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Showing posts with label strategic thinking. Show all posts

008 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Chase Jarvis
Creativity is a new literacy
Hacker mentality - develop it in yourself

Once you are great at your craft, the rest is vision, hack the system

Negotiation is an essential life skill

Being great at your craft is a requirement

Learn to position yourself in marketplace

Be great at telling your story, storytelling is a great influence tool, packaging story is mission critical find ways to hack the system

How do you differentiate yourself in market place? be different, not better...zig when everybody is zagging

There are no more gate keepers like magazines & publishing houses...there is internet

Take ideas from other spheres, industries to be great at your skill

Be different not better

22 laws of marketing book

blue ocean strategy book

business model generation book

share your work, austin cleon book

smartcuts, kevin kelly

polymaths vs hyperspecialists

specialization is for insects -Isaac Azimov, be polymath!!!

Kickstarter

Indiegogo

Youtube

Patreon

It is permissible to be polymath

If you spread yourself too thin vs. if you have predisposition with right tools, you can become good pretty quickly

What did you start saying no to for reaching your goals?

Set limits to number of activities to be able to reach your goals 20 % customer make 80% of your income

004 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show Podcast, Ryan Holiday

Philosophy is used for solving practical problems

You do not control the world around you, you only control your response to the world around you

Stoicism - operating system for making better decisions in your life

Real problem is to think that you need money for surviving

Enjoy wealth but do not think that it is key for your survival, practice voluntary poverty

Make riches serve you, not you serving to riches

The problem is not having riches, but riches having you

Tucker Max
Robert Green

Find a mentor whom you can use as a ruler to compare yourself

Jack Canfield
chicken soup for the soul

Fog of war documentary

Wall of Sound documentary

How to be a good writer?
Live interesting life, do something interesting and write about it....write only when you have something to say...unless do not write at all

If you do 1 or 2 things you will feel busy, if you do 4 or 5 things you are not that busy and things help each other

To write one book is hard, but the more you write, the easier it gets


Ryan runs everyday

Top 2 3 books
Sarah Bagwell how to live book
Ulysses s. Grant biography book
The fish that ate the whale book

Pharnam Street Shane parish blog

Maker vs Manager schedule

Paul graham essays

To be rich you need either make lots of money or limit your wants & desires

Keep your identity small, be able to live for small salary, do not develop expensive habits, otherwise when you get poor it will be difficult to live

Learn and practice financial management, save money for difficult days

Human action, technology are creating climate change and super storms

Being greedy when others are fearful, being fearful when others are greedy - Warren Buffet

Sub-reddits are great source of info

Survivorship bias

War of Art S. Pressfield book
Meditations Marcus Aurelius book
Robert Green book

Learn to read people

Gladiator movie

Shown of the dead movie

https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-4-ryan-holiday