Bad Habits: The Psychology of Behavioural Debt—and How to Pay It Off

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Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoundly counterproductive. It wasn't. Matt Higgins — Shark Tank investor, Harvard Business School lecturer, and accidental dropout — ha ...  Show more

Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them

We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them. It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" and "here it is" is not a step but a rather long, occasionally bewildering journey. Not unlike flying a plane. It involves a terrifyi ...  Show more

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