“People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers.” Don’t let this happen to your life. A solution to this mentality is to maintain a strong core purpose that forces / drives short term decision-making for the long term. To have a clear purpose, you have to think long and hard about it. And then you have to keep it top-of-mind to guide your personal resource allocation. How you spend your personal TIME, ENERGY and TALENT. Key Ideas:
- Your personal resources are finite, and your purpose helps you decide how to allocate them.
- Delayed gratification is key to success in life: business and personal failure are often traced back to over-indulging in efforts that offer immediate gratification.
- Families have cultures just like companies: cooperation (and teamwork) are key to a happy life with family. The Tools of Cooperation is a useful model for this. The simplest tools are power tools, but the most effective and enduring are culture tools.
