A Few Rules
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A Few Rules
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#2Great observations IMO. The points about telling the most compelling story and telling people what they want to hear resonate especially well with the current international stage.
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#3Great observations IMO. The points about telling the most compelling story and telling people what they want to hear resonate especially well with the current international stage.
The example that came to my mind was startups and how they tell investors what they want to hear (Nikola, Theranos, etc.)
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#4Great observations IMO. The points about telling the most compelling story and telling people what they want to hear resonate especially well with the current international stage.
The example that came to my mind was startups and how they tell investors what they want to hear (Nikola, Theranos, etc.)
Or even established companies talking about their "efforts" to go green, be more eco-friendly, reduce animal cruelty, etc, when the only effort they're really making is marketing themselves as such.
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#5Behaviors and outcomes rarely change, but history is driven by surprising events...? I admit that this juxtaposition of the listed rules confuses me. The first part/rule would seem to indicate that history is driven by predictable, probable, or otherwise bell-curvy events.
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#6My top four:
Behavior is hard to fix. People say they’ve learned but they underestimate how much of their previous mistake was caused by emotions that will return when faced with the same circumstances.
Being good at something doesn’t promise rewards. It doesn’t even promise a compliment. What’s rewarded in the world is scarcity, so what matters is what you can do that other people are bad at.
People learn when they’re surprised. Not when they read the right answer, or are told they’re doing it wrong, but when their jaw hits the floor.
Most fields have only a few laws. Lots of theories, hunches, observations, ideas, trends, and rules. But laws--things that are always true, all the time--are rare.
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#7Behaviors and outcomes rarely change, but history is driven by surprising events...? I admit that this juxtaposition of the listed rules confuses me. The first part/rule would seem to indicate that history is driven by predictable, probable, or otherwise bell-curvy events.
The author may have been thinking along similar lines to Shaw's aphorism, which goes something like: The reasonable man changes himself to fit the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to change the world to fit himself; therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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#8> History is deep. Almost everything has been done before. The characters and scenes change, but the behaviors and outcomes rarely do.
I think about this multiple times in a day. Whenever I am presented with seemingly impossible tasks/deadlines, I ponder that the history must have witnessed atleast one person with the same circumstances as I am. Most of my problems are not so unique and there could be plenty of examples to emerge successfully. Sometimes that keeps me going.
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#9Reminds me of this great Non Sequitur[0], and this one[1],
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#10"A Cynic's Guide to Cognitive Dissonance"