The best candidate for any job needs only three prevailing qualities: aptitude, attitude, and willingness. As long as those three characteristics are firmly established, everything else can be taught and learned. Without them, candidates who showcase the most relevant experience, skills, and work history aren't worthy of an offer to join the organization.

#Recruiting #ParadoxPairs #Humility #Ambition

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Break the endless cycle of critique → reply → rejoinder by embracing adversarial collaboration, a method to solve problems more quickly and transparently.

#AdversarialCollaboration #Paradox #paradoxpairs

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Discipline is freedom's collaborator, focusing our attention on administrative tasks at deliberate times, granting us freedom to use the remaining time for our creative pursuits.
#ParadoxPairs #Discipline #Freedom #RickRubin
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Quitting is recognition that our time is precious, that we are making a choice in where we place our efforts.

Quitting is leaning into our uncertainty where it can lead us to more happiness and more meaning.

Quitting is about reversing the declining value in our work and cutting our losses.

Quitting marks a definitive border between toil and fulfillment.

#Paradox #Quitting #Grit #ParadoxPairs

https://www.paradoxpairs.com/grit-quit/

Respecting someone so much that you give them candid, constructive feedback, even when delivering that message is hard, is kindness.

#Kindness #Directness #Paradox #ParadoxPairs #DalaiLama

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Friction is a design tool, when applied correctly it improves our experiences, decision satisfaction, and can protect us. #paradoxpairs #friction #IKEAeffect @axbom https://www.paradoxpairs.com/friction-satisfaction/

Unexpectedly, as uncertainty and complexity rise, making the outcome less predictable, we find that overconfidence rises too. #ParadoxPairs #Paradox #Overconfidence https://www.paradoxpairs.com/overconfidence-performance/

Coming from me tomorrow… #Paradox #ParadoxPairs

Referential linking is a shortcut our brains use to improve processing fluency, however, as a side effect, it causes us to believe things the more often we hear them, even if untrue. https://www.paradoxpairs.com/fluency-repetition/ #ParadoxPairs #Fluency #Repetition #IllusoryTruthEffect #Leadership #Culture #psychology