Learning

How To Use a Coach Effectively

"I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches." -- Harvey Penick

What you get from coaching is largely up to you. Whether it's a teacher, a mentor, a sports coach, or a coach at work, making the most of a coach is a skill that you get better at with practice. If you can master your ability to leverage the coaches in your life, you can accelerate your success, drop bad habits like a hot potato, grow new skills and abilities, and make the most of what you've got.

The Best Sites for Inspiration and Insights

"Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can." -- Danny Kaye

The Web is a fountain of knowledge, especially if you know where to drink from. This post is a quick tour of some of the main sites I use that make me think.

How To Build Your Personal Library of Success

I collect success. From stories of heroes to gems of insight, I gather and organize principles, patterns, and practices for success. It’s like a living playbook for life with short-cuts, success patterns, and proven practices. It supplies me with insight and action that I can use for just about every situation. Whether it’s motivation or strategies or tactics, it’s my unfair advantage and how I get the edge in life. It’s truly how I “stand on the shoulders of giants.”

10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information

“The problem of information overload, therefore, may not be the quantity of it but our inability to know what to do with it.” - Danniel Tammet

One of the most important skills I mastered early on at Microsoft, is information management. My ability to organize information directly impacts my success. For me, information management is the key to daily productivity from researching to learning faster to keeping my email inbox empty.

3 Ways to Know Something

How do we “know” something? … I think you’ll like this as a simple model to help answer the question – how do you know something to be true? There are 3 main ways:
1. Experiential (empirical)
2. Cognitive (Rational)
3. Constructed (Creational)