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By some mysterious mental mechanism, people fail to realize that the principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor—and the chief thing you can learn from, say, a life coach or inspirational speaker is how to become a life coach or inspirational speaker. So remember that the heroes of history were not classicists and library rats, those people who live vicariously in their texts. They were people of deeds and had to be endowed with the spirit of risk taking. To get into their psyches, you will need someone other than a career professor teaching stoicism.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Regarding knowing your strengths, Drucker says: [This] enables people to say to an opportunity, to an offer, to an assignment, “Yes, I’ll do that. But this is the way I should be doing it. This is the way it should be structured. This is the way my relationships should be. These are the kind of results you should expect from me, and in this time frame, because this is who I am.” Many people struggle with this. They aren’t sure what their strengths are. Drucker offers a helpful definition: “What are you good at that consistently produces desired results?”
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
The importance of understanding social and economic processes as having their own internal dynamics cannot be overstated, for it recognizes that there are dialectical logics of development at play within these relationships, that influential external processes abound, and that social and economic systems have their own life and are made up of the lives of individual humans (themselves the subject of their own unfolding internal processes).
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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