Excellent Advice for Living

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• Author: Kevin Kelly

Highlights

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe. — location: 82

Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points — location: 85

Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?” until there is no more. — location: 88

Always demand a deadline because it weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. A deadline prevents you from trying to make it perfect so you have to make it different. Different is better. — location: 96

Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it. — location: 100

Prototype your life. Try stuff instead of making grand plans — location: 108

When you forgive others they may not notice but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves. — location: 111