Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
Yet is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
Swami Vivekananda • Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
To improve the quality of life through work, two complementary strategies are necessary. On the one hand jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities—as do hunting, cottage weaving, and surgery. But it will also be necessary to help people develop autotelic personalities like those of Serafina, Joe, and
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
The term “autotelic” derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self, and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that is done not with the expectation of some future benefit, but simply because the doing itself is the reward. Playing the stock market in order to make money is not an autotelic experience; but playing it in
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We are all prisoners of our past to some extent. We bring our frame of reference, shaped by our unique combination of experiences, into any new role. But the most valuable leaders are those who can combine the scrappiness of a start‐up leader with the organizational and diplomatic discipline needed in a big company. Those who can scale up or scale
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learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
pitch framework.
Number one, you start by looking forward
and lead with your destination.
Number two, then you go to your backstory.
And number three, you round it all out for me
by connecting the dots and bringing it all together.
And the beauty of this strategy
is that you know, and you will practice,
and you will wrestle with your destination.
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Number one, you start by looking forward
and lead with your destination.
Number two, then you go to your backstory.
And number three, you round it all out for me
by connecting the dots and bringing it all together.
And the beauty of this strategy
is that you know, and you will practice,
and you will wrestle with your destination.
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The pitch framework: Destination, backstory, connect the dots - Pitching Yourself for Opportunity Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com
via Jodi Glickman (pitching yourself)
when humans are pressured into forming an opinion, they’ll often react by spouting babble that has little basis in fact or reason. Essentially, people tend not to have an opinion on something until they’re prompted for one, at which point they just hastily make one up. To make matters worse, humans don't like to change their opinion, as they think
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If we accept that what we see and know is inevitably flawed, we must strive to find ways to heighten that awareness—to fill in the gaps,
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ask propelling questions Propelling questions reset our status quo and encourage us to explore different ways of doing things. They often start with: How might we? How could I? What would happen if? These questions are designed to prevent our existing knowledge from limiting our ability to imagine new possibilities. They fast-forward us into the
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