SUNSHINE in my SOUL
Occupation: Aspiring Entrepreneur
Mindset: best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them away
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indeed, demands – compromise. Perhaps that is
why the most effective persuaders seem to share
a common trait: they are open-minded, never dog-
matic. They enter the persuasion process prepared
to adjust their viewpoints and incorporate others’
ideas. That approach to persuasion is, interestingly,
highly persuasive in itself. When colleagues see
that a persuader is eager to hear their views and
willing to make changes in response to their needs
and concerns, they respond very positively. They
trust the persuader more and listen more atten-
tively. They don’t fear being bowled over or manip-
ulated. They see the persuader as flexible and are
thus more willing to make sacrifices themselves.
Because that is such a powerful dynamic, good per-
suaders often enter the persuasion process with
judicious compromises already prepared."
The most valuable skill anyone can learn in college is how to learn efficiently — how to figure out what you don’t know and build on what you do know to adapt to new situations and new problems….
Whether you learn how to learn is more a question of how fundamental and rigorous your education is than of what specific subject you study.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/postrel-how-art-history-majors-power-the-u-s-.html
"Strategy #1: Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy.
“The mistake most weak pianists make is playing, not practicing. If you walk into a music hall at a local university, you’ll hear people ‘playing’ by running through their pieces. This is a huge mistake. Strong pianists drill the most difficult parts of their music, rarely, if ever playing through their pieces in entirety.”
Strategy #2: To Master a Skill, Master Something Harder.
“Strong pianists find clever ways to ‘complicate’ the difficult parts of their music. If we have problem playing something with clarity, we complicate by playing the passage with alternating accent patterns. If we have problems with speed, we confound the rhythms.”
Strategy #3: Systematically Eliminate Weakness.
“Strong pianists know our weaknesses and use them to create strength. I have sharp ears, but I am not as in touch with the physical component of piano playing. So, I practice on a mute keyboard.”
Strategy #4: Create Beauty, Don’t Avoid Ugliness.
“Weak pianists make music a reactive task, not a creative task. They start, and react to their performance, fixing problems as they go along. Strong pianists, on the other hand, have an image of what a perfect performance should be like that includes all of the relevant senses. Before we sit down, we know what the piece needs to feel, sound, and even look like in excruciating detail. In performance, weak pianists try to reactively move away from mistakes, while strong pianists move towards a perfect mental image.”
“I had no choice, I just couldn’t get out of bed.”
“I had no choice, it was the best program I could get into.”
“I had no choice, he told me to do it…”
Really?
It’s probably more accurate to say, “the short-term benefit/satisfaction/risk avoidance was a lot higher than anything else, so I chose to do what I did.”
Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice. Difficult choices involve painful sacrifices, advance planning or just plain guts.
Saying you have no choice cuts off all options, absolves responsibility and is the dream killer.
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Daily chart: video games. The gaming industry is now more than twice the size of the recorded-music industry, nearly a quarter more than the magazine business and about three-fifths the size of the film industry. It is growing faster than any other form of media.
Doing What Others Won’t Do
This is the first part about ambition and hard work. If you want things in life (and this applies to way more than just careers) you need to be willing to work harder than the average person.
Doing What Others Can’t Do
The other part is about taking advantage of the opportunities that are exclusive to you. When you do this, you form a career path that is extremely hard to replicate, and as a result, making it easier to secure larger amounts of career capital for the same amount of effort.
-Scott H. Young
http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2010/11/08/why-we-fail-choosing/
3 ideas from James Altucher:
-As Wayne Gretzky says, “skate to where the puck is going”
-Nourish relationships. The size of your network increases your luck exponentially. But relationships take Time to nourish.
-Passion. Luck will ALWAYS follow your passion.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-create-your-own-luck/
