1 thought, 1 quote, 1 tip
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One thought to unlock
Alice Schroeder shared an intriguing story in Snowball, the biography of Warren Buffett.
During dinner one night, Bill Gates Sr. posed the question to the table: What factor did they feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in life? Warren Buffett said, ‘Focus.’ Bill Gates said the same
thing.
In life, you tend to split our attentions between different roles and responsibilities. You try to juggle many things. And you're
exhausted. What can you do to help yourself when you're exhausted? Here are 11 that might help.
In the lives of many successful people, their answer to being more effective? It's not doing more. It's doing less. The epitome of
their success is simple. Focus.
One quote to understand
In a 1981 interview, Nobel laureate
Richard Feynman shared how he made time to think about difficult problems.
So I have invented another myth for myself—that I’m irresponsible. I tell everybody, I don’t do anything. If anybody asks me to be on a committee to take care of admissions, no, I’m irresponsible, I don’t give a damn about the students—of
course I give a damn about the students but I know that somebody else’ll do it—and I take the view, “Let George do it,” a view which you’re not supposed to take, okay, because that’s not right to do, but I do that because I like to do physics and I want to see if I can still do it, and so I’m selfish, okay? I want to do my
physics.
One tip to unleash
In business philosopher Jim Collin’s book Good to Great, he shares the secrets behind how mediocre companies make the leap to greatness.
He found that besides having a to-do list, the companies who made the leap to greatness also had a stop-doing list. To focus their efforts on the most effective actions, they decided on things they would not
do.
Today, create a stop-doing list for yourself. The fact is that you are human. You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. Knowing how to focus on the most effective actions brings you to greatness, rather than
mediocrity.
What's stopping you from making your stop-doing list?
John
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