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Here’s my own answer to the question of cultivating High Agency. Here I’ve split High Agency into the Traits you need & the Skills you need. To cultivate High Agency, work on these component Skills & Traits. Ownership Mindset is perhaps the most important of the 3 Traits.
Everything we create, everything we do, it all starts with our thinking
Clear thinking drastically improves odds of success in all departments of career & life
While clear thinking is quite rare, it can be developed with practice
Advanced principles for clear thinking:
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4 PDF’s that I consider are key for any investor to read:
1. Peter Lynch’s articles
2. All writings of Warren Buffett
3. Nomad shareholder letters (Nick Sleep)
4. Fundsmith’s shareholder letters (Terry Smith)
All can be found on our website for free:
https://t.co/9eZK769nPU
For clear writing, answer these questions
1. What Am I Really Trying To Say
2. Why Should People Care
3. What Is The Most Important Point
4. What Is The Easiest Way To Understand The Most Important Point
5. How Do I Want The Reader To Feel
6. What Should The Reader Do Next
When some senior leaders join a team, they think that the previous leaders & team must be idiots because “Look at all the problems here”, often not realizing that it took extraordinary effort & insight to even get to the stage where it became necessary to hire said senior leader.
• Would I recommend myself as [blank]?
We all serve many roles in life.
Parent. Spouse. Friend. Leader. Teammate.
Would you recommend yourself as that?
If not, evaluate why and change.
I have this old 2006 BusinessWeek framed as a reminder. The “risky bet” that Wall Street disliked was AWS, which generated revenue of more than $62 billion last year.
@wdmorrisjr Sorry but highly disagree that a different job won’t make me happy. I changed jobs 6 months after being stuck doing an incredibly soul-draining one and am having the best time of my life!