R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

Doing things that are important in your life require you to be humble and admit when you’re wrong.

The problem is is that you also have to be assertive and keep going forward even though people are picking apart all of the things that are wrong with your idea and who you are.

Negativity has more influence in your decisions that positive comments.

Your goal is to be like a slippery snake where are you listen to those comments and thoughts, but you keep going in the direction that you want to go to anyways.

Don’t stop when you get thrown negativity!

Realize that those negative comments are nothing more than comments and words.

If they actually knew, they would actually be doing it themselves.

People that will throw negativity at you are sitting there watching and eating popcorn, and not actually doing it.

There’s a difference.

Everything I have learned about #strategy seems wrong.

To me, planning and thinking about the future really does not fit very well with the story of my life and most people that I know.

I don’t know anyone who sits down and has meetings about their future. I don’t know anybody that sits down and drafts a mission statement every decade.

The story that works the best is the story about just getting up and trying every day.

You learn. You work. Then you learn some more.

How you feel seems to matter more than a #strategic plan.

Every day you do that you realize it I’m not getting that far, but then over several decades to look at you realize that you actually went pretty far.

Strategy is not about thinking of where you’re going in the future, but working towards what you’re doing every day no matter what.

Keep working. Keep trying.

People that are not nice exist in this world. You need to realize that those people don’t care anyways. You need to simply keep walking forward and living a happy and healthy life despite the things that happen in your world.

Your goal is to have the confidence to be happy and healthy no matter if people are sucking the life out of you. Doesn’t matter whether this is in academia or in the business world your goal is to live a happy and healthy life and that’s it. It should not be to impress other people. They will never be impressed anyways

You know it’s right.

Why are you letting other people push you around, despite the fact that you know it’s right?

Stay true to what you believe is right.

Let the rest of the world come to see that what you’re doing is right.

If they never recognize and see what you’re doing, screw ‘em. They were never going to be supportive in the first place.

You have to have the fortitude to do what’s right and not get pushed around by others.

You have to do it for you, and no one else.

Nobody is ever going to accomplish anything amazing if you don’t stand up for what is right.

You are remarkable, and if other people are not going to be supportive, keep doing your thing.

You are good enough.

Imagine as if you worked at Disney and your job is to make everybody else feel special and that they matter.

People that work at Disney feel the same grind as you do, but it’s their goal to make everybody else feel a magical experience.

Why can’t you do the same? Why can’t you trick your mind that you are making the world magical?

Why not imagine that it’s your goal to make your own life a magical experience, and make those other people around you have a magical experience. In your mind you might be doing the grind, but for everyone else, including you are working on creating magic.

When you get up every day and do your thing, it is your job to help others, including yourself.

ing magic.

In order to mitigate downside risk and take advantage of upside potential, look at how you can diversify across all aspects of your life. This might require you to do things that are unusual and don’t fit within the norm.

Normal people don’t think about the future.

However, to make sure that you take advantage of all possible routes in the future when things change, look to see it how you can diversify what you currently have today.

When you have a partner, it is important to slow things down to do well. Take your time to have many conversations before you make any large purchases in your life. Have conversations that are awkward and that you don’t like having. The more conversations that you have the more likely you’re going to figure out what to do next.

Start telling your story online.

You have access to opportunities that nobody else has ever had until the last decade.

Leverage the most important tool that has occurred since the Gutenbergprinting press.

Most of us don’t realize it, but we are living through one of the most revolutionary moments in history. We are living through a moment in time where content production is becoming democratized.

Why not start telling your story? People are interested in who you are no matter what you think of yourself.

You just have to get over thinking that you’re not good enough, and nobody’s interested in what you have to say.

They are interested.

You just don’t think so.

We often think that we have to make large #investments in one shot. We need to buy a #house, purchase a car, or change jobs. In #business, you may launch a product, buy another company, or build a plant.

However, this often involves a tremendous amount of uncertainty, and these investments might be difficult to recoup because of the transaction costs involved in these large purchases. Many of these purchases are irreversible.

Before you do one of these major decisions, consider testing the market to see what is going to go on. Look for ways that you can scale back that major purchase and try that alternative.

See if you actually benefit from that alternative.

For example, before moving to a large city, consider living there for a week or two. Before you get married, consider living together for a year. Before you purchase a house in a different neighborhood, consider renting a home in that neighborhood.

The goal is to gather information about whether you actually like this alternative.

See if the market actually cares, and you care about the market.

It’s often not clear about what you should do, but by testing alternatives, you often get a great deal of information that you could not do without that test.

Don’t be afraid to test the market with something that is rinky dinky. In fact, what you should be looking for is testing the market with rinky dinky. It’s the cheapest way to test and to actually get some #feedback.

Encourage you to get more sleep on a daily basis. Don’t feel guilty if you need that sleep.