The Best Minute: On persistence, leadership, and discipline

Jul 13

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. John Maxwell on good leadership:

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

II. Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, on persistence:

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. The most disciplined people you know are not more disciplined than you; they have better habits. They don’t think about every profitable decision they make but instead have created good rhythms that guide their day-to-day lives.

Create habits that lead to the results you desire, and the results you desire will come without “disciplining” yourself to do it.

II. Following Jesus is not a one-time decision but a life-long commitment.

1 RANDOM FACT

It's a myth that people are either "left-brained" or "right-brained."

The concept of “left-brained” and “right-brained” individuals appears to stem from research in the 1960s on “split-brain” patients, whose corpus callosum (the bridge between hemispheres) had been separated. The research revealed that patients responded in different ways to stimuli such as images, depending on which brain hemisphere perceived them.

While the brain’s left and right hemispheres do handle distinct functions, their duties aren’t strictly divided according to broad categories like “logical” or “creative.” People can't be split neatly into groups with special strengths based on one hemisphere being more dominant. On the contrary, most behaviors and abilities require the right and left sides of the brain to work together to achieve a common objective

Source: Psychology Today