Apple’s CEO Tim Cook on changing your mind:
My thinking always evolves. Steve taught me well: never to get married to your convictions of yesterday. To always, if presented with something new that says you were wrong, admit it and go forward instead of continuing to hunker down and say why you’re right.
Three quotes from Tara Ploughman:
“The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.”
“The path from good to evil goes through bogus.”
“Never offer what you’d hate someone for accepting.”
(HT to James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter for the last quote that lead me to discover the others.)
PS: Yes, I know who Tara Ploughman is.
There is a balance between depth and width in friendship.
Today, the term is still widely used. But most of us don’t naturally fall into friend pairs. Seeking them out, then, can lead to hurt—if we choose one friend over another, if the best-friend designation isn’t reciprocated, or if we don’t have a closest friend but feel that we should. For those who do have one, prioritizing them could mean turning away from other, potentially fruitful friendships. And relying on one person for all of your emotional needs creates a lot of pressure: No one is available to be a great friend 100 percent of the time.
Source (HT Farnam Street’s Brain Food.)
Seth Godin, in This is Marketing:
Here’s another difficult exercise, one that stretches the empathy muscle of a typical marketer: Those people who don’t buy from you, the ones who don’t take your calls, who sneer at your innovations, who happily buy from a competitor even if they know you exist . . . those people . . . Why are they right? Why are the people who don’t choose you correct in their decision to not choose you?
Rohan Rajiv, in A Learning a Day:
Enthusiasm flows from optimism. And optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.