Amit Cohen
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Amit Cohen
Journaling prompts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGTXsusX6Q
1. What would you do if money was no object? If I had all the money in the world, how would I use my talents to serve others?
2. What would you like people to say at your funeral? To what extent am I living in alignment with that?
3. What sort of ... do you want to be? How do you make t
... See moreWhen I was at Google, my very first promotion from Eng 1 to Eng 2 got rejected after 2 years in the role. The feedback from the promo committee was “work on more impactful projects”. I was disappointed, but I also learned that “I’ll just do what I’m told and I’ll get promoted” is simply not true. I needed to rethink my approach.
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Impact is so much more important than doing your job right. Based on a LinkedIn post by Irina Stanescu
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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Optimistic vs pessimistic approach to life
“I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that
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“I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to
... See moreThe purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”— Jordan Peterson