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Working a lot with very successful people over last 5 years I've noticed only 1 big diff in how they operate, not 7, 10 or 12 "secrets"...
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...faced with a challenge, they fight by default, quit by exception. Not the other way around.And choosing to fight is not a calculated move
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...my theory is they've unconsciously internalized crippling cost of letting quitting become a habit, so every quit has to be exceptional
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...this leads to a big asymmetry: 'stay and fight' calls require 1/100th the justification of 'walk away' calls in their mental accounting
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...I have the opposite bias: quit by default, fight by exception. Commonsense "pick your battles" orientation over odd "Pick your retreats"
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...this can only get you to "learn how not to fail" which is enough for me. I'm not ambitious. But for success, use opposite config file
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...note: quit !=exit in exit/voice sense.A quit is an easy way out, and is almost always available. An exit is a hard way out, which is rare
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