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"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." - Dale Carnegie
- Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself.
- Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them.
- Let's try to figure out why they do what they do.
- That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
- "To know all is to forgive all."
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee
- If you want to improve your life then it’s tempting to want to add more.
- One problem with this may be that you don’t really have the time or energy to do more though.
- And so your efforts to improve become short-lived.
- Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety.
- Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do.
- And as the clutter in your outer world decreases the clutter in your inner world also has a tendency to decrease.
- This has the added benefit of making it easier to actually enjoy whatever you are doing even more while you are doing it.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. - Abraham Lincoln
Stop thinking about making a million dollars and start thinking about serving a million people. - Dharmesh Shah
Give honest and sincere appreciation. - Dale Carnegie
- Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment."
- William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
- He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated.
- He said the "craving" to be appreciated.
- Let's try to figure out the other person's good points.
- Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
Write down a list of your goals and dreams, because writing thoughts and ideas down is the first step to making them come to life.
- A list of your short and long-term goals can be a great motivator, as well as a trigger list to help generate new projects.
- I also like to have a list of areas of focus, the different roles that I play, each of which comes with a different set of tasks and goals.
If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. - Tony Gaskins
It's not daily increase but daily decrease - hack away the unessentials. - Bruce Lee
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
Sometimes you have to go back in order to go front. - Mistress America Movie
80% of the result comes from 20% of your time, work, or activities, so realize that 80% could be good enough for many tasks or goals by focusing on the essential 20% of your habits and activities.
- This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time.
- The 80/20 rule - also known as The Pareto Principle - basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.
- So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think.
- You can just drop - or vastly decrease the time you spend on - a whole bunch of things.
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80% of the results will often come from 20% of the causes, so focus on finding the vital few inputs or actions that will provide the most benefit or effect.
- The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").
- Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
- Management consultant Joseph M. Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control and improvement after reading the works of Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto, who wrote about the 80/20 connection while teaching at the University of Lausanne.
- In his first work, Cours d'économie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in the Kingdom of Italy was owned by 20% of the population.
Turn your problems into challenges or goals that you can overcome or accomplish in order to be happier and improve your life.
- Happy people will see problems as challenges, as opportunities to explore new ways of doing things, expressing their gratitude for them, understanding that underneath them all lay many opportunities that will allow them to expand and to grow.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain
Two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity...But that just might be me being stupid. - Albert Einstein
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Think and Grow Rich is a classic motivational book. Written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie, it was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression. In his introduction, Hill refers to the "Carnegie Secret", a conception which he reports is the foundation of all success and appears to be the premise of the book. Hill promises to indirectly describe this "secret" in every chapter, but never state it plainly, believing the use of the secret is only available to those who possess a "readiness" for it, a disposition Hill describes as essential to the concept itself.
Napoleon Hill talks about "The Secret" to Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill - YouTube
The solution or explanation with the fewest amount of steps or assumptions should often be preferred in order to simplify the solution down to its essential factor or factors.
- In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.
- It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae).
- Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently cited as "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", which translates as "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity", although Occam never used these exact words.
- Popularly, the principle is sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "The simplest explanation is usually the best one."
- This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should prefer the one that requires the fewest assumptions and that this is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses that make different predictions.