Dance in a Year
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Dance in a Year
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#2this is awesome - i think personally doing something totally out of my element (like dancing) crossed with learning something new (like dancing) might be double beneficial
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#3this is awesome - i think personally doing something totally out of my element (like dancing) crossed with learning something new (like dancing) might be double beneficial
... and it's fun too.
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#4Nice story, you dance well, but you should definitely choose better dance for your final dance in the video. What you showed looked like you really wanted to use bathroom but tehre wasn't any... Sorry about that, but otherwise, very nice.
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#5"When they score the winning point or sell their company for millions — you're seeing them in their moment of glory. What you don't see is the thousands of hours of preparation. You don't see the self doubt, the lost sleep, the lonely nights spent working. You don't see the moment they started. The moment they were just like you, wondering how they could ever be good."
This. Too often we hyperbolize the achievement at the expense of the work. Important to realize and appreciate that no one backs into success accidentally.
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#6Some of us continuously have to get better at new things or learn new things in our professional life, which might be making it harder to learn new things outside of work. There are so many things that I would like to invest a year to get better at, outside of work. For some reason, I cannot manage the process of simultaneously self learning new things in completely different domains. Either one or both of the self-learning threads get sloppy for me. Perhaps, because self-learning is also an exploratory process so it needs time investment in large chunks, or because our learning resources are limited.
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#7Some people don't like the style of dance in the video (especially on the YouTube video, but I suppose the lesson to be learnt here is to never read YouTube comments), but complaining about that is completely missing the point. The approach she used to get there works for any other style of dance and many other things in life. It's why I have five juggling balls...
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#8That was awesome all the way down...
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#9Some of us continuously have to get better at new things or learn new things in our professional life, which might be making it harder to learn new things outside of work. There are so many things that I would like to invest a year to get better at, outside of work. For some reason, I cannot manage the process of simultaneously self learning new things in completely different domains. Either one or both of the self-l…
I think you're creating a false dichotomy in your mind though, since a lot of these other things you learn will actually be part of your down-time so to speak and they will cross-pollinate more than you think.
In this video you see more than just learning to dance for example, you see someone going from being afraid to fully express herself to purposefully giving everything she's got in the moment; a very powerful skill to have.
I recently started a writing course for example and I've been finding parallels between writing and coding that've been incredibly helpful in starting to do persuasive copy in my startup.
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#10I can only agree with this post. When I got to college, I somehow ended up signing up for the Ballroom Dance Team (yes there is such a thing as competitive ballroom dancing). It's not something that I would have ever dreamt I would end up doing and people that know me usually have a hard time believing that I do ballroom. Nevertheless, it has been the single most fun activity I've ever participated in and it is a great way to get my mind off work.