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John Boyd

Fighter pilot, creator of the OODA loop

“Whoever can handle the quickest rate of change survives. Orientation is the schwerpunkt: it shapes the way we observe, decide, and act.”

The one idea

Reorient before your map expires.

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The OODA loop

Observe, orient, decide, act. Whoever reorients fastest to a changing reality wins.

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Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger

Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

“Assemble a latticework of mental models.”

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Andy Grove

Andy Grove

Co-founder and CEO, Intel

“Only the paranoid survive.”

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Adam Grant

Organizational psychologist, Wharton

“Think like a scientist.”

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor, Stoic

“You have power over your mind, not events.”

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Richard Feynman

Physicist, Nobel laureate

“You must not fool yourself.”

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Socrates

Socrates

Philosopher of Athens

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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