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 …
Tag: Success
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 …
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 …
Competition Is A Lie
Competition is a lie. Saying “I had competition” is identical to saying “it’s not my fault”. Which is identical to not taking responsibility. “Zero-sum-games” are a lie too. Games in which you gain at the expense of others are no games worth playing. Might as well not exist. Games in which there’s a hierarchy, …
A Professional Solves Problems Calmly and Quietly and Efficiently
There’s the problem and there’s the solution The problem is a tension which necessitates a release. The problem entails solution. Direct or indirect. Sometimes you eradicate the problem and sometimes you accept it. But a certain attitude must be arrived at Problem evokes motivation which results in pursuit of the solution. This motivation can come …
Social Expansion
Men want to obtain value and preserve value. Same is true in the social context: When interacting with the world — you want to OBTAIN VALUE and PRESERVE VALUE. How do we go about it? By some time in our lives we develop some default STRATEGY: —one which usually errs on the side of …
Mediocrity and Competence
Your boss is a mediocrity that is hopefully at least competent. Your employee is a mediocrity that will hopefully do what he’s told, and do it at an acceptable level. And whoever you wouldn’t employee is a mediocrity that is also useless, or even destructive. There are great man out there of course, but …
What If I Murdered You
What if i murdered you if you didn’t do your best today you know there are things you want and do and there are things you say you want, some of the things you say you want you couldn’t even do – and you’re just saying you want to do them as a little …
You Really Have No Time To Wait For Help
If you solve your problems IN SPITE OF RESISTANCE — then you solved your problems PERIOD (resistance or not) If you don’t solve your problems however — then there’s NO GUARANTEE they will ever be SOLVED — even if the resistance is alleviated There is only now Right now you have a problem Right …
LOVE Saying “I WAS WRONG”
What if you were paid for each time you found you were wrong? e.g. $1000 for finding something you were wrong about. another $1000 for finding something else you were wrong about. imagine you fell in love with saying “I WAS WRONG” Can you imagine this making your life better? Your model of reality …