Quotes About Decisions

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Breaking your rules to co-invest with well-known investors is usually a bad idea, but following your rules when others reject a startup can work out extremely well.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

If I believed this, how would it affect my decisions in the next week? Over the next 6 to 12 months?

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

First, you could define failing simply as having a losing outcome, like losing a hand. But one of the lessons poker teaches you is that this is an unproductive way to define failure because you can win a hand by making very poor decisions and lose a hand while making very good decisions.

5—You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into. #6—"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell #7—"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus

The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling The Science of Words by George A. Miller Retreat from Doomsday by John Mueller The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis Noël-Thomas and Mark Turner

Poker has taught me to disconnect failure from outcomes. Just because I lose doesn't mean I failed, and just because I won doesn't mean I succeeded—not when you define success and failure around making good decisions that will win in the long run.

Making effective decisions—and learning effectively—requires massive elimination and the removal of options.

5—You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into. #6—"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell #7—"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus Cato

Qué decisiones de las que has tomado te han convertido en la persona que eres?»

Top down (macro thinking) means I consider the big-picture issues before the small when making decisions, and these [big-picture] issues dominate my preferences. It does not mean I ignore the small issues, as they are necessary but not dominant.

Meetings should only be held to make decisions about a predefined situation, not to define the problem.

camiseta en Manhattan en la que ponía que las malas decisiones dan buenas historias.

Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Las opciones son infinitas, pero todos los caminos empiezan dando el mismo paso: cambiando lo que das por supuesto.

In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~