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The Four A’s of Success, Own Your Losses, The Power of Intrigue
The Four A’s of Success, Own Your Losses, The Power of Intrigue
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive.
Happy reading - See you on Wednesday!
Cheers,
The Smarter Brain Team
Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins
3 Ideas For Better Habits
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Own Your Losses & Learn Your Lessons
Urban traveler and author Ian Tuhovsky on taking accountability for our actions to win in life.
"A loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on."
Ask, Admit, Act, Achieve
Chief Executive Officer of Disney, Robert Iger, on what's needed to grow, learn, and succeed.
“Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can.”
Source: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
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Follow Your Curiosity
Leading thinker on creativity Ozan Varol, on making the most of uncertainty by keeping curious.
“Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins.”
Source: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Productivity Tools and Resources
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Centralize Your Calendar, Double Your Productivity
Routine is an advanced calendar app to bring out the most productive you.
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Communication Made Simple and Effortless
Loom allows you to cut down meetings by 29% by allowing you to record quick videos to update your team.
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: That one in ten Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed. (Source)
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Have a productive week ahead,
The Smarter Brain Team
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Bite-sized ideas for better habits.
The Smarter Brain is a newsletter that helps you cut through the noise on the web and save valuable time, so you can can focus on getting things done. Delivered twice a week, you’ll get bite-sized ideas and recommended tools to build better habits, improve your productivity and get smarter in less than 3 minutes.
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