PROBLEM-SOLVING
One type of person approaches a situation with the mindset of, “How can I make this work?” Another type seems to approach each circumstance with the mindset of, “What are all the reasons this wouldn’t work?”
Both people will be forced to deal with reality, but the first person will only have to solve problems that actually occur while the second person will often avoid taking action entirely because of the potential problems they have dreamt up before starting.
There will always be reasons to not do something. Be a problem solver, not a problem adder.” James Clear
HIRING
“The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you’ve never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It’s a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.” Michael Lewis
“There’s a thing that we all know called opportunity cost– the time you spend looking for someone is time I could be out there working for you.” Saul Goodman
MOTIVATION
“Be great in small ways.
Writing 100 words today doesn’t seem worthwhile when you see people publishing bestsellers.
Exercising for 10 minutes doesn’t seem valuable when you see world records posted on Instagram.
But winning the next 10 minutes is its own form of greatness.
People are so busy wishing for more time and better resources that they fail to make the most of the time and resources they have. Be great in small ways and you may be surprised by what you’ve achieved within a year or two.” James Clear
“There is no substitute for hard work”. Thomas Edison
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” Doug Larson
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