TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. This past week, with the holidays and the new years, I naturally found myself spending more time with family. Interacting with family members as an adult is a great spiritual workout; you’re tested emotionally despite being an adult. what do I mean by this? Your experience may vary, but I personally hate it when I lose at something; it makes me feel less than and useless....
TL;DR “If you’re feeling like you need to protect yourself from something, I would ask two questions: (1) Has this person done something to indicate that they are a threat? What evidence do you have? (2) If there is no evidence, then figure out what has happened in your past that has reinforced that belief for you.” Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience A few major events happened this week: First, I envisioned and conceptualized the highest possible good I could do for myself, and put it on a small index card. The small index card makes it easy to always keep in the pockets of my pants Because the card is in my pocket, near my phone, I find that I check my card more than I check my phone This means that every time I read my hands inside my pants, and I physically feel my vision card, I start thinking about my highest good In theory, I become what I think about....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. Peace is experienced after tension, stress, and instability. Boredom is peace that has overstayed its welcome. How does this opinion explain how the world really works in a way that accurate, wholistic, and realistic? Given your thoughts and opinions, what practical actions can we take? Thanks for the advice, now how can I practically put this to use in a simple way for daily execution?...
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. Chat link: https://chat.openai.com/share/94e70c72-a1b4-456d-86e8-e2cf02312896 How does this opinion explain how the world really works in a way that accurate, wholistic, and realistic? Given your thoughts and opinions, what practical actions can we take? Thanks for the advice, now how can I practically put this to use in a simple way for daily execution?
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. It can be easy to get into the habit of consuming. We consume TV shows, food, space, speaking time, etc. Now I’m starting to think how I can contribute. For example, for each book I read, I should do an equal but opposite writing/speaking of my ideas. I’ve already started seeing the benefits of listening more than I speak in conversations, so I won’t add much else to that....
TL;DR If you want to learn how to work a room and attract/pull people towards you, start by listening to one person. Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? The guy who finds himself in a social setting, with a room full of people, and trying to figure out how to “be social” My Practical Experience So I’m at at this training course, where I don’t know anyone, and I decide to try to practice my social skills by talking to someone....
TL;DR Practice the habit of asking for what you desire. The world favors those who develope the habit of courage to ask for what they seek. Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? The meek, humble, goodie-too-shoes guy who does not want to hurt his self image or how others view him just by asking for what he really wants. My Practical Experience I’m creating this post more of an evidence of two of my principles:...
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. List of cognitive biases to study from Scott Adams’ book “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” Ambiguity effect In one sentence: We prefer options that are known/familiar to us The ambiguity effect is a cognitive bias that describes how we tend to avoid options that we consider to be ambiguous or to be missing information....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience Do everything, and learn as much as you can, so you can distil what you know into the most important 20% the returns the 80% of the results. I’d imagine that salsa dancing is very comlicated, but what if I became so good at it, that I could teach someone how to dance is just 10minutes?...