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The trick is not to work obsessively on the skills and talents you lack, but to focus and cultivate your strengths so that your weaknesses matter less.
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You can’t do meaningful work that makes a difference unless you’re devoted to learning growing, and stretching your skills.
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No process in history has done more to facilitate the exchange of information, skills, wisdom, and contacts than mentoring.
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…in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.
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Rethinking is a skill set, but it’s also a mindset. We already have many of the mental tools we need. We just have to remember to get them out of the shed and remove the rust.
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The curse of knowledge is that it closes our minds to what we don’t know. Good judgment depends on having the skill – and the will – to open our minds.
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In a meta-analysis of ninety-five studies involving over a hundred thousand people, women typically underestimated their leadership skills, while men overestimated their skills.
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When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence.
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If we care about accuracy, we can’t afford to have blind spots. To get an accurate picture of our knowledge and skills, it can help to assess ourselves like scientists looking through a microscope.
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Listening well is more than a matter of talking less. It’s a set of skills in asking and responding. It starts with showing more interest in other people’s interests rather than trying to judge their status or prove our own.
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