The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz The book is an experience-based wisdom for CEOs tackling brutal business crises, urging leaders to embrace “the Struggle,” adapt wartime tactics, prioritize people and culture, and persist without shortcuts or formulas. There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all. The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when miss the goal. The hard thing isn’t hiring talented people. The hard thing is when those ‘great people’ develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. Turn your shit in. Leaders must enforce accountability consistently and without exceptions. If you let people miss deadlines, dodge responsibilities, or deliver half-finished work, you silently teach the organization that standards don’t matter. High perfor...
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Breaking the habit of being yourself
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Breaking the habit of being Yourself - Dr. Joe Dispenza The science of us: The Quantum and us. An atom is 99.99999 percent energy and 0.00001percent physical substance. Dr. Joe emphasizes the importance of our energy and environment that is co-related with it. The quantum physics states that we actually place your energy where we direct our attention and that’s how we affect the outer world. At subatomic level energy responds to our mindful attention and becomes matter. So, the way we observe things decides the consequences? Weird Science: Are Prayers meaningful? Do Prayers have any impact? In July 2000, Israeli Dr. Leonard Leibovici set out to see whether prayer can have an effect on the condition of 3,393 hospital patients. He conducted a double-blind, randomized controlled study, divided into a control group and an “intercession” group. The hospital patients selected were ones who had suffered “sepsis” (an infection) while hospitalized. He randomly se...