No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
Adam GrantRead
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
Interpretation
A great book should provoke thought and bring joy to the reader.
This quote by Adam Grant emphasizes the dual impact that literature can have on its audience. A truly great book not only challenges the readers intellectually, sparking deep thinking and contemplation, but also brings happiness and pleasure, ensuring an enjoyable reading experience. The blend of these two elements is what makes a book memorable and impactful.
In practice
During a book club, when discussing favorite reads.
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
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