5 Books that Changed Me: What I Learned

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin 

• There are no bad teams; only bad leaders

• Good leaders take responsibility for every decision made by those under their command. They accept feedback gracefully. They analyze risk, accommodate for it, and execute the plan. 

• No one succeeds alone.

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

• Tactical Empathy is a skill that is useful in every area of life.

• We don’t like surprises, creating consistency in communication will build rapport more than anything else. 

• Use “no” to get to “yes” 

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

• We are biologically wired to assume that a bad outcome = bad decision and that is not how life works. You can do everything correctly and still have a bad outcome: the element of luck plays into everything. 

• Volume Negates Luck. The more you do, the less luck is involved in the outcome, its statistics. 

100M Dollar Offers by Alex Hormozi

• Create an offer people feel stupid saying “no” to. 

• Fulfill that offer 

Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Identity based goal setting 

• If someone followed me around with a video camera, would what they capture be in alignment with WHO I say I am?

• Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck