Mark Twain on the shorter letter alearningaday.blog/2019/05/09/mar… via Rohan Rajiv

What if we treated every person we meet as a messenger from life to help us become the person we want to be? ⁦Rohan Rajiv⁩ ⁦Dr. Shefali⁩ alearningaday.blog/2019/05/11/gro…

Thinking: Much of our day-to-day joy hinges on our ability to accept ourselves as we are - flawed, edgy, and a continuous source of errors of judgment/learning opportunities (depending on how we view it) - versus that fictional perfect self we get drawn to imagining.

Periodic reminder to self: Do not fear mistakes. Instead, if we must go down the path of fear, fear only – i) the repetition of the same mistake because we didn’t learn from it and ii) the absence of a creative, constructive, and corrective response to the mistake.

Controlling for level of skill/capability, the strength of a team is proportional to the percentage of folks within the team who'd put the team's interest ahead of their own. When it is <50% => disaster. Conversely, when it exceeds 80%, you're generally looking at greatness.

Spotted today. Great move to call out the explicit cost of bad behavior and shape store atmosphere.

Excellent blog by Rohan Rajiv! Highly recommend you take 2 min to read it. The power of the stories we tell ourselves. Very, very important. alearningaday.blog/2019/07/10/a-t…

Why over-communication matters in a period of change - "It is difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it."

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This is so inspiring. Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ - just in case you missed this..

Thinking: We move conversations from conflict to communication when we stop worrying about articulating the logic behind our point-of-view and, instead, focus on demonstrating that we deeply understand the point-of-view of the person we’re attempting to communicate with.

Made us stop what we were doing, play it on repeat for an hour, and savor memories from the past as well as the memories we were making as we did so. Very special. Thank you. :)

Happiness explained, in 37 words. “Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.”

Learning: When doing the work, focus on the process. When presenting the work, focus on outcomes and lessons learnt. The former ensures we emerge from the experience with learning and peace of mind. And, the latter does the same for those being presented to.

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Fascinating chart Our World in Data team! The single best argument made for the importance of self-compassion. Be kind to yourself or the many hours you're going to spend with yourself as you grow older are going to be * awkward *. :-)

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One of the things you learn as a scientist is the ability to look at a plot and think, "that just doesn't look right." That's the feeling I got when I saw this plot that Lomborg is currently pushing.

Rohan Rajiv My father, a doctor, has successfully cured many patients in his dedicated practice of 37 years. Now he needs your help for his own surgeries. Kindly retweet & support us financially. Fundraiser and details below milaap.org/fundraisers/su…