learning
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What is familiar to you? Is it being comfortable, or being challenged? Being criticized or encouraged? Being around people with a negative viewpoint, or people that radiate light and positive energy? Are you familiar with self limiting beliefs, and a sinking feeling in your stomach when you try and fail? Or familiar with an unwavering…
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Developing our philosophy, determining how we should best live, is a core objective in our lives. We should each build our own, drawing from inspirations and role models that have gone before us. Living a life focused on serving others is an example of a philosophy. Principles are more specific pillars of the philosophy. Multiple…
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I believe in focus, the value of concentration. I’ve posted about doing two important things at once as a recipe for getting nothing done. I used to do my homework during class though, and it was highly effective strategy for me. For one, I believe, listening to lectures generally does not bring a high level…
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However brutal, if you learn from them you make good of them. The true mistakes are the repeat failures, the ones you don’t learn from. These become devastating and can be exponentially more damaging than what you thought was the initial mistake. Successful people make mistakes – then learn and live differently accordingly. But many…
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The concept of a zero sum game is one I think of often. A zero sum game has a winner and a loser in equal proportions. It assumes finite resources that must be distributed to one or the other. If you have one carrot and you and one other person flip a coin to see…
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I tend to finish the books that I read. It’s sometimes a good habit, but it depends. The important thing about reading is the experience. You can learn from, and get entertainment value from both fiction and non-fiction. It’s important to know why you’re reading what you’re reading. If it’s no longer meeting the objective…
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Note to self: when writing, focus on what I’m curious to learn, not what I think that I already know. Maintaining a healthy curiosity will take us to new places and experiences and is the path of growth. Whereas what we think we know we might not know as well as we think and staying…
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If you can’t take it you won’t grow. If you aren’t getting it you aren’t around the right people. If it makes you quit you weren’t committed. Seek to give it to yourself before seeking it from others. Give it when asked, but reserve it for those that truly want it.
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I fell asleep once driving 60 miles per hour on the freeway. I woke up to the sound of my beloved Infiniti G20 screeching against the wall on the passenger side, having drifted 5 lanes over. God saved me from the natural outcome of my decisions – I was very blessed to be completely unharmed…
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Taking action often leads to learning, even if it doesn’t always lead to the desired outcome. This is in contrast to wishing alone, which doesn’t move you forward. We may not always see the benefits of our actions immediately, but when we reflect on them we can often find something we gained from them. An…
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