Lifestyle

Ability to Listen vs Ability to Understand

There’s ability to listen and there’s ability to understand.   Ability to listen is how well you listen. Ability to understand is how much you understand.   Most people have MEDIOCRE ability to listen. “OK” is good. “GREAT” ability to listen is someone who wants to hear you EVEN if he doesn’t understand. “GREAT” ability …

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Lifestyle World

About Travelling

The value of travelling is not travelling. The value of travelling is THE NEW.   The value of THE NEW is that the new is the promise of growth, evolution. You can’t have growth without changing, without developing into something different, something new indeed. On a deeper level — the value of the NEW is …

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Philosophy Spirituality

Ego is Stagnation

The moment you view yourself as more than no one is the moment you hindered your growth.   Growing is trying and failing, Learning is not knowing,   We think we understand this but we don’t. We “humble up” if necessary — until it becomes too threatening to humble up, Too threatening to our self-image. …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Failure Is Real, Success Is Real

Let’s define success as: *tangibly doing a little better at something specific*, let’s define failure as: *failing to do better whatsoever at something specific*,   Success is not merely “doing better”. Anything can be defined as better or worse. You have to be specific. This is the trap of the “conventionally successful”. They think they …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Time Mastery

Time mastery is mastering the use of time. Mastering the use of time means getting the most out of the time that you are given.   Getting the most out of time you are given requires two conditions: -Understanding the VALUE of time -Ability to manage the time-resource   The value of time is equal …

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World

Empowering Leadership

It’s easy to lead when everyone follows, It’s hard to lead when some fail to follow.   It’s hard to cut the weakest link, But it’s not that hard. What’s even harder is to transmute this inadequacy into competence   Now learning is easy — until it gets hard. Teaching is easy — until it …

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Lifestyle

You’re Forgetting Too Much

I do believe that FORGETFULNESS is the obvious natural ABSORBING BARRIER It’s just that for absolute majority of people the primary hindrances, even before memory, is simply: -not doing enough (doing in general, and doing new things, iterating) -blindness: some inborn (biases), most learned (einstellung effect, ego, sunk cost, it’s a looooong fucking list) But …

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Philosophy Spirituality World

Is World Competition or Cooperation?

You can compete or you can cooperate. You can look at the world and see competition — or you can look at the world and see cooperation. To see the world as competition is called “competitive frame”. To see the world as cooperation is called “collaborative frame”.   The world can be competitive or the …

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Philosophy World

Quality vs Utility

There’s quality, and there’s impact, utility. The two are rarely synonymous.   Quality is more of an ideal, idea, concept, Doesn’t mean it’s abstract, it could be real, tangible, But it is not necessarily scalable, Therefore utility is limited Therefore it’s impact is limited It’s immediate impact is limited.   It’s long term impact could …

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