Jim

“I’m continually amazed at how even extremely high performers’ lives are often still controlled in some way by their family-of-origin or in-law relationships. I wish we had some cosmic algorithm that actually revealed how much lost performance comes from people having to continually negotiate the intrusion of family-of-origin conditioning and interference into their businesses, careers, marriages, parenting styles, life choices, and the like. It literally becomes crippling to even some of the most talented people out there. In these situations, even if the adult umbilical cord is providing food, it’s charging exorbitant rent.”
― Henry Cloud, The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it

“People who are committed to mastery don’t freak out (as much) when they hit an obstacle. They reassess and then get going again, thinking they can get better.”
― Henry Cloud, The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it

“make it a practice to separate the person from the problem.”
― Andy Crowe, Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know That Everyone Else Does Not: What the Top 2 Per Cent Know That Everyone Else Does Not

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams”
― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World