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Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.
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Always demand a deadline.
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Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
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Don’t be the smartest person in the room.
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Don’t be the best. Be the only.
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Separate the processes of creation from improving.
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When someone is nasty, rude, hateful, or mean with you, pretend they have a disease.
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21 May 20
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A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.
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Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
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Never use a credit card for credit. The only kind of credit, or debt, that is acceptable is debt to acquire something whose exchange value is extremely likely to increase, like in a home. The exchange value of most things diminishes or vanishes the moment you purchase them. Don’t be in debt to losers.
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Don’t be the best. Be the only.
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Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
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Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works.
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Trust me: There is no “them”.
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To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
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If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you’re done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.
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Saving money and investing money are both good habits. Small amounts of money invested regularly for many decades without deliberation is one path to wealth.
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To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
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Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up.
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If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.
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Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
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You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.
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Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.
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How to apologize: Quickly, specifically, sincerely.
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When someone is nasty, rude, hateful, or mean with you, pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
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You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.
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Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
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Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.
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Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.
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Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.
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Promptness is a sign of respect.
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Trust me: There is no “them”
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Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
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To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
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Perhaps the most counter-intuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with
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For every dollar you spend purchasing something substantial, expect to pay a dollar in repairs, maintenance, or disposal by the end of its life.
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Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.
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Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
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Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.
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I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong, and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.
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Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.
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07 May 20karllhughes
"Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works."
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06 May 20romain trillard
ICYMI: Yesterday, Long Now's @kevin2kelly turned 68. To celebrate, he gave us the gift of 68 bits of unsolicited advice. https://t.co/n83YAyy0g1 (photo by @chrismichel) https://t.co/bfS5bjgrRJ
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03 May 20
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Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.
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01 May 20Antonio Ortiz
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. https://t.co/ylgC9i1wfp
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30 Apr 20Peter Carpenter
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) is turning 68. And he's giving *us* a present -- 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice.
Among the gems:
- Don’t be the best. Be the only.
- Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.
- Trust me: There is no “them.”
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Alexander Vieß
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. https://t.co/ylgC9i1wfp
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia." Die anderen 67 Tipps sind auch ganz nützlich: https://t.co/4yAkmRBhS6 -
29 Apr 20Buster Benson
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. https://t.co/ylgC9i1wfp
What is that you say? You don’t like unsolicited advice?
I suggest you reconsider, and contemplate these 68 snippets from @kevin2kelly (on the occasion of his 68th birthday—nice custom, giving others gifts on your birthday): https://t.co/DfOkgDXj9E HT @bu -
Christopher Allen
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. • Learn how to learn fr… https://ift.tt/2VIQpSe
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Greg Lloyd
29 Apr 2020: It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.
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