The safest way to get what you want is to try and deserve what you want
Acquire new wisdom daily
Study history
Learn the big ideas in your domain and other disciplines
Live below your means
Appeal to interest, not to reason
Avoid working under people who you don’t admire or want to be like
Have a checklist routine -If there’s a process or procedure you perform often, have a checklist of each step to avoid errors
There are 2 types of knowledge:
If you want to become successful in a specific domain, you must have an intense interest in that area
Have a lot of assiduity
View every mischance as an opportunity to behave well and learn something
Live a life in which your heroes would be pleased with your actions
Go through life anticipating trouble and be ready to perform adequately when it arrives
Be a person people can trust
Inversion: Reverse the idea or task to get a new perspective on it
Iron prescription: Avoid extreme ideologies and don’t be entitled to have an opinion on a subject unless you can state the arguments against your position better than the people do who are supporting it
Avoid self-serving bias: You should not believe that you are entitled to do whatever you want to do
Avoid self-pity: Self-pit is disastrous behavior and should be avoided
Avoid perverse incentives system: Structure your incentives incredibly carefully or you will get undesired outcomes
Avoid perverse associations: Don’t work for people you don’t admire