Why do people stay in their comfort zone?
Essentially they do it to avoid failure.
But here’s the thing, if you really wanted something and it was inside your comfort zone, don’t you think you’d already have it?
Everything you really want, that you don’t already have, lies outside your comfort zone.
Staying in your comfort zone is therefore a sure fire way to fail.
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.