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Callard distinguishes between aspiration and ambition. Some of the people taking the music-appreciation class are ambitious; they enrolled not because they aspire to love classical music but because the class is an easy A. From the first day, they know what they value: their grades. (“Turning ambition into aspiration is one of the job descriptions of any teacher,” Callard notes.) The ambitious students find it easy to explain why they’re taking the class. But the aspirants must grow comfortable with a certain quantity of awkward pretense. If someone were to ask you why you enrolled, you would be overreaching if you said that you were moved by the profound beauty of classical music. The truth, which is harder to communicate, is that you have some vague sense of its value, which you hope that some future version of yourself might properly grasp.

Source: The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker

Guaranteed prescriptions for misery:

– Substance Abuse
– Being unreliable
– Resentment
– Envy
– Seeking vengeance
– Inability to learn from the mistakes of others
– Inability to handle failure

What am I missing?

— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) January 23, 2019

Guaranteed prescriptions for misery: – Substance Abuse – Being unreliable – Resentment – Envy – Seeking vengeance – Inability to learn from the mistakes of others – Inability to handle failure What am I missing?

Things that reduce the odds of long-term success:

+ Saying yes to too many things.
+ Making excuses.
+ Staying up late.
+ Eating poorly.
+ Checking email first thing in the AM.
+ Working more to fix being busy.
+ Buying things you don't have the money for.

What am I missing?

— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) January 22, 2019

Things that reduce the odds of long-term success: + Saying yes to too many things. + Making excuses. + Staying up late. + Eating poorly. + Checking email first thing in the AM. + Working more to fix being busy. + Buying things you don’t have the money for. What am I missing?

Below, Vaden shares the 4 questions that time multipliers ask of the items on their to-do lists in order to free up their hours in the future:

Question #1: Can I eliminate this task?

There’s a simple truth: “Anything that we say no to today creates more time for us tomorrow,” says Vaden. When we do say yes to unnecessary duties, we’re usually acting out of guilt — we’re worried about disappointing other people.
Vaden wrestled with this himself until, he recalls, “in one of the interviews I conducted with a multiplier, they said something that changed my life. They said, ‘Rory, it’s futile to go through life trying to never say ‘no’. What you have to realize is that you are always saying ‘no’ to something because anytime you say ‘yes’ to one thing, you are simultaneously saying ‘no’ to an infinite number of others.’”

Question #2: If I can’t eliminate this task, can I automate it?

Online bill paying is one example. But what other obligations could you deal with today so they’re already done tomorrow? For instance, are there items you purchase on a regular basis — pet food, groceries, prescriptions — and could you have them automatically sent to you? Or, are there semi-annual appointments you have — such as getting your teeth cleaned or your hair cut — that you might book in one swoop instead of having to call and schedule them one by one?
And if you’re deterred by the initial time investment or learning curve that this entails, just think about your past year and calculate how many hours you spent, say, buying pet food.

Question #3: Can it be delegated, or can I teach someone else how to do this?

While many of us are fine with offloading the personal tasks that we’re not so crazy about — whether it’s shoveling snow or caulking the bathtub — we can find ourselves more resistant about delegating duties at work.
“You say, ‘Well, they just can’t do it as well as I can,’” says Vaden. “And that may be true once or twice but … if you think longer-term, you realize they’ll be able to master the task just like you did.”

Question #4: Should I do this task now, or can I do it later?

Vaden calls this strategy “procrastinate on purpose.” However, this isn’t procrastination as we typically think about it — you know, endlessly delaying an activity and feeling lousy about it. Instead, procrastinating on purpose is about consciously deciding that we will do a certain thing later, not just letting it fall between the cracks.
Vaden calls intentional procrastination “a virtue.” He says, “There’s a difference in waiting to do something that we know we should be doing … versus waiting to do something because we’re deciding that now is not the right time.”
When you procrastinate on purpose, you’ll eventually decide whether to eliminate, automate or delegate the task, or you may find that it’s risen in significance, importance or urgency, compelling you to do it.

Source: Multiply time by asking 4 questions about the stuff on your to-do list |

“Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.”
+Martin Heidegger

It’s not the industry or product you’re looking for.In my career, I thought I was looking for experience in digital marketing and a change of industry.What I figured out last Friday was that it was leadership I was looking for. Every day I was getting up excited to go to work. I couldn’t figure out why. It took a lot of reflection and discussion with mentors to figure out why.

Source: The Realization It Was Leadership You Were Chasing All Along.

Bataan Death March Series
3 Season
24 episodes
1 season per day of death March.
Huk Series
1 season per place
1-2 episodes per legendary Huk

Can’t be denied. A growing pit of doubt.
With the things turning out. What is the point of squat.

Katipunan
Ilustrado
Death March
Huk
Will expound later

“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus