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89 audio highlights found
July 14th, 2025
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Maxims For Thinking Analytically
4:57 PM
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"Therefore, learning to think probabilistically (assessing subjective probabilities of various scenarios and updating these probabilities with new information) is a critical life skill. "
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Maxims For Thinking Analytically
4:55 PM
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"When you are having trouble getting your thinking straight, consider an extreme or simple case. This will often give you the insight you need to move forward."
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July 13th, 2025
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Courage Equals Freedom w/ Claude
1:44 AM
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"THE PRICE OF SAFETY Safety is expensive. It costs you everything that matters: Your dreams Your potential Your growth"
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Discipline Equals Freedom
1:10 AM
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"BINARY CODE Machines make their decisions based on binary code. Yes or no. It is not complicated. Are you going to work out? Yes or no. Are you going to get up? Yes or no. Are you going to get off the couch? Yes or no. Are you going to eat that donut? Yes or no. This is not complicated. And sometimes you have to put yourself into this mode: Binary Decision-Making. Are you going to be weak or strong? Are you going to be healthy or unhealthy? Are you going to improve your life? Are you going to make it worse? Are you going to sacrifice long-term success for short-term gratification? You know the right answers. You know the right decision. Don’t overcomplicate. Binary Decision-Making. Make the right decisions."
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Discipline Equals Freedom
1:08 AM
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"HESITATION IS THE ENEMY. Hesitation allows the moment to pass, the opportunity to be lost, the enemy to get the upper hand. Hesitation turns into cowardice. It stops us from moving forward, from taking initiative, from executing what we know we must. Hesitation defeats us. So we must defeat it. To win, all you have to do is overcome that moment: The Waiting. The Hesitation. And to do that, all you have to do is: Go. Move. Take the action. Get out of bed. Get your feet on the ground. Step forward. Do not hesitate. Do not wait. Go forward: And win."
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Discipline Equals Freedom
1:06 AM
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"How do I handle those days when I’m just not “feeling it”? Those days when I am tired or worn out or just sick of the grind… What do I do on those days? I GO ANYWAY. I GET IT DONE. Even if I am just going through the motions— I GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS. Don’t really want to work out? I work out. Don’t really want to hammer on a project? I hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed? I GET UP AND GET OUT OF BED. Now—these could be signals that you need some time off—and those signals might be right. BUT—don’t take today off. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear. SHUT THAT DOWN. DO NOT LISTEN. Instead: Go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. GET OUT OF BED."
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Discipline Equals Freedom
1:04 AM
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"Discipline starts with waking up early. It really does. But that is just the beginning; you absolutely have to apply it to things beyond waking up early. It is working out, every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more flexible and healthier. It is eating the right foods, to fuel your system correctly. It is disciplining your emotions, so you can make good decisions. It is about having the discipline to control your ego, so it doesn’t get out of hand   and control you. It is about treating people the way you would want to be treated. It is about doing the tasks you don’t want to do, but you know will help you. Discipline is about facing your fears so you can conquer them. Discipline means taking the hard road— the uphill road. To do what is right. For you and for others."
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Discipline Equals Freedom
1:02 AM
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"You have control over your mind. You just have to assert it. You have to decide that you are going to be in control, that you are going to do what YOU want to do. Weakness doesn’t get a vote. Laziness doesn’t get a vote. Sadness doesn’t get a vote. Frustration doesn’t get a vote. Negativity DOESN’T GET A VOTE! Your temper doesn’t get a vote. So next time you are feeling weak or lazy or soft or emotional, tell those feelings they don’t get a vote. You are declaring martial law on your mind:"
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Discipline Equals Freedom
12:39 AM
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"THERE MUST BE DISCIPLINE. Discipline: The root of all good qualities. The driver of daily execution. The core principle that overcomes laziness and lethargy and excuses. Discipline defeats the infinite excuses that say: Not today, not now, I need a rest, I will do it tomorrow."
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Discipline Equals Freedom
12:38 AM
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"THERE IS NO EASY WAY. There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline. DISCIPLINE."
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High Output Management
12:35 AM
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"Activities lead to output. Some on different scales. A manager is measured by his output + the output of his subordinates, associates Managers partake in activities to affect output. Providing direction, allocating resources, detect mistakes.... but Activity != Output."
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Keith Rabois
12:17 AM
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"we all have a natural human tendency to achieve psychological satisfaction by crossing some things off the list every day. And those things tend to be the easier things to cross off the list, because you know how to do them. Whereas the hard things, like let's say, "I want to become President," there's no easy path to that. There's no way you could just sit down and say, "If I allocate two hours today, I'm going to achieve this objective." And so people tend to defer those kinds of decisions.And so the purpose of the focus is to not allow the substitution of the easy things, like going to the gym, against the important objectives that require intense effort. And so by requiring people to substitute, eventually you get breakthroughs, because people aren't distracted by the easy stuff. So basically, what you're doing is not allowing people to put stuff on the list that's easy to solve, and then allowing them the psychological satisfaction of crossing the easy stuff off the list. You're basically saying, "There's only one thing on your list, two things on your list, and by the way, they're the most important things. So you're not going to get satisfied. So you get those achieved." what do I really want to be doing? What's the highest leverage thing for my family or highest leverage for my happiness, highest leverage as a CEO, highest leverage for Founders Fund, but constantly asking that question."
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Keith Rabois
12:11 AM
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"So I think you have to ascribe a significant value to every increment of time, whether it's a minute, an hour, you can divide it however you like. But fundamentally, ask yourself, "Is this worth it? Is this the best thing I can be doing with my time?""
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Keith Rabois
12:09 AM
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"So for example, back in the early days of Square, I used to walk around saying no to anything that didn't have 10x potential. And you know, some people would be frustrated because they could say, you know, this project will yield 20% growth. I'm like, I don't really care. I need zeros, like adding zeros to our dashboard. If we don't add zeros to our dashboard, we just don't matter. And so by spending time adding 20%, it means that someone's not spending time thinking through how to add zeros. So you have to say no. It's a classic Apple lesson of like saying no to many things, so you can be awesome at a few. And very few people apply this."
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Keith Rabois
12:07 AM
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"Basically, people use software as a calendar, and they fill in slots, as opposed to optimizing and leveraging time."
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Keith Rabois
12:06 AM
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"I think the number one predictor of that success is a natural instinct for how to allocate time, and where the high-leverage activities are."
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Keith Rabois
12:05 AM
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"most people systematically undervalue their time."
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Keith Rabois
12:04 AM
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"I think the most important thing is allocation of time. I mean, time is a scarce resource."
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July 12th, 2025
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Brainstorm
Work Mindsets
9:32 PM
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"Think with the work product in mind. Keep it moving, keep it active, don't let it get stuck or frozen. "
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Work Mindsets
9:31 PM
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"Just remember the treadmill. It's going to be hard, it's going to be slow, you're going to suck but you're not going to quit until you're done and before you know it you'll realize it's not that hard, and you get your wind, and it doesn't suck but rather it's kinda fun. But you have to remember that's the natural progression every single time. It sucks to start but "
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Work Mindsets
9:29 PM
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"If you've done it before you can do it again. "
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Work Mindsets
9:29 PM
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"You can just do stuff. You won't die. People won't yell at you. Ask for forgiveness not permission. With all this understood, why aren't you moving faster?"
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Work Mindsets
9:28 PM
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"You cannot get blocked. Clarify, simplify, execute against resistance, repeat."
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Work Mindsets
9:27 PM
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"Save your perfectionism for the things that actually matter. The impact is leveraged perfectionism. Don't nitpick at something only a few people are going to actually use anyway."
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Work Mindsets
9:26 PM
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"Just because you feel like it matters, doesn't mean it matters. Don't take yourself so serious. Just do stuff, don't let your protection of your self-image hold you back from moving things forward"
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Work Mindsets
9:26 PM
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"The days you don't feel like working are THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS TO WORK"
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Work Mindsets
9:25 PM
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"Wear resistance like a rucksack. It's heavy, it will slow you down. But don't let it stop you."
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Work Mindsets
8:21 PM
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"Just because you feel like it matters, doesn't mean it matters. What people think about you doesn't matter. (Even if it's good!) Feel like it does, know that it doesn't."
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Work Mindsets
8:20 PM
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"Do not persist in confusion. Clarify. Simplify. Execute against resistance. Repeat "
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Work Mindsets
8:19 PM
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"Just because it feels like it matters, doesn't mean it matters. It's an illusion of urgency. Fight it with everything. You have to be strong enough to resist it and impose your desired urgency into the world to pull forward your desired future"
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Work Mindsets
8:18 PM
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"The resistance to the work is THE REASON to lock in an do/complete the work"
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Descartes' Error
8:15 PM
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"The factual knowledge required for reasoning and decision making comes to the mind in the form of images. If you look out the window at the autumn landscape, or listen to the music playing in the background, or run your fingers over a smooth metal surface, or read these words, line after line down this page, you are perceiving, and thereby forming images of varied sensory modalities. The images so formed are called perceptual images."
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Descartes' Error
8:08 PM
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"To date we have studied twelve patients with prefrontal damage of the type seen in Elliot, and in none have we failed to encounter a combination of decision-making defect and flat emotion and feeling. The powers of reason and the experience of emotion decline together, and their impairment stands out in a neuropsychological profile within which basic attention, memory, intelligence, and language appear so intact that they could never be invoked to explain the patients’ failures in judgment."
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Descartes' Error
8:06 PM
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"The defect appeared to set in at the late stages of reasoning, close to or at the point at which choice making or response selection must occur. In other words, whatever went wrong went wrong late in the process. Elliot was unable to choose effectively, or he might not choose at all, or choose badly. Remember how he would drift from a given task and spend hours sidetracked? As we are confronted by a task, a number of options open themselves in front of us and we must select our path correctly, time after time, if we are to keep on target. Elliot could no longer select that path. Why he could not is what we needed to discover."
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Descartes' Error
7:56 PM
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"The machinery for his decision making was so flawed that he could no longer be an effective social being."
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Descartes' Error
7:53 PM
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"After the accident, he no longer showed respect for social convention; ethics in the broad sense of the term, were violated; the decisions he made did not take into account his best interest, and he was given to invent tales “without any foundation except in his fancy,” in Harlow’s words. There was no evidence of concern about his future, no sign of forethought."
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Descartes' Error
7:52 PM
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"Somehow, there were systems in the human brain dedicated more to reasoning than to anything else, and in particular to the personal and social dimensions of reasoning. The observance of previously acquired social convention and ethical rules could be lost as a result of brain damage, even when neither basic intellect nor language seemed compromised."
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Descartes' Error
7:49 PM
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"Were it not for the possibility of sensing body states that are inherently ordained to be painful or pleasurable, there would be no suffering or bliss, no longing or mercy, no tragedy or glory in the human condition."
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Descartes' Error
7:49 PM
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"By and large, a feeling is the momentary “view” of a part of that body landscape. It has a specific content—the state of the body; and specific neural systems that support it—the peripheral nervous system and the brain regions that integrate signals related to body structure and regulation. Because the sense of that body landscape is juxtaposed in time to the perception or recollection of something else that is not part of the body—a face, a melody, an aroma—feelings end up being “qualifiers” to that something else."
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Descartes' Error
7:29 PM
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"A second idea in the book, then, is that the essence of a feeling may not be an elusive mental quality attached to an object, but rather the direct perception of a specific landscape: that of the body."
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Descartes' Error
7:28 PM
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"Emotion and feeling, along with the covert physiological machinery underlying them, assist us with the daunting task of predicting an uncertain future and planning our actions accordingly. Emotion, feeling, and biological regulation all play a role in human reason. The lowly orders of our organism are in the loop of high reason."
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Denise Shull
7:20 PM
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"Too much focus on thinking and doing and the solution is to change your thoughts. But it doesn't work! Feeling is the entry point to effect Thinking and Deciding"
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Denise Shull
7:17 PM
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"Feelings and emotions are delivering information and summarizing a belief set. To become more objective, you must externalize it"
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Denise Shull
7:15 PM
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"We have belief and expectations that are delivered to us through feeling and visceral intelligence and body cognition"
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Denise Shull
7:11 PM
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"You need to understand why you're feeling how you're feeling and what that feeling is trying to tell you and use that to either acquire more information, look at the information in a different way, or just live with that feeling"
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Denise Shull
7:09 PM
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"Feelings predict choice"
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Denise Shull
7:08 PM
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"The superpower is being able to answer the question what am I feeling and why am I feeling it and getting both parts right. Easy to say, harder to do."
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Denise Shull
7:08 PM
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"All behavior is explained by what people think they're feeling and their prediction of what they will feel in the future."
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June 30th, 2025
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:33 PM
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"a heuristic can be characterized by three principles: search, stopping, and decision."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:32 PM
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"Loosely speaking, Take The Best embodies a noncompensatory structure, and if the environment has the same structure then there is a fit. Take The Best “bets” that the environment is skewed as in figure 6-2 (left), whereas Dawes’s rule treats information in the world as if it were levelled as in figure 6-2 (right)."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:26 PM
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"The environment is "smart" when these correlations align, but "deceptive" when they don't - like when marketing creates recognition without quality, or when rare but memorable events distort probability judgments."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:25 PM
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"Three variables that describe the relationship between the criterion, mediator, and mind are the recognition validity, the ecological correlation, and the surrogate correlation."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:19 PM
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"The challenge ahead is not to construct models of omniscient minds, but rather of adaptive minds that can act quickly and reliably in their environments."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
3:17 PM
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"their exploitation of environment structure and their robustness (generalizing appropriately to new situations as opposed to overfitting—"
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June 29th, 2025
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The Art of Winning
8:06 PM
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"If you think you’re committed to improvement but you’re still fooling around during the day and wasting time at work, you are lying. You’re paying lip service to what really matters."
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The Art of Winning
8:05 PM
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"Improvement is not “getting ahead”—improvement is working to get better at your job every day."
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The Art of Winning
8:04 PM
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"Improvement as a daily practice. Improvement as identity. Improvement as something that simultaneously humbles you (because you know you’ll never touch the ceiling of what’s possible) at the same time as it dignifies your work, whatever it might be."
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The Art of Winning
8:01 PM
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"DON’T WAIT AROUND EXPECTING SOMEONE ELSE TO MOTIVATE YOU. IF COMPETITION ITSELF DOESN’T GET YOU GOING, EMBRACE JEALOUSY. ACCEPT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SELFISHNESS AS LONG AS SELFISHNESS CAN BE CHANNELED TOWARD WINNING HABITS. LET YOURSELF BE ASHAMED OF BAD PERFORMANCES. ONCE YOU GET EVERYTHING YOU CAN OUT OF SELFISHNESS, FINISH THE JOB BY FIGHTING FOR THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU."
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The Art of Winning
8:00 PM
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"Ultimately there is nothing that maximizes talent more than love for the game. An individual’s contribution to a win starts with caring more than the other guy."
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The Art of Winning
7:57 PM
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"When you succeed at work, you’ve created that success. When you win, you’ve created the win. No win is circumstantial. If you hope to sustain winning, what you are hoping for is to impose your will on the circumstances instead of merely waiting for an advantageous moment to appear. If you have a good process, the big games will take care of themselves. As a leader, that means your job is to bring the game back to the basics and not get caught up in the extracurriculars. As a player, that means your job is to perform well under the brightest of lights."
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The Art of Winning
7:55 PM
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"don’t waste time and energy on stuff that doesn’t really move the needle. A successful process depends on ignoring the noise. And, unfortunately, the noise exists."
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The Art of Winning
7:54 PM
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"Building a good process starts with identifying and understanding what is most important to success."
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The Art of Winning
7:54 PM
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"A good process results in good habits. Consistent good habits result in dependability. The goal is to have a good, consistent process—and good results will follow. Then, winning becomes a practice. And finally, a habit. In other words, when we prepare to win, we prepare to win all the time."
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The Art of Winning
7:53 PM
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"To reach your ultimate goal, you cannot try to master a result. You must master a process."
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The Art of Winning
7:52 PM
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"If you think about winning as something that starts and stops, something that can be turned on or off, or as something that can be “ramped up” when convenient, then you will never be ready to implement a true sustainable winning program. There are no end points in winning, period."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:41 PM
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"Similarly, laboratory research has demonstrated that recognition memory continues to encode information even in divided-attention learning tasks that are too distracting to allow more substantial memories to be formed Mere recognition, this essentially binary feeling that we have or have not experienced something before, is a minimal state of knowledge. Why do minds encode it? What is mere recognition good for?"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:36 PM
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"Although we focus on cognitive heuristics in this book, it is important to point out that emotions can also function as heuristic principles for guiding and stopping information search."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:34 PM
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"This is the basic idea of the adaptive toolbox: the collection of specialized cognitive mechanisms that evolution has built into the human mind for specific domains of inference and reasoning, including fast and frugal heuristics The focus of this book is on fast and frugal heuristics for higher order cognitive processes that call upon lower order processes of cue perception and memory. We do not need to know precisely how recognition memory works to describe a heuristic that relies on recognition. This example illustrates an apparently paradoxical thesis: Higher order cognitive mechanisms can often be modeled by simpler algorithms than can lower order mechanisms."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:29 PM
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"This “heuristics-and-biases” program launched by Tversky and Kahneman (1974) tainted the idea of simple mental mechanisms by attaching them to the value-laden “bias” term in a single inseparable phrase. Within this program, heuristics were often invoked as the explanation when errors—mainly deviations from the laws of probability—were found in human reasoning."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:26 PM
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"There is a point where too much information and too much information processing can hurt. Cognition is the art of focusing on the relevant and deliberately ignoring the rest. We take the same approach to modeling cognition."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:10 PM
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"Network structures create echo chambers - Interconnected information sources can amplify the same biases or errors across multiple seemingly independent sources."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2:07 PM
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"Degradation gradients - Information quality or relevance decreases systematically as you move away from optimal sources."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:58 PM
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"Information Structure: How the world naturally organizes and presents information to us when we're trying to make decisions."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:50 PM
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"These real-world requirements lead to a new conception of what proper reasoning is: ecological rationality. The study of ecological rationality thus involves analyzing the structure of environments, the structure of heuristics, and the match between them, as we will see throughout this book."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:49 PM
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"Such one-reason decision making does not need to weight or combine cues, and so no common currency between cues need be determined. Decisions can also be made through a simple elimination process, in which alternatives are thrown out by successive cues until only one final choice remains"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:39 PM
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"The heuristic principles for guiding search, whether across alternatives or information"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:29 PM
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"For a fast and frugal heuristic, this means the computational model must specify principles for guiding a search for alternatives, information, or both, stopping that search, and making a decision."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:26 PM
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"Fast and frugal heuristics limit their search of objects or information using easily computable stopping rules, and they make their choices with easily computable decision rules. We thus see satisficing and fast and frugal heuristics as two overlapping but different categories of bounded rationality:"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:24 PM
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"Satisficing takes the shortcut of setting an adjustable aspiration level and ending the search for alternatives as soon as one is encountered that exceeds the aspiration level"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:23 PM
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"The general point is that to understand which heuristic an organism employs, and when and why the heuristic works well, one needs to look at the structure of the information in the environment."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:21 PM
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"Limited search requires a way to decide when to stop looking for information, that is, a stopping rule. The models in the class we call “optimization under constraints” assume that the stopping rule optimizes search with respect to the time, computation, money, and other resources being spent."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:18 PM
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"In reasonable models, search must be limited because real decision makers have only a finite amount of time, knowledge, attention, or money to spend on a particular decision."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:16 PM
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"But the situation is usually even more challenging than this, because rarely is information given. Instead we must search for information—cues to classify heart attack patients as high risk, reasons to marry, indicators of stock market fluctuation, and so on. Information search is usually thought of as being internal, performed on the contents of one’s memory. But it is important to recognize that much information search is external, looking through the knowledge embodied in the surrounding environment. This external search includes seeking information in the socially distributed memory spanning friends and experts and in human artifacts such as libraries and the Internet."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:16 PM
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"One philosopher was struggling to decide whether to stay at Columbia University or to accept a job offer from a rival university. The other advised him: “Just maximize your expected utility—you always write about doing this.” Exasperated, the first philosopher responded: “Come on, this is serious.”"
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:14 PM
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"much of human reasoning and decision making can be modeled by fast and frugal heuristics that make inferences with limited time and knowledge."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:13 PM
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"The moment one moves beyond simple constrained settings such as ones that psychologists and computer scientists study to real-world situations that people actually live through, the time, knowledge, and computation that probabilistic models demand grow unfeasibly large. As a consequence, when these models meet the rigors of reality, they turn into a psychology more applicable to supernatural beings than to mere humans."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:10 PM
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"From a descriptive standpoint, they are intended to capture how real minds make decisions under constraints of limited time and knowledge."
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
1:09 PM
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"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
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June 28th, 2025
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The Art of Action
3:50 PM
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"Faced with a lack of knowledge, it seems logical to seek more detailed information. Faced with a problem of alignment, it feels natural to issue more detailed instructions. And faced with disappointment in the effects being achieved, it is quite understandable to impose more detailed controls. Unfortunately, these reactions do not solve the problem. In fact, they make it worse."
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