Personality (Anki)

Question 1

Being an easy person to work with

Grace Beverley x Sharmadean Reid

Answer 1

Polite
Personable
Showing up
Sticking to deadlines
Deciding how you want to show up in the room = visual and energy
Take no shit when you don’t need to take shit

Question 2

Warren Buffet Saying No

Answer 2

People are going to want your time. It’s the only thing you can’t buy. I can buy anything I want, basically, but I can’t buy time.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Question 3

Jeff Bezos Saying Yes

Answer 3

Saying yes sometimes also helps us take advantage of what Jeff Bezos calls “wandering.”
As Bezos wrote in Amazon’s 2018 shareholder letter:
Sometimes (often actually) in business, you do know where you’re going, and when you do, you can be efficient. Put in place a plan and execute. In contrast, wandering in business is not efficient … but it’s also not random. Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency. You need to employ both.
The outsized discoveries – the “non-linear” ones – are highly likely to require wandering.

Question 4

Mel Robbins - 5 points about friendship

Answer 4

1. Everybody else’s life is not a party. Either make your life a party or focus on making a few good friends
2. People like you more than you think - start acting like it
3. Best Friends are Flexible. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be BFF. Tune in to what you need, to be people that feel like warmth
4. You don’t have to be everybody’s friend. Not everybody is meant to be your friend
5. Friends are critical to live a happy life. You deserve to have good friends and you deserve to be a good friend. You’re not too busy or too tired.

Question 5

3 types of friendship

Answer 5

1. Friends for a reason (e.g work colleagues, neighbours, sports team)
2. Friends for a season (e.g. college, school, young parents)
3. Friends for a lifetime

Don’t force people into the wrong category.

Question 6

Difference between intelligence and success

According to Scott Galloway

Answer 6

Grit, perseverance and resilience

Question 7

Empathy

Answer 7

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”

Cornel West, The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society, in The Good Citizen, 1999