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“Intensity is the price of excellence”
Read more: “Intensity is the price of excellence”– Warren Buffett I’m about a quarter of the way through Alice Schroeder’s excellent 1,000 page biography of Warren Buffett and I’m struck by two things, both of which are summarized by this quote that she attributes to him. First, was his voracious appetite for learning. He devoured everything he could get his hands on:…
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Three lessons for your business from Steve Jobs
Read more: Three lessons for your business from Steve JobsIt’s been 10 years since Steve Jobs passed away, but the lessons to be learned from his life and the business he built will be around for a long time. Possibly the best insight into what made Jobs what he was comes from the biography Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. The book was published in 2015 but I read it…
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What I read in May
Read more: What I read in MayMy reading slowed a bit in May as I hired a business coach to help me with some changes in the business. It’s something I hope to write more about at a future time, but it required a lot of my time and attention, so reading decreased a bit. But learning did not. I was…
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Focusing Attention in an Age of Distraction
Read more: Focusing Attention in an Age of DistractionI recently finished listening to Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. “Flow” is one of those concepts, the definition of which you can find in my previous post, that I have read a lot about without ever reading a book from the source. There was one aspect of flow that surprised me.…
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Finding flow in reading
Read more: Finding flow in readingThis morning, I was listening to Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who originated the concept of Flow. Something he wrote about reading and flow jumped out at me. But to understand it, you’ll have to understand the concept of flow. Flow, which is also known as being in…
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What I read last quarter
Read more: What I read last quarterI read. A lot. Last year, I read 164 books. No, that’s not a typo. Yes, that’s an average of three books per week. I’ve been asked how I can possibly get to that many books and there are three reasons: And thanks to COVID-19, I’ve suddenly had a lot more time to read. It’s…
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Who am I? Why am I here?
Read more: Who am I? Why am I here?I’m a life-long learner and content creator who plans to share the best of both on this blog.
