“Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Pates of Human Societies illustrates how farm-based societies that generated a surplus of food ultimately gave rise to professional specialization.”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“It was not the British government that began seizing great chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by a violent, utterly ruthless and intermittently mentally unstable corporate predator – Clive.”
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
“It’s not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it’s that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
“Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
“Dweck points out that mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine.”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
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