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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

✍️ Top Quotes From the Book

• The takeaway was that you have to align the interests of executives with the interests of shareholders.
• True motivation is getting people to do something because they want to do it.
• In other words, successful companies don’t succeed because they have the right strategy at the beginning; but rather, because they have money left over after the original strategy fails, so that they can pivot and try another approach.
• In fact, how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend.
• In other words, successful companies don’t succeed because they have the right strategy at the beginning; but rather, because they have money left over after the original strategy fails, so that they can pivot and try another approach.
• The two fundamental jobs that children need to do are to feel successful and to have friends—every day.
• Rather, the reverse is equally true: the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to.
• Changing your perspective is a powerful way to deepen your relationships.
• But the nature of these activities—experiences in which they’re not deeply engaged and that don’t really challenge them to do hard things—denies our children the opportunity to develop the processes they’ll need to succeed in the future.
• Rather, self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.
• Children will learn when they are ready to learn, not when we’re ready to teach them.
• Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged.
• Helping your children learn how to do difficult things is one of the most important roles of a parent.