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Consistency creates cognitive leverage: once you have learned how something is done in one place, you can use that knowledge to immediately understand other places that use the same approach.
There is magic in thinking big. But it is so easy to forget. When you hit some rough spots, there is danger that your thinking will shrink in size. And when it does, you lose.
Building strong, genuine relationships both with customers and within professional networks drives business success. Jarvis explains how personalized interactions and continuous engagement foster trust and loyalty. 'Social capital works because it fosters reciprocity,' he says, highlighting how helping others and sharing value leads to supportive, mutually beneficial networks.
It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action. As Voltaire once wrote, ‘The best is the enemy of the good.’
Let go of the past—The adaptation strategy
Empathy: Empathy is at the core of nonviolent communication. It involves understanding and connecting with the feelings and needs of others. By practicing empathy, we create an environment of trust and understanding, which can help resolve conflicts and build stronger relationships.
The diversity and unity within creation mirror God's infinite goodness, with each creature contributing uniquely to the harmonious whole. Aquinas notes, "Because it was not possible for his goodness to be represented through any single creature, he produced many different ones." This idea celebrates the vast array of life and phenomena as reflections of divine creativity. For example, ecosystems thrive on biodiversity, where each species plays a vital role in maintaining balance. Recognizing this interdependence urges humanity to appreciate and protect the environment, acknowledging that every part of creation has inherent value and is a testament to God's glory.
The highest challenge inside organizations, including families, is to set them up and run them in a way that enables each person to inwardly sense his or her innate worth and potential for greatness.
When we say out loud what’s in our thoughts, when we reveal our dark struggles, we take them captive and break their power.
The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.
Freedom involves responsibility, and there’s a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.
People process spatial relations with the right hemisphere of the brain, and our neuroimaging research had shown that the imprint of trauma is principally on the right hemisphere as well.
As Goethe said, 'Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One toward Whom it is directed.
If you want to go viral, it must be baked into your product. There must be a reason to share it and the means to do so.
Start with the simplest version of your product that allows you to test your core assumptions. This helps you gather early feedback and iterate quickly without wasting resources on features that customers may not want.
To activate the hive switch, immerse yourself in activities that involve synchronized movement and collective effort, such as team sports or community service projects.
To separate enduring principle from local custom, the chapter elevates appeals to creation as transcultural norms, binding unless later Scripture explicitly modifies them. Jesus’s ruling on divorce grounds marital permanence in Genesis (Mt 19:4–6), modeling a return to creation rather than capitulating to first-century debates, which signals that creation functions as the default moral baseline. This framework also distinguishes institutions Scripture merely recognizes (e.g., submission to Roman authorities) from structures it positively institutes and endorses (e.g., marriage’s authority patterns), cautioning against equating slavery with the household order. The payoff is a stable criterion that resists cultural relativism; the cost is that it constrains popular attempts to revise biblical ethics by appealing to changing social norms. When later redemptive-historical developments (such as abrogated dietary laws) explicitly appear, they set the new terms; absent that, creation holds.
Tell People Around You To Leave You Alone
Try before you buy leverages psychology to foster commitment and conversions.
