There’s overthinking and overacting. There’s a balance to find. The QUICKER you can test and tinker and iterate — the less you have to think. Why bother thinking — if problem naturally solves itself anyway. If the problem is NOT solving itself however — is when you obviously should stop and STRATEGISE. Repeating …
Author: Janus
No, We Are Not Better Than Our Modern World
-There’s the mediocre majority -The excellent minority -And the backwards minority -I believe the whole is pushed forward by the excellent minority -The excellent minority, the heroes, the precursors, the visionaries, the saints, are miles ahead -The mediocre majority is slightly behind the average of the whole, because the whole is pushed forward by the …
Cycle Of Delusion, Pessimism, Enlightenment
It’s a cycle: -delusion, ignorance, denial -acceptance, pessimism, desperation -growth, enlightenment Examples? –Dunning-Kruger effect –Gartner’s hype cycle –Four stages of competence -and most people you know Let’s explain the cycle: DELUSION, IGNORANCE, DENIAL -Anything you’re not knowledgeable about, don’t have significant experience at — you’re basically ignorant about -Since you’re ignorant — …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …