“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn
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Bruce Lee
Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stayContinue reading “Bruce Lee”
Top Skills by WEF
Top Skills WEF
Clay Christensen
How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston 1. Can you explain why your life is the way it is today? 2. Can you predict what will happen in your life if you continue to do what you are now doing? RIP Professor Christensen, thank you for all the great work!
The Road Less Traveled
Discipline = Delaying gratification + Acceptance of responsibility + Dedication to truth + Balancing We have to face our problems and suffer to get better and grow. Legitimate suffering involved in facing and tackling problems hone our character and help us to build strength to progress in life.
Professionalism in Investment Management
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. – Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor (1949)
Walking & Thinking
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you mustContinue reading “Walking & Thinking”
I have failed
I took a test today and I have failed. It hurts, as I didn’t sleep the night before and spent all night cramming. Perspective and feedback: Don’t cram the night before, work hard and hone your skills days, weeks, and months in advance so when it’s the crunch time you’re confident. Don’t let this everContinue reading “I have failed”
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Great Work = Natural Ability + Determination + an obsessive interest in a particular topic A great article by Paul Graham: “When you look at the lives of people who’ve done great work, you see a consistent pattern. They often begin with a bus ticket collector’s obsessive interest in something that would have seemed pointlessContinue reading “The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius”
Michaelangelo
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo FYI, Michaelangelo created his masterpiece sculpture David way before he turned 30 years old.
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