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  👑 How to be a great leader.
  😇 Finding spirituality and happiness.
  💸 Lessons on financial wealth.
  🌱 Living a minimalistic life.

  
  

• Here are 32 insights I have gathered for you this week:

• Consumers Engage With Reason:
  Consumers engage more with the reasons behind a product than the product itself; what you produce is simply a manifestation of your beliefs.

• Recruitment Philosophy:
  Exceptional organizations don’t just recruit skilled individuals and drive them; they seek those already driven and use inspiration to guide them.

• Attitude Over Skills:
  Skills can be taught, hence it's better to recruit based on attitude rather than capabilities.

• Role of A Great Leader:
  A leader’s task is not merely to generate ideas but to foster an environment where innovative ideas can thrive.

• Leadership Essentials:
  Effective leadership hinges on crafting a compelling vision of new possibilities and effectively communicating it.

• Work With What You Love:
  Exerting effort in a job we lack passion for breeds stress, whereas working on what we love ignites our passion.

• Happiness Come From Within:
  Regardless of your achievements or the people around you, if you are constantly feeling angry, depressed, or distracted, you won't be able to appreciate your life.

• Mind as a Game:
  Managing thoughts can be likened to playing a video game where you either evolve in each round or repeatedly fail at the same challenge.

• Self-Guidance is True Wisdom:
  True wisdom can sometimes simply mean taking your own advice seriously.

• Manufacture Gratitude:
  In times of vague unhappiness, it's beneficial to foster gratitude by considering the worse things that haven’t happened to you, or recognizing how fortunate your current conditions are compared to others.

• Mindfulness is Active:
  Mindfulness is far from passive; it's an engaged, fervent pursuit of realizing the true nature of every moment, including the very emergence of thoughts and sensations.

• Value of Our Minds:
  The only true possession we have is our mind, which forms the basis of all our experiences and contributions.

• Circumstances and Achievement:
  Success isn't solely a result of hard work, just as poverty isn’t solely due to laziness; remember this when assessing yourself and others.

• The Intrinsic Value of Money:
  The paramount importance of money lies in its power to allow you control over your own time.

• Wealth Display = Wealth Loss:
  Using money to display wealth is a surefire way to diminish your financial resources.

• Freedom with Money:
  Investing money to manage your time freely provides the most substantial return for happiness and satisfaction.

• Be Flexible in Your Planning:
  While planning is crucial, the most important aspect is to expect and adapt when plans do not unfold as intended.

• Unpredictability of Events:
  Events that have never occurred before are common occurrences.

• The Greatest Benefit of Money:
  The greatest benefit money offers is the control over how you spend your time.

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• Importance of Love and Compassion:
  Human survival hinges on love and compassion; they are essentials, not mere luxuries.

• Root to Happiness:
  Practicing compassion is the key to achieving happiness for oneself and others.

• Disciplined Mind = Happiness:
  A trained mind fosters happiness, whereas a lack of discipline in mind leads to suffering.

• How to Reduce Suffering:
  You might not evade difficult situations, but you can reduce your suffering by choosing how to respond to them.

• What To Desire:
  Learning to desire what we already have is crucial for lasting happiness rather than yearning for new possessions or experiences.

• Prioritize Your Life:
  Unless you set your own priorities, others will set them for you.

• Philosophy of Essentialism:
  Essentialism is not about getting more done but about focusing on the right tasks; it's investing your time and energy where it counts the most.

• Recognize Unimportance:
  Do not underestimate the significance of recognizing the unimportance of most things.

• Reevaluating Busyness:
  What if we valued calm reflection and quality time with loved ones over the constant busyness?

• Viewpoint on Trade-offs:
  For essentialists, life's inherent trade-offs are not negative but opportunities to determine what truly matters.

• Historical Priorities:
  Historically, 'priority' meant the single most important concern and remained singular for centuries.

• Decision Clarity:
  If you're unsure about something, consider it a no.

• Acknowledging Mistakes:
  Admitting a mistake is simply acknowledging that you have learned and grown.

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