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Artificial Intelligence Tools – Text ChatGPT by OpenAI: ($20/mo, free version available) This is the tool that kicked off the…

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7 Steps to Design the Life You Want:

1 – Prioritize Your Health
Take time to think deeply
Lift weights
Morning sun
8 hours sleep
No energy vampires
Express gratitude daily

2. Take Control of Your Future
Make good decision
Unfocused -> Run/Exercise
Uninspired -> Read
Upset      -> Breathe
Burned out ->  Seek nature
Tired -> Go for a walk

Craft a Compelling Vision
What are your 10 year goals?
What are your 3 year goals?
What are your 1 year goals?
What are your 90 day goals?
What are your goals this week?
What is your mission?
What is your purpose?
What is your vacation?
What is your passion?

Take Massive Action

Don’t be paralyzed by analysis paralysis. Focus on decision velocity.
No excuses
Do hard things
Embrace discomfort
When in doubt, execute
Take extreme ownership over life
Surround yourself with A-players

Choose Play & Adventure
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72” —Mark Twain

Choose nature
Choose road trips
Choose to be a kid
Choose wild adventures
Choose spontaneous nights

5 Interview Tips from a Manager at Amazon

STAR or CAAR

Context >
Approach 1 – Your Playbook
Approach 2 – Depth
Result

  1. Build a Story Book – Create a library of stories. Use CAAR format. Bias towards recent stories, but don’t shy away from older stories if they convey your skill and capabilities.
  2. Mistakes Level You Don’t use trivial examples – Mistakes indicate experience – breaking a build is a minor issue
  3. Audit Stories for Clarity – Ask for feedback. Practice. Don’t confuse the interviewer.
  4. Specificity Matters – Be specific about what you did. Numbers build trust. “Reduced wait times by 4 hours!”
  5. Don’t use we statements – Use I not we

Thoughts on Leading Teams

Leadership is about setting priorities and then exemplifying the behaviors that you want to see in other people.

Make the charitable assumption

49% technical skill and 51% emotional skill

Hire for these traits:

  • Optimistic warmth (genuine kindness, thoughtfulness, and a sense that the glass is always at least half full)

  • Intellectual Curiosity  (not just “smarts” but rather an insatiable curiosity to learn for the sake of learning)

  • Work ethic (a natural tendency to do something as well as it can possibly be done)

  • Empathy (an awareness of, care for, and connection to how others feel and how your actions make others feel)

  • Self-awareness and integrity (an understanding of what makes you tick and a natural inclination to be accountable for doing the right thing with honesty and superb judgment)

Communicating has as much to do with context as it does content. That’s called setting the table. Understanding who needs to know what, when people need to know it, and why, and then presenting that information in an entirely comprehensible way is a sine qua non of great leadership. Clear, timely communication is the key to applying constant, gentle pressure.

Great storytelling connects employees to their work. It involves using concrete examples that reframe a moment by personifying human consequences. People’s feelings about their work are only partly about the work itself. They are equally, if not more so, about how they frame their work. Do they see what they’re doing as a mindless ritual? Do they see it as empty compliance? Or do they see it as sacred duty? If you change the frame you change the feeling. And nothing changes frames faster than a story.