Whatever thoughts that come effortlessly to you are mostly useless. As they are generated by the brain to mostly help you preserve you. We need to focus on on what we need to do in any situation ignoring interfering thoughts or emotions which on most occasions are unhelpful and when they are, aren't predictable.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
It doesn't matter
Whatever you are feeling doesn't matter nor whatever happens to you. What matters is what you do to accomplish whatever you have set out to based on your requirements and need. As you will not get help using your emotions but what you do inspite of them.
Friday, April 25, 2014
From "Bounce"..
"...Suppose that I am a top sprinter, and I go away and adopt the principles of purposeful practice and, as a result, reduce my time by 10 per cent.
When I come to run my next race, I will zoom past many of my competitors. This is great news for me, but it is very bad for them. My relative position has improved as a result of my new training regime, but at their expense.
The net ‘benefit’ across the group is zero. Now suppose I adopt the principles of purposeful practice not in sport but in the workplace, and as a consequence, increase my productivity and salary by 10 per cent. I have personally benefited from my new work ethic, but now I can also spend 10 per cent more on groceries, running shoes , haircuts, and so on, benefiting all those with whom I do business.
I have improved my life, but I have also improved the lives of those around me.Economics, to use the jargon, is a win-win game. Precisely the same insight applies if we widen the perspective.
Suppose I am a runner, and that all my competitors join me in adopting the principles of purposeful practice, and that we all improve our times by 10 per cent.
Our relative positions in the next race will be precisely the same as they ever were. The net benefit, once again, is zero.
But if everyone applies purposeful practice in the workplace, improving all-round productivity by 10 per cent, the gains to society are huge and, over time, cumulative. Economics is a game where everyone can win simultaneously: productivity gains allied to trade generate further productivity gains and more trade, and so on. Win-win-win. This analysis goes to the heart of this chapter, and reveals its central irony.
It is only in sport that the benefits of purposeful practice are accrued by individuals at the expense of other individuals, and never by society as a whole. But this is precisely the area in which purposeful practice is pursued with a vengeance, while it is all but neglected in the areas where we all stand to benefit...."
When I come to run my next race, I will zoom past many of my competitors. This is great news for me, but it is very bad for them. My relative position has improved as a result of my new training regime, but at their expense.
The net ‘benefit’ across the group is zero. Now suppose I adopt the principles of purposeful practice not in sport but in the workplace, and as a consequence, increase my productivity and salary by 10 per cent. I have personally benefited from my new work ethic, but now I can also spend 10 per cent more on groceries, running shoes , haircuts, and so on, benefiting all those with whom I do business.
I have improved my life, but I have also improved the lives of those around me.Economics, to use the jargon, is a win-win game. Precisely the same insight applies if we widen the perspective.
Suppose I am a runner, and that all my competitors join me in adopting the principles of purposeful practice, and that we all improve our times by 10 per cent.
Our relative positions in the next race will be precisely the same as they ever were. The net benefit, once again, is zero.
But if everyone applies purposeful practice in the workplace, improving all-round productivity by 10 per cent, the gains to society are huge and, over time, cumulative. Economics is a game where everyone can win simultaneously: productivity gains allied to trade generate further productivity gains and more trade, and so on. Win-win-win. This analysis goes to the heart of this chapter, and reveals its central irony.
It is only in sport that the benefits of purposeful practice are accrued by individuals at the expense of other individuals, and never by society as a whole. But this is precisely the area in which purposeful practice is pursued with a vengeance, while it is all but neglected in the areas where we all stand to benefit...."
Monday, April 21, 2014
Resistance blog post
http://www.managementpsychology.com/articles/do-the-work-overcoming-resistance/
Saturday, April 19, 2014
All My Insights - I
1. The greatest truth about success is that its subjective. The one made up by you is the best one and will yield you success and may be you already have one truth for yourself.
2. Achievement is usually a boring process of work, review, improve and repeat with relentless focus.
3. Again, achievement is solely yours to define.
4. All the answers and solutions to your problems are probably with yourself.
5. But, we don't want to reflect on them because of various reasons.
6. Much like we all want to quench our thirst with water but often pick a cola drink or two to do that, feel unsatisfied yet again pick that cola up.
7. Luck may be the number one reason why some people end up with richer, better lives than others but for those who don't, working hard with relentless focus on achieving life goals is the best option to at-least experience joy of achievement,celebration,exhilaration and/or pleasant exhaustion available to anyone with an able body.
8. Everything in the world screams attention and its up to us how we allot our attention.
9. There is no one secret key or phrase or image or any system that can make us do things which we should do to achieve.
10. If there is one, then that is the ability to sit on a daily basis for at-least few hours working on the things that we want to achieve day after day without getting distracted, bored, exhausted or giving up till it is achieved.
11. And, equally important may be the skill to decide what are the things one would want to achieve.
12. After that, it is simple. Work till you achieve, then repeat for more achievements.
13. The biggest struggle is to work on a daily basis with conscious attention on completing tasks necessary to achieve.
14. Achievements should be best defined as tasks whose completion is totally dependent on our work.
2. Achievement is usually a boring process of work, review, improve and repeat with relentless focus.
3. Again, achievement is solely yours to define.
4. All the answers and solutions to your problems are probably with yourself.
5. But, we don't want to reflect on them because of various reasons.
6. Much like we all want to quench our thirst with water but often pick a cola drink or two to do that, feel unsatisfied yet again pick that cola up.
7. Luck may be the number one reason why some people end up with richer, better lives than others but for those who don't, working hard with relentless focus on achieving life goals is the best option to at-least experience joy of achievement,celebration,exhilaration and/or pleasant exhaustion available to anyone with an able body.
8. Everything in the world screams attention and its up to us how we allot our attention.
9. There is no one secret key or phrase or image or any system that can make us do things which we should do to achieve.
10. If there is one, then that is the ability to sit on a daily basis for at-least few hours working on the things that we want to achieve day after day without getting distracted, bored, exhausted or giving up till it is achieved.
11. And, equally important may be the skill to decide what are the things one would want to achieve.
12. After that, it is simple. Work till you achieve, then repeat for more achievements.
13. The biggest struggle is to work on a daily basis with conscious attention on completing tasks necessary to achieve.
14. Achievements should be best defined as tasks whose completion is totally dependent on our work.
Two Articles
http://99u.com/articles/7094/The-Future-of-Self-Improvement-Part-I-Grit-Is-More-Important-Than-Talent
http://99u.com/articles/7095/the-future-of-self-improvement-part-ii-the-dilemma-of-coaching-yourself
http://99u.com/articles/7095/the-future-of-self-improvement-part-ii-the-dilemma-of-coaching-yourself
Article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Steven Pressfield
The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who understood how impossibly arduous were the tasks they had set themselves would have pulled the plug before he even began.
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.How do we achieve this state of mind?
By staying stupid. By not allowing ourselves to think.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
Don’t think. Act.
We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.
Be Stubborn
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness. I like the idea of stubbornness because it’s less lofty than “tenacity” or “perseverance.” We don’t have to be heroes to be stubborn. We can just be pains in the butt. When we’re stubborn, there’s no quit in us. We’re mean. We’re mulish. We’re ornery.
We’re in till the finish.
We will sink our junkyard-dog teeth into Resistance’s ass and not let go, no matter how hard he kicks.
Blind Faith
Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.
Resistance wants to rattle that faith. Resistance wants to destroy it. There’s an exercise that Patricia Ryan Madson describes in her wonderful book, Improv Wisdom. (Ms. Madson taught improvisational theater at Stanford to standing-room only classes for twenty years.)
Here’s the exercise: Imagine a box with a lid. Hold the box in your hand. Now open it. What’s inside?
It might be a frog, a silk scarf, a gold coin of Persia. But here’s the trick: no matter how many times you open the box, there is always something in it.
Ask me my religion. That’s it. I believe with unshakeable faith that there will always be something in the box.
Passion
Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think that you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true. Fear saps passion. When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
Article for Motivation - I
http://99u.com/articles/7198/how-goals-and-good-intentions-can-hold-us-back
Steven Pressfield
"...The addict is the amateur; the artist is the professional.
Both addict and artist are dealing with the same material, which is the pain of being human and the struggle against self-sabotage. But the addict/amateur and the artist/professional deal with these elements in fundamentally different ways.
(When I say “addiction,” by the way, I’m not referring only to the serious, clinical maladies of alcoholism, drug dependence, domestic abuse and so forth. Web-surfing counts too. So do compulsive texting,twittering and Facebooking.)
Distractions.
Displacement activities.
When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling. We enact the addiction instead of the calling. Why?
Because to follow a calling requires work. It’s hard. It hurts. It demands entering the pain-zone of effort, risk, and exposure.
So we take the amateur route instead. Instead of composing our symphony, we create a “shadow symphony,” of which we ourselves are the orchestra, the composer, and the audience. Our life becomes a shadow drama, a shadow start-up company, a shadow philanthropic venture..."
Both addict and artist are dealing with the same material, which is the pain of being human and the struggle against self-sabotage. But the addict/amateur and the artist/professional deal with these elements in fundamentally different ways.
(When I say “addiction,” by the way, I’m not referring only to the serious, clinical maladies of alcoholism, drug dependence, domestic abuse and so forth. Web-surfing counts too. So do compulsive texting,twittering and Facebooking.)
Distractions.
Displacement activities.
When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling. We enact the addiction instead of the calling. Why?
Because to follow a calling requires work. It’s hard. It hurts. It demands entering the pain-zone of effort, risk, and exposure.
So we take the amateur route instead. Instead of composing our symphony, we create a “shadow symphony,” of which we ourselves are the orchestra, the composer, and the audience. Our life becomes a shadow drama, a shadow start-up company, a shadow philanthropic venture..."
Friday, April 18, 2014
hard things about hard things
"..I learned one important lesson: Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same. … I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.." - Ben Horowitz
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