“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more.
Four surprising traits exhibited by the best leaders [Podcast]:
What gets a lot of press and the accolades is often the spectacular homerun. But what we find at the end of the day is that it’s really consistency that wins the day. In the proverbial tortoise and the hare, the tortoise does end up winning as it turns out when you look at the CEO data.
Behaviors Of Successful CEOs [Curt Nickisch, HBR IdeaCast]
The elements of “deliberate practice” [Article]:
Most of the time we’re practicing we’re really doing activities in our comfort zone. This doesn’t help us improve because we can already do these activities easily. On the other hand, operating in the panic zone leaves us paralyzed as the activities are too difficult and we don’t know where to start. The only way to make progress is to operate in the learning zone, which are those activities that are just out of reach.
What is Deliberate Practice? [Shane Parrish, Farnam Street]
A simple standard to live by [Video]:
Are Your Actions Making You Better? [Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic]
Andrew T. Daniel 