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It wouldn't be better at all. What made it so great was it went straight to the point without filling with the random-bullshit-to-make-it-longer many blog posts have.
My point is that it's annoying to read #828282 on #F6F6EF. It's unpleasant contrast.
(5) Carve out clear areas of incompetence: Claim areas of incompetence! Admit it. what?
(5) Carve out clear areas of incompetence: Claim areas of incompetence! Admit it. what?
"1. Carve out your areas of incompetence: There was some debate about the downside of such a principle (ie: young girls jumping quickly to say "I'm bad at math" when they might have a tremendous, although dormant, capacity for mathematics) but overall there are some apparent benefits to this practice. One tangible example was given of a consultant who joined some firm and, rather than follow suit with his colleagues and claim he could handle any of the potential tasks thrown his way, he chose to be very upfront, to carve out his areas of incompetence, and tell the people he worked with exactly what he wasn't good at. The story goes that he was promoted faster than any of his peers because of this practice."
http://thepowerofsocialtechnology.blogspot.com/
It sounds this practice helped his boss delegate tasks better and helped convince his that he was honest.
I fully understand this is subjective anecdotal data and that it's quite possible I'm fooling myself though I don't believe I am. I've heard similar reports from others who have engaged deeply with various contemplative practices.
(5) Carve out clear areas of incompetence: Claim areas of incompetence! Admit it. what?
I've found that intensive practice of meditation over the last 3 years including both a daily practice and going on more extended retreats has fundamentally shifted the way in which I perceive and engage with moment to moment experience which has in turn steadily raised my baseline level of happiness. I fully understand this is subjective anecdotal data and that it's quite possible I'm fooling myself though I don't b…
I've found that intensive practice of meditation over the last 3 years including both a daily practice and going on more extended retreats has fundamentally shifted the way in which I perceive and engage with moment to moment experience which has in turn steadily raised my baseline level of happiness. I fully understand this is subjective anecdotal data and that it's quite possible I'm fooling myself though I don't b…
Do you fully subscribe to the notion of pure meditation, in that you should feel neither good nor bad? Once I understood what it meant to fully meditate; give up desires to love, build stuff I have a passion for, tackle challenging problems, I found that the proposed benefits of feeling not bad just didn't seem to weigh out.
Also, the idea of giving up desire, passion and things of this nature is often misunderstood. It is not necessary to give up ones humanity, emotions, loves or anything else. It's more about changing the way in which you perceive and engage with all experiences of life. It's not like I've stopped feeling bad. I feel bad plenty. It's more that feeling bad (and feeling good) is experienced in a very different way.
50% of it is determined by birt or genetics. But this is a misinterpretation of what broad heritability shows. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838534 In other words, it may be that there are environmental interventions that can HUGELY influence happiness that just haven't been tried yet. Better understanding of the development of happiness over the course of life, a line of research evidently being pursued by you…
The problem is that environment and its interventions can be a difficult variable to tie down in studies. Good call.
- think about the pleasant things in the past,
- focus on the nice experiences and senses in the present,
- and look forward to great things in the future.