Posts by Marcellino Nehme
The science of deliberate practice
Of course, more practice will make the difference between being good and being great, but the most efficient route to expertise is not mindless practice—it’s deliberate practice. Becoming an expert at a particular skill has more to do with the quality of the practice than with talent. Deliberate practice is focused, systematic, and purposeful. It’s…
Read MoreWhat is the Eisenhower Matrix?
The Eisenhower Matrix, also referred to as Urgent-Important Matrix, helps you decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all. D. Eisenhower had to make tough decisions continuously about which of the many tasks he should focus on…
Read MoreEpic S&P 500 Rally Is Powered by Assets You Can’t See or Touch
Take all the physical assets owned by all the companies in the S&P 500, all the cars and office buildings and factories and merchandise, then sell them all at cost in one giant sale, and they would generate a net sum that doesn’t even come out to 20% of the index’s $28 trillion value. Much…
Read MoreSee inside the eye of Hurricane Epsilon with these jaw-dropping photos
The record-setting Atlantic hurricane season of 2020 has delivered another major storm in the form of Hurricane Epsilon. The storm’s intensity is now waning, but the daring crew of an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters airplane took a trip into the hurricane’s eye on Wednesday. The views were spectacular. Click here to read the full…
Read MoreThese biological batteries generate renewable energy from the ground
In a park on the Spanish island of Ibiza, a prototype for new renewable energy isn’t a huge spinning turbine or a field of solar panels. Instead, it’s partially hidden underground: a biological battery that is generating energy from the soil itself. Pablo Vidarte, the 24-year-old founder of Bioo, the biotech startup developing the panel,…
Read MoreHindsight bias: the knew-it-all-along phenomenon
Historians and physicians alike are constantly fighting an invisible beast: the hindsight bias, also known as creeping determinism, which is the tendency for people to perceive past outcomes as having been more predictable than they actually were. Linked to distortions of our memories, the hindsight bias causes us to think we knew how an event…
Read MoreSome business and leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
Temperament is the great separator. Four days after FDR took the presidential oath in 1933, he visited former Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was celebrating his 92nd birthday. After that visit, Holmes described Roosevelt as having, “A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament.”Intelligence is important but it’s useless if not paired with the…
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