Curiosity Snippets from Delivering Happiness
Snippets from Book by Tony Hsieh
Weekly Book Highlights
This week I am sharing interesting snippets from Tony Hsieh Book Delivering Happiness.
Tony Hsieh was the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos. It is a captivating book that explores the importance of creating a positive and fulfilling work culture. Hsieh shares his personal journey and the lessons he learned on his path to building successful businesses centered around the happiness of employees and customers.
Curious fact - I got this book recomendation from another book, The Third Door by Alex Banayan
Sharing my curiousity snippets which made me think and reflect ….
sometimes the truth alone isn’t enough, and that presentation of the truth was just as important as the truth
Play only with what you can afford to lose.
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
Learn by surrounding yourself with talented players.
in poker, in business, or in life, it was easy to get caught up and engrossed in what I was currently doing, and that made it easy to forget that I always had the option to change tables. Psychologically, it’s hard because of all the inertia to overcome. Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
it’s a bad idea to invest in industries you don’t understand, in companies you don’t have any control or influence over, or in people you don’t know or trust.
So my advice is to stop trying to “network” in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you’ll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendships later down the road. You won’t know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2–3 years later down the road.
P.S. I’d love to know: What is the single snippet above that sounds most interesting or impactful to you?
Weekly Curiousity Corner
What I’m Reading
This week I am rereading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book by Yuval Noah Harari. Its interesting to read his predictions of AI impact from 2018 , how far we went in the last 5 years and what can we expect going forward. I will share some snippets of curiosity in coming weeks.