Rules, Guides and Heuristics

Mine

1. Exercise
2. Take a nap
3. Eat something healthy and drink water every two hours you’re awake
4. Good sooner is better than perfect later – the first does not preclude the second
5. Big or persistent problems should be broken into smaller problems
6. Any thing you want to remember should be written down
7. To learn a thing – do it. To master a thing – do it for many years
8. You have no will-power. Bribe, incentivize and trick yourself
9. Take your hobbies seriously
10. Balance is more important than any individual success or failure

Gaining Trust

From con-man Victor Lustig

1. Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con-man his coups).
2. Never look bored.
3. Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.
4. Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones.
5. Hint at sex talk, but don’t follow it up unless the other fellow shows a strong interest.
6. Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown.
7. Never pry into a person’s personal circumstances (they’ll tell you all eventually).
8. Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious.
9. Never be untidy.
10. Never get drunk.

Motivation

From Dan Pink

• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

Expertise

According to Malcom Gladwell in "Tipping Point" it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in almost anything.