A list of reflective questions to ask yourself Antifragile Availability bias Black Swan Bottlenecks Cause and Effect Compound Interest Confirmation Bias Create momentum to make progress Emergence Environment Design Every field has some core principles and ideas upon which all other derive Evolution Excellence is mundane Fail Fast So You Can Fix Early Feedback Loop First instinct fallacy Force multiplier Free Rider Problem Friction Gall's Law Hanlon's Razor Haskell Hickam's Dictum Hindsight Bias How to Acquire Mental Models Increase your leverage to become more productive Innovation Multiplier Inversion Leverage Local maxima vs. Global maxima Mario Marketing Mental Models Metcalfe's Law Minimize time getting into position, just go Mise en place Network Effects Not making time for yourself first leads to burnout Occam's Razor Opportunity Cost Overton windows Perverse Incentive Positive Sum Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy PP 1 - Introduction to Haskell PP 2 - Types and classes PP 3 - Functions and lists PP 4 - Recursion PP 5 - Higher-order functions PP 6 - Declaring types and type classes Premature Optimization Reciprocity Regression to the Mean Sharpen the saw Sherlock Holmes and Mental Models Signal vs. Noise Skin in the Game Stop being ungrateful of having so little life, and be grateful that you were given any at all Survivorship bias Take on the role before you can assume the role The Barbell Strategy The Diderot Effect The Dunning-Kruger Effect The Feature-Positive Effect The Ivy Lee Method for daily planning The Law of Inertia The Lindy Effect The Map Is Not The Territory The Mere-Exposure Effect The Pareto Principle The Pauli Exclusion Principle The Pratfall Effect The QEC method The Red Queen Effect Theory of Constraints To catch a second wind, you have to stay in the game long enough Using notes to advance in life Via Negativa Wittgenstein's Ruler Working on vs. working in Your second brain should actively grow and compound Zero Sum

Take on the role before you can assume the role

I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
— Thomas J. Watson

To be great, you have to act great. You don’t wait until you are great to start acting like it.
Take on the role well before it’s yours.

You take on your desired role way before it’s actually yours. That’s how you get to deserve it.

This is very similar to changing identities to reinforce or implement habits. To run reguarly, you must become a runner—and identities bring values, ideas, and habits. (Habits shape your identity)

I heard Mike Tyson speaking of something similar, I think on the Lewis Howes podcast. He said: “To be the champ, you have to be the champ.”¹

You don’t become the best without deserving it. And the best way to deserve it is to act as if you already have/are it—to assume the role before it’s yours. I like Charlie Munger‘s quip about how you could find a good wife: ”Deserve one.”²

==I think Jordan B. Peterson says something about this in this interview, but I’m not certain. Added video to read later queue.==

Outgoing links: Thomas J. Watson, Habits shape your identity, Lewis Howes, Charlie Munger, Jordan B. Peterson, { Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Take on the role before you can assume the role

I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
— Thomas J. Watson

To be great, you have to act great. You don’t wait until you are great to start acting like it.
Take on the role well before it’s yours.

You take on your desired role way before it’s actually yours. That’s how you get to deserve it.

This is very similar to changing identities to reinforce or implement habits. To run reguarly, you must become a runner—and identities bring values, ideas, and habits. (Habits shape your identity)

I heard Mike Tyson speaking of something similar, I think on the Lewis Howes podcast. He said: “To be the champ, you have to be the champ.”¹

==I think Jordan B. Peterson says something about this in this interview, but I’m not certain. Added video to read later queue.==

Outgoing links: Thomas J. Watson, Habits shape your identity, Lewis Howes, Charlie Munger, Jordan B. Peterson, { Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Take on the role before you can assume the role

Footnotes

Take on the role before you can assume the role

Footnotes