The Ledger
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Bloom: Networking is dead because transactions prevent genuine relationships
“Networking is dead because it implies a transaction that is not conducive to building real relationships.”
Bloom: People Give Themselves Too Much Grace Instead of Self-Accountability
“While I agree that occasionally we need to give ourselves a little bit of grace, I think for most people, we actually need to hold ourselves to the fire more often than not. I think we give ourselves too much grace and look, I like, maybe that's a harsh take, …”
Bloom: A Great Marriage Is the Biggest Cheat Code for Making Money
“I personally think that having an incredible marriage is the biggest cheat code for making a lot of money in life.”
Bloom: Young people would not trade lives with Warren Buffett
“The question that I go and ask people, especially young people, is would you trade lives with Warren Buffett? He's worth a hundred thirty billion dollars. He has access to anyone in the world. He reads and learns for a living. He flies around on private jets, …”
Bloom: Visible phones during conversations scientifically reduce feelings of connection
“There is scientific evidence that if I have my phone out on the table, even face down while we're having a conversation, you and I experience less feelings of connection after that interaction than if I don't have my phone out in front of us.”
Bloom: Walking during hard conversations is scientifically proven to improve them
“If you have a hard conversation with someone, going for a walk with them while you have the hard conversation is scientifically proven to improve that conversation.”
Bloom: Doing hard tasks early rewires brain for universal performance
“When you do a hard thing to start the day, if you can convince yourself to do that over and over and over again, You start to interact with the world differently. You rewire your brain to recognize that you are capable of taking an action and creating an outco…”
Sahil Bloom: Steve Jobs interviewed Tim Cook for taking a startup job
“Steve Jobs was looking for someone to hire and saw his resume and like saw the IBM track and was like, oh, weird, big company guy, probably not a fit. Then saw that he had taken this job at this little startup, and was like maybe this guy's actually different …”
Sahil Bloom: Documenting Real-Time Experiences Outperforms Engineered Content
“The most interesting content in the world is, like, journey-based content. We often think that these kind of, like, engineered moments are the thing that really drives content, but people want to hear about a human journey. They want to hear about, like, a rea…”
Bloom: Parents Are Their Child's Favorite Person for Only Ten Years
“For 10 years, you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. And after that, they have new favorite people. They have friends, best friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, partners, spouses, children of their own, and you will never occupy that same place…”
Bloom: Kids Assume Absent Parents Do Not Care Unless Told the 'Why'
“Your children need to understand the why, why you are doing the things you are doing. That is how you navigate this tension well, because what kids do is if you do not tell them the why of why you are excited about the things you're doing, why you are passiona…”
Bloom: People rise to the level of expectations held by their circle
“There is clear scientific evidence that the people you surround yourself with determine your outcomes. The Pygmalion effect says that we rise to the level of expectations that others have for us in our circle.”
Bloom: Harvard study shows age-50 relationship satisfaction best predicts age-80 health
“The Harvard study of adult development is this incredible longitudinal study that was done over the course of 85 plus years. They tracked the lives of 1300 original participants and then all of their descendants, so like about 2000 plus people, and they found …”
Bloom: A 20-year-old possesses roughly two billion seconds of life
“A billion seconds is roughly 30 years. So like when you're 20, you have maybe two billion seconds left. When you're 50, you have a billion seconds. And that idea is a really important one because what it implies is that time is your most precious asset. It is …”
Bloom: Avoiding difficult conversations creates emotional debt repaid with interest
“When you avoid a hard conversation, you are taking on a debt that you have to repay with interest at a date in the future.”
Sahil Bloom: Use an 'ABC system' to build minimum viable daily habits
“With any habit you are trying to build you create an A goal, a B goal, and a C goal. The A goal is your best case. That is the like best version of the thing during any given day. The B goal is sort of a baseline case. And then the C goal is the minimum viable…”
Sahil Bloom: Chatted with Tim Cook for six months without recognizing him
“So six months go by and I'm like talking to all these people early in the morning. And I was having a conversation with one guy and I walk away and someone comes up to me and is like, do you know who that is? That guy you were just talking to? And I was like, …”
Bloom: Tim Cook wakes up at 3:45 AM daily to work out
“He is the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world, and he wakes up at 3:45 every single day and goes and works out.”
Bloom: HBS study finds wealthy individuals say they need 2-5x more money to be happy
“Michael Norton, this Harvard Business School professor, went and interviewed high net worth individuals, people worth anywhere from a million on through a hundred million plus. And he asked them, how happy are you on a scale of one to 10? So they answered, and…”