Jaques barzan- simple and direct

1) Writers must be self taught

2) Pedantry- people who trifle about trivialities
3) What are my problems in writing and other, solutions,
4) compose a parody of engineering, parallelism- using same words to contrast and
compare-like fathe like son – use the word like
5) subordinate clause- clause that depends on another. E.g once I reach home requires
more info.
6) Write for the listening audience.

Tao of Seneca 2
1) Amelia Boone – House of Leaves
2) Focius on quality of life vs length
3)
Built to Sell
1) When company sell – keep owner for 3 years

The Compound effect-darren hardy

1) Imagine yourself as a locomotive
2) Give cards on Thanksgving vs xmas to be remembered ( unexpected)
3) Choice + habit = goals
4) persuade wife to persuade person

The Essentialist
1) Explore and evaluate options to pick the best one, detailed exploration of options
2) Focus and choice are verbs not nouns or adjectives
3) Those who write a journal are a journalist
4) Sunk cost bias-fear of waste
5) Endowment bias- wouldn’t wash a rental car
6) Fear of going back on your word
7) Three ways of work- aeistotle theoretical leads to truth, practical and poetical less work
more output
8) Visualize all steps of something before doing
9) Warren buffet spends 1 year deciding and 1 day doing

Tao of Seneca 3
1) Precepts- general rule
2) If you set a high value on liberty everything else has low value
3) Everyone enjoys their sins
4) Doctrines/etiology (branch of knowledge concerned with causes)
5) Laws are rules with threats
6) Clear the path for those above you and yours will be cleared
7) Enlightenment is the space between thoughts
8) Happy is a choice. The more you say it the more u do it.

Josh waizkin-the art of learning

1) Focus on left side

The obstacle is the way- ryan holiday

1)

Manifestation miracle-
1) Lose ego
2) Bearthe 1-inhale exhale 2-tim f- feel breath on edge of nostrils
3) Deep breath- 5-7s inhale
4) Good at dribbling and providing, I am clasiic midfielder (time to add finishing), mirroring,
danvcing, lego, reading story books as a kid, love to see underdog win, 1 classy stuff,
redundancy
Mark Manson- One rule of life
1) Respect is about consent
2) Humanity is an end and not means

Getting past no.-william l. ury

1) Diplomacy- the art of letting someone else have your way.
2) Encourage the person to come up with your idea from within themselves, clear away
barriers from leading to your opinion,
3) Tell me more of your opinion
4) What are the persons ineterst- e.g to maintain budget, reputation for honesty, look good
for boss ?
5) When disagree, why u feel dis way ?, How do I get around my issue ask their advice
6) What standards when comparing options- e.g market rates, alternatives- get another job
to supplement, (batna- best alternative to negotiate agreement- walk away point),other side one
?
7) Acknowledge peoples competence, authority
8) In a confrontation agree with person,
9) Stonewalling in attacks- dey make u uncomfortable
10) Get past no. go to balcony and become 3​rd​ party.
11) Have 3 proposals in mind. Getting past no.
12) Test stonewalls deadlines by showing working with gusto,
13) Negotiiation – understand the rules – e.g. if they are testing u , tricks
14) U win when dey apply for joint problem sovling – build a bridge
15) Go to balcony, go their side, control your reaction, never their, engage in joint problem
solving
16) When u ask for raise, ask for more work, any savings realize- pay me bonus
17) Use power to educate not escalate (ask esdelle how much experience a cva should have)-
for every ounce power u use allow them 1 ounce conciliation to allow them choice

High Output Mangement- Andrew Grove

1 ) Insincere delegation
2) Delegator and delegatee must share common principles of how tasks to be executed
4) Delegator must follow through
3) Giving someone a pencil but yu holding on to it
5) LA = L1A1+ L2A2 , where L = leverage, A= activity Leads to Increase in output of
organisation.for every activity of manager leads to increase of output of organisation.
6) Strategy vs tactics- strategy is long term goal, tactics is set of steps to strategy e. G win all
games- tactics is right team, train players, right team, work on scoring, dribbling, passing, better
defending
In a dept- before moving to a next jobs, delegate to next dept, ,make request for staff, do it right
the first time, eliminate the unnecessary.
7) Planning is the work of a manager-plann for now and future and plan should close gaps
8) Planing is work done now to solve future problems
9) stretgy at one level is d tactical concern at a next level

Drew Houston- Tim Ferris-

(Successful screenplay- create a charac, put him stress and he comes out other side,
Life is fun-not perfection, enneagram)

Tim Herrera-mytimes
When asking for help make sure that the helper has time and resources to help
Justn bariso-learn to apologise to be happy

Leah foster- quartz- motivation is giving advice on motivation

Claude Shannon- universal way to solve problems- one idea generate 2, creative and critical, ,
worst way to solve this.

Charlie Mungal- Poor Charlies Almanac

1) No need to take full budgeted dollars from Client
2) Menatl models- Engineering is redundancy, maths is Compo und effect
3) 2 mistakes- omission, sucking a thumb, buy things with eyedropper- dat worth buying
4) Problem solving- invert prob and see all ways solution can go wrong and avoid them
5) Better not to do something stupid dan be intellect