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The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

Our tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered, particularly if that information is presented in numeric form, when making decisions, estimates, or predictions. This is the reason negotiators start with a number that is deliberately too low or too high: They know that number will “anchor” the subsequent dealings.

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We’re terrible at planning our time. Here’s how to fix it

When researchers studied groups who had made implementation intentions like this, they found they began work on the task sooner, experienced fewer interruptions, and were better able to judge how long future similar tasks would take them.

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The Untold Story of How GoPro’s CEO Lost His Way

Nick Woodman: What I’ve Learned

Simpler is better
“As an individual, how you organize your day affects your productivity. As a company, how you organize your teams and your communication affects your efficiency. What we did was, we structured ourselves as a much bigger business. But complexity breeds complexity, and we learned that when the organization is structured that way, you’re not as nimble.

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The cure for an anxious, sucky life, in less than 550 words

To lead. And through leadership, you notice that you can’t help but get better; create better things; increase your skills; lead better; show others the way.

With a leader’s mind, you’re no longer focused on your pains. …

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Why Your Brain Tricks You Into Doing Less Important Tasks

Even if we know a larger, less-urgent task is vastly more consequential, we will instinctively choose to do a smaller, urgent task anyway. Yet again, thanks for nothing, brain.  So what are we to do?

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Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work

The most successful people I know have one thing in common: they are masters at eliminating the unnecessary from their lives. The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hit on the same idea, writing in his memoir, “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” This principle, it turns out, is the key to success.

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How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It’s All in the Timing

First, our cognitive abilities don’t remain static over the course of a day. During the 16 or so hours we’re awake, they change—often in a regular, foreseeable manner. We are smarter, faster and more creative in some parts of the day than others.

Second, these daily fluctuations can be extreme. “The performance change between the daily high point and the daily low point can be equivalent to the effect on performance of drinking the legal limit of alcohol,”

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Do You Have Trouble Sticking to Your Crazy Schedule? Try This!

The foundation is understanding when in your life you were most successful, most productive, and when you were experiencing peak performance. This will be different for everybody, but this is my analysis and interpretation of how and when I function best, and if you are at all similar to me, use this methodology, and this guide, or at least some variation of it.

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28 Successful Executives Share the Best Advice They Received From Their Dads

A father’s example and advice can inexorably affect the lives of his children. Here’s how more than two dozen successful leaders say their dads affected their trajectories.
1. Surround yourself with great people…

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How to be a more adaptable leader

If you’re a leader, before you issue instructions or hand out tasks, take the time to think through what you actually want to achieve.

What is the intent behind the work you want done? What is the outcome you desire? Does it matter how your team attacks it?

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Incredibly Important Skills Will Make You More Successful Over Time

“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,”

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