Quotes from the books I read

We rate fast talkers as more competent and likable.

Finland is nation of introverts. There is a joke about finlanders, how do you know if a Finnish guy likes you, he stares at your shoes instead of his own.

You can be introvert, extrovert and ambivert ,all three based on situations. Pure introvert and pure extroverts are found in mental asylum.

Introverts have higher sensitivity.

In 1790 , 3% of us population lived in cities. In 2020 , 82% of us population lives in cities and urban areas. People live in cities tend to be more extroverts than introverts.

All around you people are judging you, silently.

Everybody has inferiority complex, you just need back bone with it.

Prepare a face to meet the faces you meet.

We moved as a society from Character to charisma.

It will take at-least up-to age 10 to even out difference in maturity for kids. Thats why Denmark doesn't allow grouping into grades until that age.

Autonomy, complexity and connection are the three qualities between efforts and reward.

Hard work is prison sentence, if it doesn't have passion in it.

Transmitter orientation communication means its responsibility of other person to tell clearly what he wants. Receiver oriented communication means, it's up to receiver to make sense of it.

Historically, people who produced rice worked much harder than anyone else.

Some rice farmers in Asia, could work up to 3000 hours a year.

Russian proverb: If god does not bring it, earth will not give it.

china proverb: don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Comfort zone: If you have more than 80% success rate, you are operating in comfort zone.
Sweet spot: 50 tp 80% success.
Survival zone: less than 50% success rate.

Practice on the days you eat.

New habit takes 30 days to form.

Take mistakes seriously, but never personally.

Practice begins when you get it right.

Think like a gardener , work like a carpenter.