10 Lessons from Einstein
by PAULO COELHO on MARCH 16, 2012
1. Follow Your Curiosity “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
2. Perseverance is Priceless “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
3. Focus on the Present “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
4. The Imagination is Powerful “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
5. Make Mistakes “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
6. Live in the Moment “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
7. Create Value “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
8. Don’t be repetitive “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
9. Knowledge Comes From Experience “Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
10. Learn the Rules and Then Play Better “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
via 10 Lessons from Einstein — Paulo Coelho’s Blog.
rePost::Genius
Genius
There is usually an inverse relationship between quality and quantity. Start speeding up that production line, and Lucy can’t keep up with the chocolates on the conveyor. Stuff starts to go sideways.
Telling your top thinkers to think harder, isn’t going to get you better thoughts, it’s just going to piss them off and probably get the opposite result.
On the other hand, if you know that you can turn the dial up at most sausage factories, and get well, more sausage.
Advice to those people who manage geniuses: Careful about fiddling with the knobs.
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The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership – William Deresiewicz
I hate reading stuff like this. It hurts too damn much.
Now that’s the third time I’ve used that word, concentrating. Concentrating, focusing. You can just as easily consider this lecture to be about concentration as about solitude. Think about what the word means. It means gathering yourself together into a single point rather than letting yourself be dispersed everywhere into a cloud of electronic and social input. It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don’t think this is a generational thing, TV and radio and magazines and even newspapers, too—are all ultimately just an elaborate excuse to run away from yourself. To avoid the difficult and troubling questions that being human throws in your way. Am I doing the right thing with my life? Do I believe the things I was taught as a child? What do the words I live by—words like duty, honor, and country—really mean? Am I happy?
via The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership – William Deresiewicz.
Thoughts on the Visible Self
I’ve found myself recently doing things to not seem weird. This is because I’ve been recently going to work early and leaving work late. The leaving work late isn’t a new thing but the going to work early is. I’ve also been moving around the different deployments we have because the different people I need to consult are at different clients.
I’ve found myself a little subconscious of late. It seems to be because I’ve not had enough time to scout the surroundings and the people because most of the free time I have I either spend working/studying/skype with the GF.
Not wanting to alienate other people I’ve turned into a bland version of me.
It’s like I’ve pushed through the lizard brain with respect to work that the lizard brain that concerns the social/visible self has taken hold of that aspect of me.
rePost::Dwyane Wade turns NBA All-Star Game into must-see competition – Ian Thomsen – SI.com
This deserves a recap from Bill Simmons!
In the bigger picture, the misjudgment of James was less important than the effort that was inspired by his Miami teammate. Wade didn’t win but he succeeded in making a statement of his own. It came at the expense of Bryant, who had nothing to say in victory. Instead he was being evaluated for headaches he suffered on this rare and meaningful night, when the world’s best players met to celebrate their talents and a game actually broke out.
via Dwyane Wade turns NBA All-Star Game into must-see competition – Ian Thomsen – SI.com.
rePost::How to change the world!::This column will change your life: small victories | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian
Almost 30 years ago, the organisational theorist Karl Weick made an observation that campaigners on everything from global warming to homelessness have been ignoring ever since. Sometimes, he pointed out, convincing the world that you’re fighting a Very Serious Problem actually makes it harder to solve. In a paper entitled Small Wins: Redefining The Scale Of Social Problems, Weick argued that perceiving challenges as huge made people seize up – disabling “the very resources of thought and action needed to change them”. The history of gay rights, feminism and environmentalism, he claimed, showed that pursuing little victories was the better plan. They delivered quick motivation boosts, triggering a snowball effect. Want to change the world? First, stop trying to change the world.
via This column will change your life: small victories | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian.
FML:: Migraine and Ton of Work Edition
I shouldn’t have opened my email. I was just supposed to email GTUG that my GDAC slot could be given to others because I am having migraines. I shouldn’t have checked my work email. This is becoming not fun, and when you feel underpaid the fun part is the only thing you are holding on to. This will probably not end well.
rePost::Jeremy Lin inspires “Linsanity”: Why this is both thrilling and worrisome. – Slate Magazine
For the first time in a week, I didn’t wish for Lin to be anything other than what he was—an utterly unique and galvanizing basketball force. I raised my arms in victory with everyone else in the packed bar and tried in vain to hold back a wide, beery smile. I don’t even like the Knicks.
How could anyone begrudge Lin his naked joy, his infectious effort? How could you not appreciate his poise in the face of this scrutiny, these expectations, the whole mass of us clawing at him across two continents? How could I ask any more from this 23-year-old kid? He had transported me back to that first game I ever watched him play, before I knew who he was or what he believed. I saw only a basketball player capable of dragging a bunch of scrubs to new heights, a point guard, a leader—one who happened to look just a little bit like me.
via Jeremy Lin inspires “Linsanity”: Why this is both thrilling and worrisome. – Slate Magazine.
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