This is an important question. Because you are becoming them.
Dr David McClelland of Harvard University found, over a thirty year study period that our reference groups, the people we habitually associate with determine 95% of our success or failure.
So if you just do one thing this year then reviewing your ‘reference group’ is likely to have the biggest impact.
There’s a tendency to gather information, and more information, and more information, indefinitely if a decision is important.
Your next 40 years will be determined by your next ten years.
A mantra I live by in business is, ‘tolerance is the enemy of excellence.’
Functional fixes are not solutions for existential misalignments.
If you’re buying your lunch from someone, what happens if he’s 20cms shorter than you?
It’s almost certain that what’s being agreed isn’t fully understood.
Don’t be a dick.
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
In tennis, the majority of the game is spent volleying.