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“We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.” — Louis L’Amour

https://blog.coleadership.com/self-sacrifice-is-not-how-you-grow-as-a-leader/
Embracing a growth mindset can sometimes be as simple as asking ourselves, “What can I learn from this experience?” Other times, it’s helpful to have a more guided set of questions to help us learn from difficult situations:
What’s holding me back from thriving in these situations? Being honest with ourselves by acknowledging where we are is the first step toward growth. Very often, the biggest obstacles to where we want to be is ourselves, and we need to start by naming any beliefs we hold about ourselves that are getting in the way.
What’s possible if I could handle these types of situations easily? This type of visioning into the future keeps us motivated in the day-to-day. It gives us a destination to work towards.
What has to be true for this discomfort to instead feel easy? Identifying the gap between where are we and where we want to be gives us a path from our starting point to our destination.
What help do I need to ask for? When we realize that sustainable leadership isn’t about self-sacrifice, then we also allow the possibility of others helping us on our journey. Asking for help can be hard — and another area for growth — and effective leaders ask for help.
What can I do to systematically improve my ability to handle these situations? We’re not looking for overnight changes, just how we can be even just 1% better every day — that’s a large part of why I turn my journaling into a daily practice.
Over time, as we keep learning and growing, those 1% improvements compound into differences that look like night and day. And what was once hard and uncomfortable can become easy and normal.

I feel so sad right now. Hay. I miss my kids. I miss my wife.

The reason most people get stuck in mediocrity is because they refuse to fail. The reason people refuse to fail is because they associate failure with defeat. Their fear of defeat paralyzes them to the point that they won’t move forward.

People are not finished when they’re defeated; they’re finished when they quit.

People equate failure with rejection but adversity is required if we want to succeed. We’re conditioned at a young age to be afraid of failure so we tiptoe into the world with the backbone of a wimp.

Source: This is the reason most people get stuck in mediocrity

Why does all of this matter? “A bachelor’s degree is the single most influential determinant in multigenerational change and ending the cycle of poverty,” Catherine Suitor, an administrator at Alliance, a network of Los Angeles high schools, told me. Jasmine Pachnanda, another Alliance administrator, had this to say about high-school graduates: “We need to make sure we are guiding them toward colleges where they are going to be successful.”

I hope you’ll read the piece — or play around with the graphics. And if you have suggestions for future higher education work we should do, we’re all ears. Drop me a line at leonhardt@nytimes.com.

Sum up

Here are the 4 irrational beliefs that cause you a lot of problems:

• “This shouldn’t be happening!”: Do you really expect to always get what you want? No. But if you really believed that you wouldn’t be shouting.
• “I must be perfect.”: Not possible. And it’ll kill you. You can control effort, not outcome. “I will do my best” is rational. “I must be the best” is not.
• “I should worry about this.”: Set a time to worry, to dispute, and to replace. This lets your brain know it doesn’t need to be reminding you 24/7.
• “It’s because of my past.”: If that’s really the case, then you should be in therapy. But your problems are rarely due to dire past traumas, they’re usually due to some outdated, irrational belief you still hold. Get a friend to help you dispute and replace.

Source: Changing these 4 beliefs will make you surprisingly happy

Ezra Klein: 2020 Democrats Need a Power Agenda, Not Just a Policy Agenda: “Concentration of power is the problem, so redistribution of power is the policy…. The Roosevelt Institute’s manifesto-ish new paper, ‘New Rules For The 21st Century: Corporate Power, Public Power, and the Future of the American Economy’…. Concentration of power is the problem, so redistribution of power is the policy…. TThe traditional economic analysis is that growth comes from innovation, innovation comes from competitive markets, and competitive markets come from government getting the hell out of the way. The Roosevelt authors say we’ve gotten that dead wrong. Yes, growth comes from innovation, and innovation comes from competitive markets, but competitive markets—be they economic or political—don’t come from a laissez-faire government. They come from policymakers breaking up concentrations of power, because the last thing power wants is competition…

For access denied issues when reading files in SQL Server, the service of SQL Server needs to have rights to the folder.
The user that should be searched:
NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER
Source:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/configure-file-system-permissions-for-database-engine-access?view=sql-server-2017

Interesting videos on investing.

The Memo with Howard Marks

Source: The Memo with Howard Marks

Our attendance at the recent Sima-Asean Agribusiness trade show in Bangkok confirmed that the farmers really loved their late king – King Bhumibol Adulyadej now known as King Rama IX. At the exhibit booth of the farmers’ cooperative, the portrait of the late king was prominently displayed.
Of course it is easy to understand why. We personally know that King Rama IX in his long reign as monarch, had helped farmers cooperatives in a big way. For instance, the biggest dairy co-op in Thailand, the Nong Pho Dairy Cooperative, has been under Royal Patronage. The king himself had put up about half of the capitalization of the cooperative that had a revenue of 1.7 billion baht during our visit some five years ago. He received annual dividends but we were told that he gave that to the co-op for the scholarship of the farmers’ children as well as for research and development (R&D) and extension services.

Source: The reason why the Thais really loved their King » Manila Bulletin Newsbit