Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage investigator and has also written the book Never split the difference amongst others. He shares his notes on how to negotiate and his findings on what people are like. -a calm voice to be calm and calm the other person; low frequency -anger can pull out of sadness; […]
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Ramani Durvasula, otherwise known as Dr Ramani, us a US based psychology who specialized in narcissism. With the unfortunate growing trend of more personality disorders, those of the dark tetrad of manipulators, psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists, having a person in your life with one of these qualities can totally ruin you. I’ve written down my
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Don Valentine was the initial founder of the best VC firm in the whole world, Sequoia Capital. The mere fact that he did not put his own name in the name may be an indicator of some sort of character to begin with. Sequoia itself represents a redwood coniferous tree located through California, where all
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Tim Ferris is one of my personal favorite podcast hosts for his excellent listening skills, astute questions, and exceptional guests he is able to attract onto the show. He is also the author of the four-hour workweek, has started successful businesses, and has given out enough advice of his own that I have outlined here.
Research has shown that for startups involving multiple cofounders, 66% of the failed startups have confounder conflict cited as one of the contributing factors. Wow, imagine having a startup fail due to cofounders arguing. What a simple problem to solve it seems, and yet, more consideration must be taken before choosing one. In many ways,
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Esther Perel is a world-famous psychotherapist and is considered a relationship expert. So much so that her practice in New York charges $500/hour for sessions with her focus mainly on relationships, therapy. Oprah even listed her as a Supersoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders. Here are some of her thoughts on the changing
At least in public domains, John Gottman has been widely mentioned as one of the best to be giving advice on marriage. It’s been said he is able to predict divorce with 94% accuracy based on studying a couple’s behavior. He has founded the Gottman Institute, which is a research-based approach to relationships developed by
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Garry Tan has a YouTube channel through which I have learned a lot of small nuggets of wisdom over the years. He is best known as a venture capitalist and founding Initialized Capital. He is now the CEO of Y Combinator, and had previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. His big claim to fame in startup
Most of the people who claim to be relationship experts and gurus are some combination of idiots, arrogant, grifters, dunning Kruger effect in thinking reading one book makes them an expert, con artists, snake oil sales, saying random crap in selling the soul to make a quick buck. From everyone I’ve read on all thing’s
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In a world where being selfish is now the norm, due to being encouraged and actively promoted, it can seem as though it is the way to becoming successful. Sometimes that may be true, and many other times, it couldn’t be further from the truth. I once worked for a franchisee at Dairy Queen, a
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