“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”
— Raymond Joseph Teller
Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive. The ability
to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas.
"Be less curious about people and more
curious about ideas."
The worst study habits we have and what to do instead
1. Staying up late and waking up early to study
4. Counting the volume of studies
5. Procrastinating till you have all the notes or planning too much
6. Not chilling, partying, gaming, dating, etc.
7. Neglecting food, water, and exercise
The best study techniques and strategies science has to offer
1. Spaced repetition: revise information with increasing gaps in between
2. Interleaving : Study multiple related topics simultaneously
3. Chunking: Study small coherent groups of information together in small
sizes
4. Meta-cognition: Sit back and think about your learning
5. Retrieval practice: Prove you can remember what you’ve learned
6. Mood, Arousal, & Fun: Keep having fun and make learning relatable
& meaningful
What if your concentration is poor and you are easily distracted?
1. Make information challenging
2. Study with background music
3. Use a combination of interleaving & spaced repetition in short
study sessions
16 Worst and Best Study Tips, Techniques & Habits [How-To] - Cognition Today
Being able to manage our emotional responses, even in the face of adversity, is a foundation of emotional capacity building. Being able to manage our emotional responses, even in the face of adversity, is a foundation of emotional capacity.
People
who constantly overreact emotionally are also less
likely to receive the feedback they need to improve.
If a person breaks into tears every time we give them feedback, most of us would come to dread those feedback conversations, and eventually might avoid them altogether.
Learning to handle feedback—and proving to others that you can handle adversity and difficult situations—is a huge part of building your capacity, personally and professionally.
Like many things in life & business, emotion
has a time and place. It’s crucial to have
your emotions be seen as an asset and not a
liability.
“Take control of your emotions
before your emotions take control of you.” – Scott Dye
"If criticism from outside proves
devastating, it is because it so readily joins forces with an infinitely more
strident and more aggressive form of criticism that has long existed inside of
us."
We have a choice. We can assume negative intent from others, and be proven right when things go wrong. Or, we can assume positive intent and occasionally be let down, but build more positive and productive connections along the way.
Is there an area in your life
where you are increasingly assuming negative intent? Do you have a sense of
what it is costing you and how you might assume positive intent instead?
“When you assume negative
intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent,
you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer
almost random in your response.” – Indra Nooyi
"If we take man as he really is, we make him worse, but if we
overestimate him …. If we seem to be idealists and are overestimating,
overrating man, and looking at him that high, here above, you know what happens
? We promote him to what he really can be."
Over decades of focused research, the field has demonstrated that evaluating the moral compass of individual participants does little to advance our understanding of the morality or the actions of a large movement. Only by assessing the goals, tactics, and outcomes of movements as collective phenomena can we begin to discern the distinction between “good” and “bad” movements.
John
Stuart Mill’s Philosophy of Equality
It allows everyone to decide how they can best
contribute to society. “The loss to the world, by refusing to make use of
one-half of the whole quantity of talent it possesses, is extremely serious.”
The story
of Özlem Cekic, one of the first women with a Muslim
immigrant background to be elected to Denmark’s parliament. Almost immediately
after taking office, Cekic’s inbox filled with hate mail, including xenophobic
comments and threats. Cekic courageously reached out and invited senders of
this hate mail to have coffee with her, meetings she called “Dialogue Coffee.”
She learned
through these meetings to separate a hateful viewpoint from the person
expressing it in order to gain perspective.
She also
learned that people fear people they don’t know, and generalizations can lead
people to dangerously demonize entire communities.
“The bad news
is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever.”
– J. Cole
If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours."
The
biggest change in my professional maturity came when I became Actually
Responsible for things. ... I gained a lot of appreciation for people who make
things, and lost a lot of tolerance for people who only pontificate. I found
myself especially frustrated with my past self, whose default was to complain
and/or comment, then wonder why things didn’t magically get better."
“Most people never pick
up the phone. Most people never call and ask. And that's what separates
sometimes the people who do things from those who just dream about them. You have
to act. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and
burn. With people on the phone or starting a company, if you're afraid you'll
fail, you won't get very far."
— Steve Jobs
If you worked
as hard at doing difficult things as you did avoiding them, you’d become
unstoppable.
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
