- build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
— Tony Schwartz, HBR 8-24-10
Jim Rogers Keys to Success (Taken from the titles and sub headings of Each Chapter)
1. Do Not Let Others Do Your Thinking For you
2. Focus On What You Like
3. Good Habits For Life & Investing
4. Common Sense? Not So Common
5. Attention to details is what separates success from failure
6. Let the World Be A Part Of Your Perspective
7. Learn Philosophy & Learn To Think
8. Learn History
9. Learn Languages (Make sure Mandarin Is One Of Them)
10. Understand Your Weaknesses & Acknowledge Your Mistakes
11. Recognize Change & Embrace It
12. Look To The Future
13. “Lady Luck Smiles On Those Who Continue Their Efforts”
14. Remember That Nothing is Really New
15. Know when not to do anything
16. Pay attention to what everybody else neglects
17. If anybody laughs at your idea view it as a sign of potential success
Deliberate Practice – Geoff Colvin
1. It’s designed to improve performance. “The essence of deliberate practice is continually stretching an individual just beyond his or her current abilities. That may sound obvious, but most of us don’t do it in the activities we think of as practice.”
2. It’s repeated a lot. “High repetition is the most important difference between deliberate practice of a task and performing the task for real, when it counts.”
3. Feedback on results is continuously available. “You may think that your rehearsal of a job interview was flawless, but your opinion isn’t what counts.”
4. It’s highly demanding mentally. “Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it ‘deliberate,’ as distinct from the mindless playing of scales or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in.”
5. It’s hard. “Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands.”
6. It requires (good) goals. “The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but rather about the process of reaching the outcome.”
