8 highlights
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Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.
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Always demand a deadline.
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The only kind of credit, or debt, that is acceptable is debt to acquire something whose exchange value is extremely likely to increase, like in a home. The exchange value of most things diminishes or vanishes the moment you purchase them.
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The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you.
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Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator.
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If you lose or forget to bring a cable, adapter or charger, check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables, adapters and chargers others have left behind, and probably have the one you are missing.
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if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.
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Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.