“We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.” KnowsWorldKnow HowFailingTrumpSucceedSkillsConnectionsAccessRelyStatic Author:Charles Jennings
“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingChildrenFailingMovementProtectSkillsOur ChildrenFeel GoodPersistenceAnxious Author:Martin Seligman
“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.” PeopleKnowsSeemsSocialEffortFailingHonestSkillsUnusualRationalitySocial Skills Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney.” PeopleCountryMillionsFailingSkillsVotingGraduatesConsideringLackingAttackingRomneyEducation System Author:Bill Maher
“Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingPersonsMightJobsGuyActorsEasyFailingSkillsCraftsEditorsAlchemy Author:Joss Whedon
“Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.” MenGamesRaceFailingSkillsBaseballHeroicInchesSpiritedReflexes Book:Tuned to Baseball Source: Tuned to Baseball
“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.” KnowsMeanTwoFoundWalksResponsibilityKnownForeverFailingSkillsToughSafetyMissionsFlightCompromiseGrantedAviationThis DayCompetentNever Take Anything For Granted Author:Gene Kranz
“Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice” PeopleGivingArtImportantMatterResultsSituationFailingAdviceSkillsSpeechBlindAngryImpactShipsManageUncomfortableMetricsUncomfortable SituationsUnsolicited Advice Author:Seth Godin
“The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.” NeedsIdeasMovingNextAbilityFailingAdventureSkillsSellsEntrepreneurPersistentNext Adventure Author:James Altucher
“It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.” PeopleIfsTryingHardStoriesMightHappensAbleCompanyFailingProductsSkillsRationalConvinceGood StoryInnovators Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.” IfsWantPlayProblemBigsCompanyRolesFailingCenturySkillsComplexesValuableSoftwareFoundersFluency Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Over the years, there's been case after case when there were very narrow decisions that had to be made about whether to launch nuclear weapons in serious cases. What is this guy [Donald Trump] going to do if his vaunted negotiating skills fail, if somebody doesn't do what he says? Is he going to say, "Okay we'll nuke them? We're done?"” IfsYearsMadeDoneGuyDecisionCasesFailingSeriousTrumpSkillsWeaponsOkayNuclearNuclear WeaponsThis GuyNegotiatingNukes Author:Noam Chomsky
“It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?” PeopleWayShouldKindDoeDifferentSeemsSufferingProcessBornAbilityTeachStudyFailingStudentsMaterialsSkillsDisabilityLackingShrinksUnfamiliarPsychiatricGood StudentsConsultationLearning Disability Author:John Irving
“and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.” IfsEnoughDiesAsksSpeakStrongSleepForgetFailingSkillsFairsDecidedMercyMiracleLuckCarefulUselessBoxingMeant To BeBe CarefulStrong EnoughLiedCan't SleepLove AgainBoxing MatchesWords You SpeakLuck And Skill Author:Charles Bukowski