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@EverydaySpy Good point on the question. Asking how someone felt moves them from facts, which can be rehearsed, to experience, which is harder to fake. Then listen for what’s missing, not just what’s said.

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@RyanHoliday Truth! I remember the one man who believed in me when no one else would: https://t.co/2Eliw4TZsL

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Cincinnatus saved Rome, held absolute power for about two weeks, then went home to his plow. The test of a leader isn't how firmly he takes authority. It's how willingly he gives it up.
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The most useful thing a man can keep is an honest record of what he noticed.

For the man who's been paying attention to everything except the direction he's going.

Cole's Field Notes is on the YouTube channel: https://t.co/7jbkFzv2GU

#AshfordCole #Fieldnotes #Selfimprovement

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@readswithravi Discipline is a conversation you have with yourself before anyone else is awake.

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@ILOVEQUOTEBOOKS Attention is the first thing you give and the last thing you get back.

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Most men are not defeated by what they face. They’re defeated by what they keep postponing.

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@Book_therapy223 None of these are clever. That’s why they work. They’re the habits people skip while they hunt for a clever one.

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@RyanHoliday What the four share isn’t that they were unlucky. It’s that none of them was undone by it. Stockdale kept his bearing in the camp. Marcus kept his in the palace. The habit is what you build ahead of time.

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@dailystoic The part people skip: it’s about things you can’t control. It isn’t a license to stop caring. It’s a way to save the caring for what you can actually move.

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The one interaction that changed my life #lifelessons #growth #mindset https://t.co/vUiir0Mekm via @YouTube

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The Alchemist: Notes on a Book I Don't Believe, and Keep Anyway https://t.co/MIe6VFHUkB

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He walked 300 miles to learn the treasure was under his own house. He still needed to go.

People say the lesson is that it was home all along. I don't think so. And I don't think the universe conspired to hand it to him. The man who left could never have found it. The man who came back could.

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@business Selling insider shares is a different signal from raising capital. It lets early people take some risk off the table without the company selling itself. That’s a sign of maturity, and it also means the people closest to it are choosing to diversify.

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@ForeignPolicy @adam_tooze Diesel is the quiet input in nearly everything on a shelf: the truck, the tractor, the ship, the train. When it rises, the effect shows up at the checkout weeks later, spread across so many items that nobody traces it back.

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@politico Scenario planning is the right instinct. When you can’t predict, you decide in advance what would change your mind. The triggers matter more than the forecast.

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@shaneparrish Follow through is the one that matters most. Anyone can follow up. The reason people say yes the third time is that you did what you said the first time.

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@artofmanliness Nobody ever said ‘I wish he’d left that alone.'

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@WSJopinion @SpencerGuard Every serious institution decides what it’s trying to produce. For officers, it’s judgment under pressure. Worth asking whether the curriculum is built for that or for something easier to measure.