Mr Werner Goeminne on the importance of passing on the right values
vutran | Sept. 27, 2020, 11:08 a.m.
"...The close relationship with my client and my teams are key for me. But let’s not forget that by my experience the most important things in life are your health, to give love and to be loved and to have the correct financial means inline with your life. Also important is to be assure to pass on the right values to your children and support them to the moment that they have to leave the parents nest and fly by their own. Age makes you more mature and putting things in different perspective and life has sometimes difficult curves that nobody can foresee..."
William James on the first step in overcoming misfortune
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:17 p.m.
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst."
— William James
Read More →Viktor E. Frankl on the right to do wrong
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:15 p.m.
"No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them."
— Viktor E. Frankl
Read More →Greg McKeown on thinking in term of "What trade-offs will I make?"
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:14 p.m.
"Stop thinking “How can I do it all?” Instead, choose the problem you’d focus on, and ask “What trade-offs will I make?” and “How can I go really big on this?” See trade-offs not as losses but as opportunities to find the highest-impact options."
— Greg McKeown in Essentialism
Greg McKeown on the fact of trade-offs
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:13 p.m.
"Trade-offs are a fact of life. You can do anything but not everything."
— Greg McKeown in Essentialism
Daniel Pink on the elusiveness of mastery
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 6:11 p.m.
“The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization.
In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.”
— Daniel Pink in Drive
Read More →On Knowledge Management
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.
1. Collect the dots
Daily knowledge enjoying through Audible, Blinkist, Reading Graphics, Amazon books, LinkedLearning/Pluralsight courses
2. Connect the dots
80% of information absorbed will slip away, daily review is needed at some spaced repetition system e.g. Readwise, MarginNote, Anki.
3. Apply the dots
Apply the newly acquired knowledge is the first return on investment of learning, aquiring knowledge for the sake of learning is great, but with practicality orientation is even better.
4. Strategizing the dots
From the trials and errors, experiences collected, arm the experience with good tooling, automation e.g. Omnifocus for Getting Things Done, Keyboard Maestro for muscle memory, Habitica for habit formation.
5. Intuiting the dots
Acquire 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, roughly 4 hours daily in 10 years.
— Be Better, to be updated 6-weekly
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