adaptive mindset Quotes

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

If an idea or opportunity strikes organically, I would do it.

It's not always going to be there; every play is not going to be a 40-yard gain. You just have to take what they give you. When the opportunity comes, you have to split it and make them pay for it.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.