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The Price of Success

YouTopian Journey • 87 implied HN points • 23 Jul 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Success Self-Improvement Mindset Motivation Personal Growth
  1. Success comes with a price that must be paid: time, commitment, sacrifice, setbacks, and isolation.
  2. To achieve success, one must be willing to go all the way, facing challenges, failures, and isolation with determination.
  3. The path to success involves pushing past doubts, prioritizing goals, embracing failures, and persevering through obstacles.
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Want to achieve your goals with me? | #39

The Pole • 19 implied HN points • 21 Dec 23
🚌 Education Accountability Community Success Mentoring
  1. Creating a successful mastermind or accountability group involves creating the right container and taking a step back.
  2. Benefits from group accountability include gaining aha moments, conviction, focus, and camaraderie with minimal effort.
  3. Building successful masterminds is based on principles like consistency, intent, and community, which can be simplified into key equations for success.

Desire isn't a strategy

Sunday Letters • 139 implied HN points • 13 Mar 22
💼 Business Strategy Organization Success Goals Technology
  1. Desire alone is not a strategy; it lacks specific actions and directions. A clear strategy needs to tell you what steps to take and what to avoid.
  2. Many people confuse goals with strategies. Goals like 'getting rich' are vague, while a strategy like 'specializing in field X' is more actionable.
  3. Successful companies have clear strategies that guide their actions and decisions. If a plan doesn’t outline specific tactics, it’s probably just a wish rather than a real strategy.

Work isn't what you think it is

Sunday Letters • 159 implied HN points • 17 Oct 21
💼 Business Career Advice Work Culture Impact Passion Success
  1. Your career path is unique, and it’s shaped by random events and choices, not just a clear plan. Don’t try to follow someone else’s journey; create your own.
  2. Having a lot of impact in what you do is key to long-term success. Focus on what matters to you and makes a difference.
  3. Passion for your work can lead to success and satisfaction. Enjoying what you do doesn’t mean it’s not valuable, so embrace what you love.

How Phil Jackson Was Great While Being "Bad"

House of Strauss • 64 implied HN points • 27 Apr 23
🎾 Sports Coaching Media Success Culture Analysis
  1. The media can sensationalize and distort complex stories into soundbites for quick, angry reactions.
  2. Successful coaching often involves individualized management strategies and balancing structure with freedom.
  3. Phil Jackson's coaching success was rooted in understanding and connecting with players as individuals, even amidst societal and personal contradictions.

5/19/2023: The Wonder Boy Tragedy

The Great Reset Diary 2022- • 19 implied HN points • 19 May 23
💼 Business Leadership Success Psychology
  1. Success can be detrimental, especially for extremely successful people who may struggle to cope with their situation.
  2. Extremely successful individuals are often treated as symbols and icons, leading to a disconnect in human interactions and judgment.
  3. Having honest friends who can provide accountability and keep individuals grounded may help prevent self-destructive behavior in the face of extreme success.

3 Pillars of Career Success | LSW#42

The Leading Sapiens Weekly • 20 implied HN points • 09 Feb 24
💼 Business Career Leadership Success Coaching Skills
  1. Confident ignorance often wins out over conscientious intelligence in workplaces, limiting career growth and impact.
  2. Beyond self and technical competence, organizational competence is a critical pillar for long-term career success.
  3. Successful careers involve understanding the art of organizational savvy and navigating workplace dynamics effectively.

Luck and Leadership

Fish Food for Thought • 15 implied HN points • 06 Mar 24
💼 Business Leadership Product Development Innovation Success Opportunities
  1. Successful leaders have a complex relationship with luck, involving factors like preparation, control, confidence, and opportunity.
  2. An excess of any element in the luck equation can lead to diminishing returns or negative outcomes.
  3. Effective leadership requires a delicate balance in managing preparation, control, confidence, seizing opportunities, and knowing when to say 'no.'

From Procrastination to Productivity: The Pre-Coding Checklist

Weekend Developer • 19 implied HN points • 12 May 23
🚌 Education Productivity Routine Preparation Success Habit formation
  1. Having a pre-coding routine can help you focus and get started on your tasks more effectively.
  2. Visualizing and planning your tasks the evening before can help your subconscious start working on solutions.
  3. Creating cues, like setting reminders and writing down intentions, can help you establish productive habits and reduce the need for constant motivation.

What businesses, governments, and leaders should learn from Bell Labs [Storytime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 19 implied HN points • 30 Oct 22
💼 Business Innovation Leadership Success
  1. Bell Labs was responsible for inventing remarkable technological advancements like the C programming language, Solar Cells, the Laser, and the UNIX operating system in just 10 years.
  2. Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work done at Bell Labs, indicating the exceptional level of innovation and achievement within the organization.
  3. The special environment at Bell Labs fostered innovation and collaboration, setting a prime example for businesses, governments, and leaders looking to create successful and groundbreaking ideas.

MOSIS

FreakTakes • 13 implied HN points • 05 Nov 23
🕹 Technology Innovation Research Infrastructure Success Lessons Learned
  1. MOSIS project facilitated cheaper and faster access to computer chips for researchers in the 1980s.
  2. The program encouraged modularity, open interfaces, and coordination to enhance research feedback cycles.
  3. MOSIS played a key role in advancing semiconductor design by enabling unbundling of design and production tasks.

The Diversity Paradox.

Trying to Understand the World • 8 implied HN points • 21 Feb 24
📖 Philosophy Ethics Purpose Power Success
  1. The Diversity Paradox signifies a situation where despite increased diversity in organizations, systems at all levels are failing to function effectively. More than just numerical diversity, organizations need to focus on excellence and purpose to thrive.
  2. In today's society, success is often measured by power, money, and formal status, but this focus on external markers can attract the wrong individuals and prioritize image over actual capabilities.
  3. To operate successfully, organizations and individuals should strive to fulfill their true purpose, ensure excellence, and avoid succumbing to a culture of ego-gratification and narcissism that can lead to dysfunction.

The Nature of Evil

We're Gonna Get Those Bastards • 9 implied HN points • 08 Jan 24
📖 Philosophy Evil Human nature Virtues Success
  1. Evil is not just about extreme actions like murder or destruction, but can also be seen in subtle forms like character assassination.
  2. Hatred of the good for being good is a key aspect of evil - being envious or resentful of someone's success or virtues is a manifestation of this.
  3. Being able to genuinely celebrate and feel happy for someone else's achievements is a mark of goodness, while harboring resentment towards others for their success is a sign of evil.

Keys to Success: The 3 Dualities.

The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past • 3 HN points • 17 Mar 24
🚌 Education Success Data Creativity Innovation Leadership
  1. Successful leaders balance opposing dualities into a harmonious approach, like Roots and Wings, to adapt to changing times while maintaining tradition.
  2. Combining Story and Spreadsheet is crucial for creating true wealth and differentiation in a data-driven world, emphasizing the importance of creativity and storytelling alongside data.
  3. Companies should blend Centralized Control and Edge Power, finding the balance between a coordinated approach for efficiency and tailoring services to the unique needs of diverse markets for innovation.

Wartime and Peacetime TPM

Building Rome(s) • 9 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
💼 Business Management Programs Decisions Leadership Success
  1. There are two types of Technical Program Manager personalities: Wartime and Peacetime.
  2. Different environments require different approaches: Wartime programs demand focus and urgency, while Peacetime programs allow for more experimentation.
  3. Wartime and Peacetime TPMs have distinct qualities: Wartime TPMs are decisive and action-oriented, while Peacetime TPMs focus on process and consensus-building.