Long time back, one
of my team mates would say as a reason of coming late most mornings that he couldn’t
muster the energy in the morning, had to warm up and crank the engine. I had
joked with him to drink less the previous night, as a solution, nothing else is
needed to charge him up every morning. But today was one of those days for me.
I don’t laze around in the morning, I get into the rhythm and go through the
motions, so won’t be sloppy, but some days are like that. I searched around to
see what I can read which will put me in the mood and give me a little push – of
self reflection, new ideas and get the creative juices flowing a bit. Didn’t find
much, gave up and started from home for office. I had seen a photo of Amelia
Boone with her 70 year old dad liked by someone in my twitter feed and
remembered that I had downloaded her interview
in Farnam street podcast. I put that on and started driving to office. It
totally lifted my spirits, I was stopping multiple times on my way to make
notes and smiled at some points. It was such a treat. Her accent, passion/joy/smile/laugh
in the voice, made it all the more enjoyable. Host, Shane, was clearly enjoying
this conversation.
When I listen to
such podcasts, I get some connected ideas – some to try in my work, some for
personal improvement. Few notes from this podcast..
- She talked about stopping an reflecting
in the middle of a “death race”, on why is she doing this and about
quitting. Just focus on the next step – one step at a time – is a good
advice. Life lesson itself – focus on today and get through it.
- Focus on the process, the effort and
enjoy the journey. Mindset that results don’t matter.
- Trust your process, don’t be forced to
run someone else’s race – changing the pace in the initial part of the
race to catchup with someone, while knowing that you usually close well
and need to keep energy for that.
- You don’t have a right to something, don’t
be entitled. I feel people don’t have beginner mindsets these days, they approach
new job or new assignments with a sense of entitlement. Just because of
their years of experience and position, they should be at this level and
assuming they know it all. It is such a blocker for some people who could
have done great things to not even try something new or due to such entitled
attitude others don’t feel like giving them that chance.
- Don’t be too hard on myself, be kind with
myself. Be gentle. Self talk.
- Listening to same songs for 5 years,
same song on repeat – song becomes background music to thinking. I used to
study like this in college.
- Kids doing chores from age 6, earning
pocket money, working through high school and college. Sense of ownership.
I think India and East not having such a culture is causing our kids to have
a false sense of entitlement, not appreciate value of work and earning for
oneself.
- Wondered what would be my super
productive hours in day
- Her hack of putting an item in the TODO list that can be checked off is nice way to show progress to myself than staring at a full list
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