convictions until the market tells you you’re wrong
Humility a comfort in one’s own understanding of one’s position in the world
People think fast money is the answer but it is the greatest trick of life
Innovation is based on curiosity
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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