Book Notes Flashcards
List and explain the three most effective learning methods for subject mastery (from making it stick)
- Recall and Testing - frequent and mixed retrieval practice like quizzing and flash cards
- Interleaving - learning multiple but related subjects at once instead of mastering one and moving on to the next
- Elaboration/relation - explaining or teaching concepts in your own words and comparing them to other concepts or models.
Recap the 7 key concepts worth remembering from Rejection Proof
- Rejection is an opinion - it reflects on the other person, not you. Different people react differently.
- Rejection has a number - at somepoint, someone will say yes. You just have to keep asking
- Ask Why before goodbye - ask for a reason for the rejection to gain more insight
- Retreat, don’t run - if rejected, try stepping back to a lesser request.
- Collaborate don’t contend - Rather than arguing, ask what you might be able to do to make the request happen.
- When making a request, be confident, give a why, and acknowledge that it might be crazy or weird (if it is).
- Detach yourself from the results. Focus on the parts you can control.
4 key principles from Lead From The Heart
1) Hire people with heart
* emphasize those who look to grow and improve and make an impact
2) Connect on a personal level
- Regular one on one conversations
- Begin conversations with gratitude and acknowledgement
- Discover their dreams and aspirations
- Discover how you can improve
3) Maximize employee potential
- test people
- teach people
- share your expertise
4) Value and Honor achievements
- give recognition only when it’s earned
- never ration recognition when it is earned
- ensure all recognition is genuine and sincere
- institutionalize recognition• encourage people
5 principles from the 5 dysfunctions of a team
1) Absence of Trust - This ties in the idea of psychological safety, where staff feel comfortable to be vulnerable, ask for help, make mistakes, and not engage in defensive behaviors
2) Fear of Conflict - conflict is productive when it can be discussed openly and with respect
3) Lack of Commitment - Everyone is committed to the outcome, even if they disagreed because they felt heard and respected
4) Avoidance of Accountability - driven by clear communication and standards. extreme ownership. The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team members from holding one another accountable.
5) Inattention to results - Lead by example and set the tone. The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the focus on collective success.
What are the 3 characteristics of Ideal Team Player
Humble, Hungry, and Emotionally Smart
4 key take aways from nevert eat alone
1) Health, Wealth, and Children: Helping someone with one of those three things is the direct line to their heart
2) Ping Consistently: constantly touch base to keep connections fresh. Best recommendation is handwritten birthday note
3) Be interesting and be interested. Ask deep questions and discover peoples passions
4) Johari Window: Be mindful of a person’s speaking patterns and energy level and do your best to match them.
What are the 3 ingredients to empathy?
- Affect detection: detecting a change in emotional disposition
- Imaginative transposition: “trying on” the perceived feelings and imagining how you would react in similar circumstances.
- Boundary formation: Acute awareness that the emotion is happening to the other person and not to you.”
Two steps of empathy reflex
- Describe emotional changes you think you see
- Make a guess as to where those emotional changes came from
What are the five ingredients of intelligence/success
- The desire to explore/experiment
- Self-control
- Creativity
- Verbal Communication
- Interpreting nonverbal communication
5 keys/behaviors that predict happiness
- Good Relationships
- A steady dose of altruistic acts
- Cultivating an attitude of gratitude
- Sharing novel experiences with friends 5. deploying a readily available “forgiveness reflex””
Two keys to help your child make friends
- Emotional Regulation
- Empathy
The six keys to effective parenting
- A demanding but warm parenting style.
- comfort with your own emotions
- tracking your child’s emotions
- verbalizing/labeling emotions
- running toward emotions 6. tons of empathy
3 legs of a solid discipline plan
- Clear Consistent rules and rewards
- Swift consistent punishment
- Rules that are explained
The 3 causes shifting America towards right-brain thinking?
- Asia - High skill knowledge work like Coding, Taxes, Law, etc. are now easily outsourced to places like India, China, and the Phillipines
- Automation - Computers can now do things like legal forms, investing, even web design
- Abundance - Consumer America no longer values utility, things have to look good and have meaning and purpose behind them. Think Tom’s Shoes, designer waste baskets, iPhones, etc.
The Six Senses of right brain thinking
- Design - The ability to create something that combines beauty, usefulness, and significance
- Story - Stories are how we remember facts. Transmitting information is far more powerful when done through good story
- Symphony - creating and discovering relationships between unrelated fields
- Empathy
- Play - using humor, games, fun, and joyfulness in work 6. Meaning
What are the 5 patterns of innovation/creativity from “inside the box” and examples of each pattern.
1) Subtraction: List essential components and then remove one component, exploring the potential added value and the feasibility. I.E. Removing the keyboard from an ipad or dyson bladeless fan.
2) Division: Separating a component and placing it somewhere else or changing it. I.E. Television Remotes, Ink cartridges, and convertible pant/shorts
3) Multiplication: copying a component while also effectively changing it or the end result. i.e Training wheels on bike, two-bladed shaving system
4) Task Unification: Bringing certain tasks together into one. i.e. smartphones, fitness trackers watches, 2-1 shampoo, combo washer/dryer
5) Attribute dependency: Correlating two or more attributes. I.E. windshield wipers that change speed as the amount of rain changes, headlights that dim for oncoming cars, lenses that change from light to dark.
What are the three problems that need to be solved in Brand messaging?
1) Practical - what does your product service do? For AQ: I need something to do this summer.
2) Internal - what is you customer looking to solve that’s personal to them. For AQ: I want to be cool and adventurous
3) Philisophical - what deeper philisophical problem your product/service solves. For AQ - Helping people become the best versions of themselves.
The Six steps of leadership from Quiet Leadership
- Think about thinking - Guide them to their own solution
- Listen for potential
- Listen for and focus on a persons own insights
- Keep your own agenda and filter out of the conversation.
- Speak with intent - Be succinct, specific, and generous
- Dance towards insight - Permission>Placement>Ask Thinking Questions>Clarify Thinking
- Create new thinking - Establish desired outcome Then CR.EA.TE: Current Reality, Explore Alternatives, Tap Energy
- Follow up with FEELING
The five elements of effective thinking
- Understand Deeply - identify core ideas and learn and understand them deeply. Master the fundamentals.
- Make mistakes - Start with probable solutions, and continue to correct mistakes until you arrive a correct solution.
- Raise Questions - To deepen understanding ask questions. Anything that you are not certain about, ask and explore.
- Follow the flow of ideas - To truly understand a concept, discover how it evolved from existing simpler concepts, and explore where it could continue to evolve.
- Change - following the four elements creates change in the way you think.
What are the 3 stages of “career conversations” from Radical Candor
- Life Story
- Dreams/Goals
- Career Plan
What are the 5 key questions from The Coaching Habit
- What’s on your mind?
- And what else?
- What’s the real problem here for you?
- What do you want?
- How Can I Help?
What is the rule of 3 for presenting?
In short-term memory, you can only carry 3-4 points, so break down presentations to 1 main point with 3 supporting points.
5 Key Lessons from Designing your Life
- Be Curious - There’s something interesting about everything. Find out what it is, it may interest you
- Prototype - Try stuff see what you like and what you don’t and make adjustments
- Reframe Problems - look at dysfunctional beliefs and reframe them as solvable problems
- Ask for help - seek out advice and consultation on your path.
- know it’s a process
Fairness statement to use from Never split the difference
“I want you to feel like you are being treated fairly at all times. So please stop me at any time if you feel I’m being unfair, and we’ll address it.”
4 primal urges from never split difference
- safe
- in control
- understood
- accepted
4 Key communication methods from never split the difference
- mirroring - mirror last 3 words of a persons sentence in a confirmatory question tone.
- Label & Paraphrase- validate someone else’s emotion by acknowledging it. Paraphrase their perspective.
- Verbalize the negative - I’m sorry, I’m an idiot…
- Calibrated questions - “what about this doesn’t work for you?” “what would you need to make this work?” “How am I supposed to do that?”
3 steps to anchor & negotiate from never split difference
- start with negative emotional anchor - “I’m embarrassed to say this, or this is going to sound totally unreasonable”.
- Say No (up to 4 times) with self-deprecation - “That sounds more than fair, but I’m embarrassed to say that I just can’t do that.”
- Use Ackerman bargaining
- Buyer: 65%>85%>95%>Target price
- Seller: 135%>115%>105%>Target price
- Target price should be a very unusually exact number.
- At final offer add a non-monetary item to show that you’re at your limit.
Body language rule from never split the difference
7-38-55: Communication is 7% words you say, 38% tone of voice, 55% body language and facial expressions.
2 best places to start conversations at an event
- Just away from the bar - after people get their drink they’ll be looking for conversation
- Next to the host - You can greet the host and ask them to introduce you to someone
3 body language steps for building trust in conversation
- Show your hands
- Make enough eye contact to notice eye color
- have an open stance
3 great conversation starters
- What was the highlight of your day/week
- What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you recently
- What do you do to keep life interesting?
3 steps to highlight conversation
- Find something genuinely interesting or impressive about the person you’re talking to
- Rave about it when you find it
- Share one memorable story of your own
3 ways to make people like you (in conversation)
- Find commonalities
- Go deep by asking the five whys
- See if you can find something to help them with.
Teaching module for AQ from Practice Perfect
- Prioritize & Plan-Spend 80% of your time practicing the 20% of skills that are most important-Schedule out lesson plans so you know what skills you want to focus on each session
- Deconstruct, Demonstrate & Describe-Breakdown complex skills into individual parts, Let people succed in each before moving on.-Good teaching requires both showing and explaining to ensure understanding
- Explain & Execute -have the student explain their understanding of the skill-have them completely execute the skill without intervention
- Review, Rectify, and Recap -Review the exercise with the student, emphasizing what specific aspects they did really well.-Review errors and how they can Rectify them next time-Have them Recap their feedback to you to lock-in the exercise.
5 Tools for Handling Emotions w/ Kids and 3 points to remember when using the tools
- Acknowledge Feelings With Words - “It can be so frustrating when you can’t do what you want”
- Acknowledge Feelings With Writing - “You really want that toy. Let’s write it down on your wish list. What else do you want too?”
- Acknowledge Feelings with art - “You are this angry!”” Draw an Angry face with angry lines
- Give in Fantasy What you cannot give in reality - “I wish we could play at the park all day and never go home!”
- Acknowledge feelings with almost silent attention - “Ugh! oooooh, mmmmm.”
Points to remember
- Don’t use “but”, substitute “The problem is…“or “Even though you know…”
- Match their emotion, be dramatic!
- Resist the urge to ask questions of a distressed child
8 Tools for engaging cooperation with kids and 2 important points to remember when using the tools
- Be Playful
- Offer a choice - do you want to hop to bed or skip?
- Put them in charge - can you set the timer and let us know when it’s time for bed?
- Give information - Chairs are for sitting on
- Describe what you see - I see most of the blocks are put away, there are only 3 blocks left to go
- Describe how you feel - It hurts my feelings when someone yells at me.
- Write a note - “I would love to have a splish splash date tonight! Love, your tubby!”
- Take action without insult - “I’m taking the food away, I can’t let the floor get dirty”
Important points to remember
- Don’t use choices as threats, make sure both options are acceptable
- When expressing anger or frustration, use the word “I”, not “you”.
4 Tools for resolving conflict with kids
- Express your feelings strongly - Hey! I don’t like it when someone pushes me!
- Show your child how to make amends - “Mommy is sad that you hit her, let’s do something to make her feel better. Do you want to say sorry and give her a big hug?
- Offer two alternate choices• “Elena is going night night, and I know that upsets you. We can go color or go read a book, you decide.”
- Try Problem solving
- Acknowledge feelings
- Describe the problem (the problem is…)
- Ask for ideas on how to solve the problem
- Decide which ideas you both like