Self -Dev Guide

A compilation of a lot of books I read.

THE FOUNDATION
OF
MOTIVATION
The recipe for a fulfilling life.
01
SELF DEV
Learn and grow to achieve your
goals. 02
OPPORTUNITY

TACTICS
THE BIG 04 What is it and how can we spot
it.
What you can do to grow and
be more productive. 03 PICTURE KNOW YOUR
WORLD
05 What to do and how to do it.

TECHNICAL SKILL
DEV
06 Develop skills in demand for
the 21st century.
01
Foundations of motivation
We are evolved to chose our purpose.
 THREE COMPONENTS
AUTONOMY
Choose a discipline A healthy life.
These components will guide you to being highly
motivated.

MASTERY
A discipline you can
constantly improve
at.

Purpose
What you master
helps more people
than yourself.
 AUTONOMY
You must be free to choose. Once you choose, you have
to stick with your chosen discipline, make sure it is
something you can constantly improve at.
 Autonomy

Rewards and sanctions are short term performance incentives. In the long term, they destroy the inner
impetus.

1. Extrinsic motivators destroy intrinsic motivation.

2. There is an inner drive that leads to passion and dedication.
3. That passion and dedication leads to a feeling of meaningfulness.
4. Self determination from autonomy promotes intrinsic motivation.
 INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

Rewards and sanctions are short term performance incentives. In the long term, they destroy the inner
impetus. This is how you can grow it.

1. Pick something challenging. Pursue a goal with personal meaning. The goal should be possible but not
certain.
2. Pick something you are curious about.
3. It is something you can control. You can pursue your goal in control of yourself and environment.
4. Increases when you cooperate and compete.
5. With the social component, comes recognition. People enjoy having their deeds noticed by others.
 MASTERY
Mastery is about forever improving on what you chose
with diligent focused practice.
 MASTERY

The process of continual improvement.

1. Your goals in a new field should not be external motivators like money, achievement, affiliation or
power but to learn as much as possible.
2. You don’t need an inborn talent to become a master, just follow the steps of a master.
3. The best way to learn is to find a master and apprentice from them. Master’s are often eager to share
what they know.
4. Study the lives of past masters.
5. It is a journey, not a destination. Practice is a path.
6. Surround yourself with other masters and focus on the joy of practice.
7. Listen to your teacher, visualize with intent and confront your limits are the three pillars of mastery.
8. Move your body, set priorities and accept your limits. You need fule for the journey ahead. Take care
of your health!
9. New endeavours are shaped by ongoing learning, patient, diligent, focused practice and a rediscovery
of your own human potential
 PURPOSE
What you chose to master must help other people than
yourself.
 PURPOSE

To have a positive impact on those around you and those that you do not know.

1. By developing a set of moral ideas to live and work by. This should drive your choice and path of
mastery.
2. If you are driven by discovery you will take responsibility for your actions.
3. Lead by excellence and nurture the virtues that will lead you to the best job you can do.
4. Strive to create the greatest possible happiness for the largest number of people.
5. Use your vision to guide humanity into unknown territory.
6. Purpose lifts the moral of those around you and pushes humanity forward.
7. Doing good things for other people without expecting anything in return feels good.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. Drive - Daniel Pink

2. Self-Determination and Intrinsic Motivation in Human Behavior - Edward
Deci and Richard Ryan
3. Ikigai - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
4. Mastery - George Leonard
5. Mastery - Robert Greene
6. Purpose - Nikos Mourgobiannis
7. Purposeful - Jennifer Dulski
02
Self Development
How should we grow to seize the most opportunities?
 An overview

MINDSET GRIT WILLPOWER CREATIVITY

The belief that you an How you persevere through This is a muscle.
change and learn. challenges
 THE GENERAL TOOLS

You can learn anything you

put your mind to. Mindsets
are learned behaviours.

When you do what you love,

you will hit a rough patch.
MINDSET Sticking it through is a
choice. Grit is a muscle.

GRIT
 THE MINDSET

You can learn a growth oriented mindset by confronting your own ideas, bias’ and attitudes. Your mindset
is influenced from your childhood but it is ultimately your choice.

1. You make a choice to believe you can learn and change.

2. Your abilities and talents are not fixed in stone.
3. You are capable of growing and developing in any area of your interest.
4. Don’t seek approval. Seek to learn and grow.
5. Failure is to be embraced as an opportunity to learn.
6. Don’t avoid difficulties, seek them out. Those are opportunities for intense practice.
7. Anyone can adopt this mindset, it is a choice.
8. It is about strengthening your tenacity.
 GRIT

You will always hit a rough patch when you are doing something you love. Perseverance will get you
through, and it is also a muscle that can be strengthened.

1. When you decide to do something. Commit to it through thick and thin. Do not give up.
2. Seek out challenges above your skill level to improve your grit.
3. Set yourself a task, define it’s length and deadline. Plan what you have do do to stay on track.
4. Repeat and build it into a habit as a cornerstone of your identity.
 WILLPOWER

Willpower is the ability to override our limbic reward system.

1. It has a limited reserve. Doing things you don’t like and not doing things you do like takes energy
from the same source.
2. It is a biological instinct that protects us from harm in the long run.
3. It’s a response similar to “fight or flight”. It is “pause and plan”.
 WILLPOWER COMPONENTS

Willpower is a muscle. It can be strengthened by learning to concentrate on long term goals.

1. “I won’t” - Which habit is interfering with long terms goals such as health and happiness.
2. “I will” - The ability to do what you dislike in the present for long term gain.
3. “I want” - visualizing the future you want.
 STRENGTHENING WILLPOWER

Here are some strategies to grow willpower.

1. Mindful meditation increases awareness and helps avoid distractions. When you are distracted you are
more likely to fall into temptation.
2. Eat low glycemic foods, such as nuts, cereals, fruits, vegetables and grams,
3. You can keep a small temptation nearby so you can regularly refuse.it.
4. Don’t indulge in the present. Thinking that you are virtuous lowers self awareness and then we are less
likely to control ourselves.
5. Manage stress. Stress can trigger downward spirals. Feeling bad can trigger cravings and high
expectations.
6. Imagine your future self looking back on your present self.
7. Visible rewards makes us overestimate the benefits of instant gratification and underestimate the value
of exerting self-control. Distancing yourself from the temptation makes the temptation weaker.
8. Pushing aside temptations makes the craving stronger. Use the “I will” component to drown out the “I
wont”. Ex. I will eat healthy instead of “I won’t”.
9. Willpower is contagious. Practicing it socially increases the likelihood of success from 24% to 66%.
 CREATIVITY

Creativity is often thought as a single attribute. It is a combination of innate and learned behaviours.

1. Creative people embrace contradictions.

2. Creative people follow a plan imposed on them by their work.
3. Creative people are highly driven to master the things they are passionate about.
4. Most creative types go through a crystallizing experience that triggers a “rage to master”.
5. Creative types have a psychological need to engage with the subject of their passion.
6. 10-20% people born have highly sensitive nervous systems. This allows more information processing
but causes complications with information filtering.
7. Creative people welcome new experiences.
8. Learn, explore and engage with the unfamiliar, mentally and physically. This drives neuroplasticity.
9. Meditate and Daydream.
10. Think positive. Believe you can accomplish your task.
11. Do not fear. Use misfortune and failure as opportunities for growth.
 Behaviours that foster growth and
cooperation.
For when you have decided you will have a growth oriented mindset.

1. Your emotions are separate from your actions and your words, you can control yourself.
2. Understand you can always improve.
3. Seek to understand, then to be understood. Listening is the most valuable skill you will ever develop..
Get amazing at this. Develop your aural listening, then work on developing your empathic listening.
4. Be Proactive.
5. Establish a vision of the end goal before you begin.
6. Learn how to prioritize your tasks. We will talk more about this in tactics and strategies.
7. Think win-win. We are stronger together. Life is not a zero sum game.
8. Synergize. This is the only way to exceed a sum of total individual contributions. Teamwork!
9. Reinvest at least 10% of your time and energy into yourself.
10. Pay it forward, once you develop these skills help others to develop them.
11. Don’t be afraid to give up power.
 Handy Social Skills

Working with people is an essential for a happy life.

1. Smile.
2. Listen. This is being repeated from last slide because of how important it is. Don’t interrupt.
3. Take a genuine interest in other people’s interests and understand why they like what they do.
4. Never criticize publicly.
5. Be lavish and generous with your praise.
6. Admit your own mistakes openly. Don’t make excuses. Don’t blame. Take responsibility.
7. Call attention to other people’s mistakes indirectly.
8. Be kind, brave, honest and devoted to your beliefs.
9. Surround yourself with good people.
10. Life’s joys are in becoming a more loving, humble person, not material possessions or social status.
 Don’t be an asshole

Assholes are toxic.

1. Asshole, is the right term for all those people who bully or put down others.
2. Assholes are bad for business, their bullshit has an area of effect. It is worse when you get an asshole
in management.
3. An asshole free environment creates a great working environment. Less assholes means more equality
for the team.
4. Multiple studies show that giving people higher social status enables asshole behaviour.
5. There is an inverse correlation between being an asshole and being a good manager.
6. To reduce asshole behaviour foster cooperation rather than competition.
7. The human moral compass is highly malleable to the moral compass of the group. Avoid assholes or
become one.
8. Build emotional distance with any asshole you encounter.
9. Assholes need to go because negative actions have 5x times the effect over positive ones.
10. Champion a no asshole policy wherever you go. We as a species have to clean up their mess.
 RESOURCES

Absolute must reads.

1. The No Asshole Rule

2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
3. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
4. Grit - Angela Duckworth
5. Mindset - Carol Dweck
6. The Willpower Instinct - Kelly McGonigal
7. Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
8. Wired to Create - Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire
03
Tactics
The how of it all.
 THE BUILDING BLOCKS

KNOW THY SELF HABITS VISUALIZE

Learn your strengths and What are they and how do Pictureing where we want
weaknesses. they work? to be.

SELF-MANAGE TEAMWORK LEADERSHIP

Things you can do in order You can’t get their alone. Helping others feels good.
to fulfill your vision.
 KNOW THY SELF
In order to grow, you need to learn key insights into
yourself.
 Gaining insight

Tools for a useful insight into how you process information.

1. Myers Briggs personality test

2. OCEAN Personality test
3. Listen to others and be proactive on collecting feedback from peers.
 OUR BRAIN LIES!

You need to understand what is happening in your brain. Watch out for these! We are slaves to our
evolutionary roots.

1. We each have our subjective realities. We need to move towards an objective one.
2. Post hoc fallacy. AKA the placebo effect. When one event follows the other, our brains can draw a
correlation between the events.
3. The halo effect is when we appraise someone’s character after learning one thing about them.
4. We crave rational explanations while unaware the reasons behind our emotions.
5. Counter arguments and negative comments cause us to entrench into our views. It is called the
backfire effect.
6. Because we form groups, we tend to believe there is a homogeneity in each others behavior. We aren’t
all the same.
7. Our outfit choice influences who we are and what we do.
8. Fundamental Attribution error is when we attribute someone’s behaviour to their character rather than
their situation.
9. Realistic conflict theory tells us that conflict can arrise between groups with limited resources and
different goals.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. https://www.16personalites.com
2. OCEAN - https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/
3. You Are Now Less Dumb - Mark McRaney
 HABITS
Our thoughts, become words, our words become
actions, our actions become habits and our habits
become our destiny.
 Habits

Habits are simple cue-routine-reward loops that are stored in the basal ganglia, specifically the stratium.

1. A cue is an external stimulus that causes a spike in your brain.

2. A routine is the set of actions that the basal ganglia picks to get it’s reward.
3. A reward is the feeling of success form completing the activity. The accompanying spike in brain
activity reinforces the link between cue and routine.
 Changing Habits

Habits are incredibly resilient and can operate even if your brain is severely damaged.

1. Habit’s can’t be stopped. They can only be replaced.

2. To change, recognize the cue, replace the old routine with another and believe in the change.
3. Keystone habits are small habits that stack up to have a larger impact on your life.
4. It takes about 40 days to cement a habit.
5. Steady progress and patience will get you where you want to be.
6. Start by creating very small habits. Like making your bed first thing in the morning and build from
there.
7. Doing so builds momentum.
8. If you want to start a habit, attach it to current one you have. Starting to read while you exercise.
9. If you would like to start a habit, work to reduce the ‘activation time’. It should be under 20 seconds.
10. If you would like to end a habit, increase the ‘activation time’ of the activity.
 Habits aren’t just for people

Groups such as corporations, societies and cultures have habits as well.

1. Habits of organizations can be dangerous but can be changed in times of crisis.

2. Strong social group ties combined with peer pressure and new habits can start a movement.
 WE BEAR THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF
CHANGING OUR
HABITS
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. The Power of Habit- Charles Duhigg

2. The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy
VISUALIZE
Where do you want go go.
 Vision management

Break up your vision into different bottom up horizons. Visualize each one.

1. Current tasks to be completed.

2. Current projects. These generate level one tasks.
3. Accountabilities. Personal growth. Health. Finances. Socialization. Family. Planning. These generate
level 2 tasks.
4. Yearly goals. Where do you want to be in a year. These generate level 3 tasks.
5. Long term vision. WHere do you want to be in three to 5 years. Career aspirations. These generate
level 4 tasks.
6. Life’s purpose. Why do you exist? These generate level 5 tasks.
 SELF-
MANAGEMENT
Things you can do to make you more efficient and
productive to achieve the freedom to live.
 Goal management

Seven step method for achieving your goals.

1. Make a specific decision.

2. Write it down. If it is large break it down to sub-goals.
3. Set a realistic due date. Visualize the steps. If it is big, break it down into sub-goals.
4. List everything you can do to achieve the goal.
5. Prioritize your list with the most difficult first.
6. Start immediately.
7. Do something everyday. At the very least, sit down and look at it. This is the non-zero day concept.
8. Turn your progress into a habit.
 Exercise

This is absolutely most important thing you do when it comes to self management.

1. Exercise is the foundation of your habits and sleep.

2. Replenishes your brain’s cerbrospinal fluid. A liquid that nourishes your neurons.
3. Exercise causes micro tears, which triggers the release of testosterone and HGH. Which promote a
healthy, rejuvenating sleep.
4. Set goals and track progress.
 Sleep Management

A quick guide to sleep hygiene so you can perform at your highest capacity.

1. Sleep deprivation deprives the brain’s glucose content. Which fuels grey matter in the areas that deal
with problem solving and high level thinking.
2. Get sunlight between 6 am and 8 am. This triggers a wake up call to your brains, other organs and
glands.
3. Sleep in pitch black. Light at night suppresses melatonin by up to 50%. No screens 1 hour before bed.
4. Timing, go to bed within 30 minutes every night. This regulates our internal bio-clock. No work in the
bedroom.
5. Get up early, we are evolved to be active during the day.
6. 10pm and 2pm is when our peak production from melatonin and other hormones peak.
7. Caffeine has a half life of 8 hours. You need to flush it before you can rest.
8. Alcohol prevents entering REM, the stage responsible for memory processing.
9. Magnesium is responsible for 300 biochemical reactions for your body and calms the nervous system,
balances blood sugar levels, optimizes blood pressure and relaxes muscles. Meditate regularly.
10. Make where you sleep a sanctuary of peace. English Ivy is the best air filtering plant. “Mother in
Law’s tongue” converts Co2 to oxygen at night.
 Nutrition Management

This drives sleep, energy level, immune system and longevity. This is the hardest subject to get clarity on
because of the topics saturation in the infosphere.

1. Understand your blood sugar and how the body stores fat to help make better choices. Low Glycemic
foods regulate blood sugar better.
2. Circadian rhythm primes your body to eat at certain times. We are primed to eat at certain parts of the
day and don’t really like to be stuffed before bed.
3. We become more resistant to insulin as the day goes on.
4. You don’t have to eat breakfast food for breakfast. Healthier dinner meals are just fine.
5. If you would like to make a change, start small and slowly like any other habit.
6. Replace un-healthy foods with healthy foods.
7. Soy and broccoli has genistein which is proven to boost cancer -fighting defense system which stops
blood flow to tumors.
8. Cocoa helps regenerate stem cells. Cocoa is high in flavanols.
9. Fruit, sauerkraut and cheese maintain healthy gut bacteria.
10. Mushrooms and olive oil help your immune system fight everything from colds to cancer.
11. Do your research!
 Fear management

Face your fears immediately and put it in a disaster report. This is a basic risk assessment.

1. Describe your fear clearly.

2. Determine your worst case scenario. Write it down.
3. Find a solution to the worst case scenario.
4. Do everything in your power to avoid the worst-case scenario.
 Failure management

Failure is inevitable and is a critical part of moving forward.

1. Failure opens up new opportunities.

2. Learning from failure is instrumental to success.
3. Overcoming the fear of failure and learning to take new risks brings long-term success
4. Failure is a discovery of a competence and knowledge boundary.
 Priority Management

Use the ABCDE method to handle procrastination.

A. Must do tasks. These have major consequences if not complete.

B. Should do tasks. Mild consequences if uncomplete.
C. Nice to do tasks with no consequences.
D. Tasks that can be delegated.
E. Tasks that are getting in the way and need to be eliminated.
 Time Management

How are we going to use our time for our priorities?

1. Your brain is terrible at remembering things. Short term memory holds 5-6 things.
2. Make sure you have the right tools to capture all tasks, ideas and reminders.
3. Empty your collection tools weekly and clarify.
4. Organize, everything should have its place.
5. If something takes more than one action it is a project and it goes on the project list.
6. If something can be delegated, it goes on the waiting for list.
7. Calendar is meant for time and date specific actions.
8. Next action lists are where all your todos end up. Split these lists based on contexts. These should be
as specific as possible.
 Time Engagement

Choose what to do for the current situation and priorities.

1. What can you do in the current context?

2. Do you have enough time?
3. What is your energy level for the task at hand?
4. What task is the highest priority?
5. Do you have enough time?
6. What is your energy level for the task at hand?
7. What task is the highest priority?
 Environment Management

We are products of our environment.

1. Your brain can only focus on a limited amount of stimuli at a time.

2. Set a designated place for every single object.
3. Organize your ideas outside of your head to conserve mental energy.
4. Set aside time to refuel and organize your environment for long term time savings.
5. Your working environment must be clear of any distractions.
6. You must have your input and output collections tools for managing information.
7. Your seperate working environments should match. Your environment at work should match your
home environment office.
 Financial Management

This is probably the most important slide.

1. Define what you value, financial independence or travel for example.

2. Guess what your goals are and fine tune them as you go. They aren’t set in stone.
3. Assess your current financial situation by making a balance sheet of assets and liabilities.
4. Make a budget to track spending.
5. Save as much as you can and view paying off debts as a form of investment.
6. Diversify your investments.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. The One Page Financial Plan

2. OCEAN - https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/
3. You Are Now Less Dumb - Mark McRaney
4. Getting things done - David Allen
5. Eat that frog - Brian Tracy
6. No Excuses - Brian Tracy
7. The Upward Spiral - Alex Korb
8. Sleep Smarter - Shawn Stevenson
9. Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon - Rahul Jandial
TEAMWORK
The future is collaborative.
 A FUNCTIONAL TEAM

Teams help you push past the sum of individual parts.

1. Teamwork is the ultimate competitive advantage.

2. Teamwork is based on trust. Trust is fostered when team members are open with weaknesses and
mistakes.
3. With trust, they engage in constructive conflicts to make better decisions.
4. Commitment to a decision even if there is no consensus on the certainty of its viability. Win together
fail together.
5. Performance needs to be transparent to promote peer to peer accountability.
6. Focus on collective results rather than individual goals.
7. Spend more time together.
8. If you want your team to be like this, lead by example.
 TEAM ENGAGEMENT

Teams help you push past the sum of individual parts.

1. A cost of a miserable teammate is high.

2. The roots of misery are:
a. A members talents underappreciated and misunderstood.
b. A member unaware of their positive impact.
c. A member can not measure their achievements.

3. A team members work can always be made more meaningful.

4. Work to bring joy and meaning to your team members work.
 THE SUPER-COOPERATOR

A team with star talent that can’t work together is dysfunctional.

1. Prioritize overall results over individual results.

2. Practice accountability
3. Commit to collective decisions.
4. Do not fear conflict.
5. Trust.
6. Self-reflect.
7. Practice three virtues
a. A hunger to go above and beyond.
b. Emotional intelligence to interact positively with a group.
c. The humility to subsume the ego for the greater good.
 TEAMWORK CONT

1. Hierarchical structures prevent honest employee feedback, especially if directed at superiors.

2. Fear of failure decreases risk tolerance.
3. Leaders need to acknowledge their own shortcomings and listen to the views of their staff.
4. Teams work better if they feel like they are contributing to the company’s drive for excellence.
5. People are more important than ideas because ideas come from people.
6. Managers need to empower their staff to make decisions.
7. Managers job isn’t to avoid risk and failure but to enable the company to get back on track.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. The Power of Habit- Charles Duhigg

2. The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy
3. Creativity inc - Ed Catmul
4. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick M. Lencioni
5. The Ideal Team Player - Patrick M. Lencioni
 LEADERSHIP
A great leader maintains the culture of a great team.
 THE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT

1. Every decision should be in line with the following three questions.

a. What can we be the best in the world at?
b. What are we passionate about?
c. What is the key economic indicator we should focus on?
 LEVEL 5 LEADERS

1. Leaders drive the jump from mediocrity to greatness.

2. They are excellent individuals, team members, managers and leaders.
3. They have a single-minded ambition for the company.
4. They remain humble.
5. Frantically driven towards results.
6. They want their company performing even after they leave.
 ACHIEVING GREATNESS

Greatness is defined by exceeding the S&P 500 growth by X amount over a number of years.

1. The right people in the right place is the foundation for greatness.
2. Getting the right people in to the company is as important as getting the wrong people out of it.
3. Embrace the stockdale paradox. Confront the facts while retaining the faith of success.
4. Brutal facts must be aired without hesitation.
5. A culture of rigorous self-discipline is needed to adhere to the company’s hedgehog concept.
 MAINTAINING GREATNESS

Greatness is defined by exceeding the S&P 500 growth by X amount over a number of years.

1. Visionary companies are able to maintain success by staying true to their core ideologies while
relentlessly pursuing progress.
2. A company’s core ideologies must go beyond profit as a purpose. It must have other reasons for
existing.
3. Progress must be stimulated by bold goals with grassroots mechanisms to get them into place.
4. Visionary companies have a cult like atmosphere, new recruits either thrive or leave.
5. Stimulate evolutionary progress by encouraging experimentation.
6. They don’t talk, take concrete actions to achieve their goals.
 ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH

For a company to succeed it is not enough for it to have smart leaders. They must clearly communicate the
organization’s priorities

1. The sophistication bias blinds people to the simplicity of organizational health.

a. High level of discipline
b. Courage
c. Common sense
2. The adrenaline bias has people ignoring those tasks for more exhilarating tasks.
3. The quantification bias is from being able to measure the benefits from high morale and improved
relationships between departments.
4. Build real teams. A real team understands the collective responsibility and share sacrifices.
5. Leaders must be trusted. This is built from openly sharing mistakes.
6. Leadership teams should be 3-12 people.
7. Conflict is embraced rather than feared.
8. Commitment and accountability to the teams shared goals.
9. The leadership team must share a common goal.
10. Leadership team can answer why the organization exists.
 THE HUMAN SYSTEM

The life cycle of an employee in respect to an employee.

1. Orientation is important to establish a productive path for the new employee.

2. During performance management, employees should be given clear direction and regular information
on how they are doing.
3. Incentives and recognition should be used to remind them of what is best for the organization.
4. If an employee fits the organization’s values but isn’t performing well, the company should first look
how the employee is being managed then give the employee another change to succeed.
 MEETINGS

The single best indicator of organizational health.

1. Leadership team meetings are where cohesion, clarity and communication of purpose happens.
2. Decisions around strategies and tactics are considered made and reviewed.
3. Leadership meetings should occur regularly and should allow time for discussing each important issue.
4. Meetings need to be focused to avoid meeting overload.
5. Daily - for team information exchange.
6. Weekly - The most valuable, these are for team tactics and help build a cohesive team and a healthy
org. Weekly’s shouldnt have an agenda.
7. Monthy - Critical issues that have a long term impact on the team. Like product deficiency or major
competitive threat.
8. Quarterly - For refreshing perspectives on the business.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. Good to Great- Jim Collins

2. Built to Last - Jim Collins
3. The advantage - Patrick Leoninoi
 Opportunity
04
The truth about opportunity and the role of compound advantage.
 The Myth

Natural Talent can only take you so far. Societies and how you are raised have the largest impact.

1. Compound advantages from when where and to whom you are born play the biggest factor in a
person’s success.
2. Innate abilities can only get you so far, in order to achieve world class mastery you must diligently
practice.
3. Being born in a geographic location determines what facilities you get access to like libraries,
education and markets.
4. When you are born wealthy you simply have more advantages than the poor. Such as tutors and
equipment.
5. Success is the result of a series of advantages that compound ontop of eachother. The biggest ones are
to who you are born, where you are born and when you are born.
 The uneven playing field.

Compound Advantage is the culmination of skills built upon each other and learned at an early age which
leads to other skills. More advantages provide more access to opportunities.

1. To whom someone is born. Parents teach how to interpret work and social situations. This is not
innate
2. Where someone is born and raised plays a huge role. Facilities and markets are radically different
based on geography.
3. When you are born plays a huge role. Someone that comes of age during an industrial revolution as far
more opportunities of someone than who comes of age in an economic depression.
 COMPOUND ADVANTAGE
EXAMPLES
These play a very large role in success and are often provided to you by your parents.

1. What income level your parents have when you are born.
2. Is success expected from you?
3. Was work ethic taught to you?
4. Did you have access to better tools and knowledge?
5. Were you taught to push past your comfort zone?
6. Were you taught healthy daily habits?
7. Were you taught financial skills?
8. Were you taught how to establish a routine?
9. Were you taught how to embrace obstacles and view them as a challenge?
10. These are some of the things that parents give their children and these things stack up on top of each
other. It is never too late to learn.
 Geography

Due to someone’s parents, you gain access to facilities and opportunities..

1. School district was one of the first in the country to offer 3d animation a growing field at the time.
2. Affordable post secondary education. .
3. First world country provides access to better job markets and more opportunities.
 When someone was born.

Timing is key.

1. Graduating pre vs post 2008 financial crisis. I can’t stress this enough how this is such a dividing line
in prosperity.
2. Establishing a career at the beginning of a booming economy.
3. Financially established before a revolutionary technology came online.
4. Invested in said technology.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy

2. Outsiders - Malcom Gladwell
KNOW YOUR WORLD
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Being informed to make the right decisions and seek opportunities
 The Third and Fourth Industrial
Revolutions
COMS
Revolution in
communications
infrastructure.
ENERGY

DATA Revolution in
renewable energy.
Two revolutions in
data processing and
storage.

MEDICIN
LOGISTIC E
Revolution in
S genetic engineering.
Revolution in
transport and
manufactureing.
 What is an industrial revolution?

When major technologies revolutionize at the same time causing a convergence.

1. Communications, we now have internet.

2. Energy, we now have renewables.
3. Logistics and transport, we now have self driving vehicles.
4. Made possible from an information technology revolution with computing and technologies.
5. When revolutions in communication, energy and logistics converge it begins an industrial revolution.
6. Society reorganizes during an industrial revolution.
 The Information Revolution

Computing was a big deal.

1. The cost of computation gets halved every 18 months.

2. It started in 1956 with the first integrated computer chip.
3. The 32nd doubling happened in about 2006.
4. We are now seeing the science fiction of our childhoods become reality.
 How are things changing?

Vertically integrated industrial sectors are flattening out into access networks due to the internet and
computing advances.

1. The music industry was one of the first casualties of the information revolution. What was once
controlled by Sony and Time warner, was devastated by Napster and is now controlled by Spotify and
Apple.
2. Kodak was replaced by the smartphone and Facebook.
3. Advertising is now dominated by Facebook and Google.
4. Taxis, LOL
5. Shipping and logistics will be replaced with a network of self driving vehicles.
6. This will continue into the financial and regulator sectors with Bitcoin, a revolution in data transfer
and record keeping.
7. It is underway in Germany with a distributed renewable energy grid.
8. Remote work is more prevalent with high speed Internet access spreading across the globe..
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. The Third Industrial Revolution - Jeremy Rifkin

2. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
3. The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
4. Life 4.0
Technical Skill Dev
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In demand skills for the 21st century.
 Critical Skills for the 21st century

The skills that you will need

1. If your job involves following instructions, you are dispensable.

2. Love what you do, pour emotional labor into what you produce.
3. As literacy was key to ascending during the second industrial revolution, coding will be essential for
the third and fourth.
4. As basic algebra was essential for the second industrial revolution, linear algebra is the language of big
data that allows you to work with the networks that are underpinning the next generation economy.
5. Teamwork
6. Critical thinking.
7. Creativity.
8. Life long learning.
 RESOURCES

Some books on this topic

1. Hackerrank.com
2. Coursera
3. Udemy
4. Udacity
5. Opencourseware
 THANKS
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