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20241001 - Chapter 1: The Challenge Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it. p2 This book might be similar to "The One Thing". Part I: Things You Think You Know 20241002 - Chapter 2: Redefining the Year The end of the year represents a line in the sand, a point at which we measure our success or failure. Never mind that it's an arbitrary deadline; everyone buys into it. It is the deadline that creates the urgency . p12 I think this book is mainly about how to create urgency. 20241005 - Chapter 3: The Emotional Connection Can we use imagination as big data training to our brain? To some extent, we can. But we need validation of those data(imagination) to reenforce and go further. 20241005 - Chapter 4: Throw Out the Annual Plan Why 12 week not 4 week? If each week has 40 hours, 12 week is around 500 hours. Barely enough to get something serious done, or reach entry level in a new domain. I need to specify aim for next quarter! 20241005 - Chapter 5: O...

20240626 - Chapter One - Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America 20240627 - Chapter Two - Pilgrim's Progress: Boston, 1706-1723 Is it so tightly related to gene? Why those famous people's ancestors were all so smart and brave? By asking what seemed to be innocent questions, Franklink would draw people into making concessions that would gradually prove whatever point he was trying to assert. p27 The better approach: assuming that I could be wrong, and asking questions to confirm it. 20240628 - Chapter Three - Journeyman: Philadelphia and London, 1723-1726 "......it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." p37 True. But how did Franklin find that? People are more likely to admire your work if you'are able to keep them from feeling jealous of you. p40 Maybe, this is the reason that most celebrities insist that their success mainly came from luck. A secret to being more revered than resented, he learned, was to display a self-d...