Category: personal growth
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Morning routines
At 4:45 am PST, I just finished listening to the book “what most successful people do before breakfast”, I felt inspired to This new habit is to write a single blog post for my future self before 9am.
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Seth Godin: Finding Your Passion – Love What You Do
” Do what you love” is for amateurs. “Love what you do” is the mantra for professionals.
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link: The No. 1 Lifelong Habit Of Warren Buffett: The 5-Hour Rule
https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/the-no-1-lifelong-habit-of-warren-buffett-the-5-hour-rule-57884dce03f3
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Pride, fear and stubbornness
This week I checked myself during a conversation where I let my own pride, fear and stubbornness get in the way of hearing the opinion of someone else. My fear of doing something uncomfortable. My pride of asking for help. My stubbornness in thinking that my way is the only correct path forward. I accept…
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Taking the long view
Yesterday, one member of my badminton group reinjured his knee which was already hurting from a skiing accident. He wanted to play yesterday because he loved the sport and thought he could still play and take it easy. Unfortunately, we pushed him pretty hard on court, and he collapsed in pain when he twisted his…
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Limited motivation
Recently I have been running dry on my personal motivation on important projects such as transcribing Impactful Engineer. I have not been able to diagnose what the root cause is. Some possible reasons could be Transcription is not what motivates me and hence I’m putting it off The overall project and goals is not current…
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Thank You For Your Feedback
This week I practiced what Lyn Campbell recommended during our interview on Impactful Engineer (read here). I asked for feedback from someone I work with. I asked her how she thinks I can improve in meetings. She generously took the time to give me the following feedback During one of our meetings about a previous…