I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. Thuli Madonsela1 - Shane Parrish

The best are always learning.

Read like crazy.
Think alone.
Keep a journal.
Write stuff down the moment you see it.
Review regularly.
Memorize the big ideas to fluency.
Attack your best ideas.
And never get high on your own supply.

You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.

When you see someone doing something that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself what the world would have to look like to you for those actions to make sense.

in using maps, abstractions, and models, we must always be wise to their limitations. They are, by definition, reductions of something far more complex.