Join Life Lessons

A batch of the best highlights from what Shrishty's read, .

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Quiet

Susan Cain

Improvement requires a delicate balance. You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated. Behaviors need to remain novel in order for them to stay attractive and satisfying. Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.

Atomic Habits

James Clear

However, we face a very different kind of uncertainty now in 2023. Because that pressure and uncertainty are being felt further up the food chain, by the venture capitalist and the banks that finance our clients. VC investments have been trending downward throughout 2022 and have so far continued in 2023. And (I’m told by people who actually know this stuff!) what happens in the public market usually carries over to the private market after a few months. And the private market is where most independent consultants are feeling the pinch.

Being Independent, 4 Years On

theburningmonk

...catch up on these, and many more highlights