Quotes About Learning

Yo procuro aprender del pasado sin dejarme inspirar por él. La gran pregunta que me hago siempre es, "¿Qué querían hacer y por qué funcionó?".

When you're earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say 'yes' to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

Cuando oigo historias de éxito y fracaso busco las pequeñas cosas que marcaron una gran diferencia.

The older I get, the more time I spend—as a percentage of each day—on crafting better questions. In my experience, going from 1x to 10x, from 10x to 100x, and from 100x to (when Lady Luck really smiles) 1000x returns in various areas has been a product of better questions.

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

Me obligo a mí mismo a dejar de comparar lo que aprendo con el pasado. Si sólo te fijas en los patrones del pasado, no llegarás lejos.»

information without emotion isn't retained.

The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don't wait.

what if I asked 100+ brilliant people the very questions I want to answer for myself? Or somehow got them to guide me in the right direction?

no tienes paciencia para leer algo, no tengas la arrogancia de comentarlo.»

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Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.

Many of the one-liners teach volumes.

Rather, it's the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

I start watching the Food Network for 1–2 hours a night to decompress from my start-up. Half-asleep one evening, I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

Changing on the Job.

Creo que la gente no aprende mucho en realidad del fracaso.

On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.