The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

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Share it: Connecting with people you love when you’re under stress can help you diminish its negative consequences. At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I’ve conducted on my chart-topping podcast - are a set of principles that ensure excellence.

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A psychological moonshot is a small detail that significantly improves the perception of something. Uber, the biggest taxi app in the world, has its own team of behavioral scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. They found the main principles that affect the satisfaction of their customers:Steven does an excellent job of sharing information from those that he has interviewed, but it's interspersed with his own reflections, learnings from his own entrepreneurship, and his practice. Each lesson is fairly short, but it is not simplified or shortened to the point of being too simplistic. There are parts of the book I'll take away and use and other parts not so much, the laws are broken down to their absolute basic form and are not particularly detailed in evidence but do have a story of their application. It’s cleverly written, a very easy to read, to the point book and that made it a hard book to put down. Brainstorm reasons for failure: Write a list of reasons that could have led to failure. Everyone must do this individually to avoid groupthink bias.

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IN THE midst of a chaotic geo-political and ethical crisis, it feels, at best, futile and, at worst, glib to be pondering abstract moral questions. From those questions that might evince something vaguely helpful, The Moral Maze (Radio 4, Wednesday of last week) chose one with promise: “How should we think about our enemies?”— a question that encompasses that proxy war fought between battalions of social-media commentators. But it was too early for some to be pondering such niceties. Righteous rage and justified violence were on the lips, and this was not the time to offer philosophical dialectic.

Sunk-cost fallacy bias: This is when we stand by a decision because we’ve spent time and money on it. Moving on implies losing the time and money we’ve invested in it. Confirmation bias: This is focusing on the information that supports your ideas while ignoring everything that doesn’t. The process of habituation also affects sound as well. If you’re exposed to loud sounds for a while, you get so used to them you might fall asleep eventually. Likewise, you might also like something just because it’s familiar. This is called “ the mere exposure effect” and it explains why we listen to the same song regularly. Just being exposed to something more often makes you think of it favorably. New things feel engaging, but old things feel repetitive, but what we need to like them is what some call” the optimal level of exposure”. This is a sweet spot between old and new which explains why the market is full of remixes of old songs, video game remakes, and movie sequels. Finally, we also get habituated to smells. If you stench, you’ll get so used to it that you won’t notice it after a while. Fast-forward to failure: encourage everyone to visualize a future where the project in question failed.

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Pressure is something you earn and a privilege you can have. To be clear, pressure is an external force, and as such, it’s outside of your control. Pressure is often hard and unenjoyable, but also has the potential to turn you into a better version of yourself. Pressure often leads to stress, but since pressure is external, how you interpret it makes a big difference. If you experience a lot of stress but don’t see it as harmful, you can lessen its effects. Review yourself: Think about your feelings and emotions. Try to articulate what you’re going through. I have been a fan of Steven and the podcast for a while. I can agree that this book should have been his first book and also agree that he couldn’t have written this book with the knowledge he had when writing his first.It’s a must read for everyone, the laws relate to all aspects of life not just business, which is something that I really loved.