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

The number of people that are selling your garbage online is extremely high. Watch out for people that are selling you some get rich quick scheme. Your goal is to do the slow grind with things that are tried and true. Nothing is going to get you there quick.

The secret is to do the slow grind and put in the work every day. Increase the revenue that’s coming into your house by doing more work, and decrease the clients that your house is spending by shopping at Walmart.

Do this for several decades and good things will happen.

Buying a get rich quick scheme from some person you’ve seen online and expect to be ripped off.

social convention often keeps you from doing good things in your life. We often think that we can’t do something because it is what the norms are in our contacts. Who says that we can’t live very austerely such as living in a tent? Why is it socially acceptable to not live in a car? There’s many different things in our life that we do simply because it’s convention.

Once we start realizing that it’s all just convention beyond the small amount that we need, we give ourselves room to do really interesting and thought-provoking ideas that change the world.

New product of element just requires trial and error. However, the key is doing a trial and error over a very long time. Nobody is going to be willing to put in the effort in this new product development, and less you have an unbelievable desire to change the world.

The most important thing that you’ll learn as we grow older is that slow and steady gains are the only thing that really stick. Follow that learning curve over time to improve.

I caution against the direct one to one use between data that you see and what is really going on behind the scenes with performance metrics. The key is that data generating processes are not always obvious and require a lot of thought.

When you see high performance or low performance think about what is going on behind the scenes. Use some judgment to understand the situation.

The most important thing to remember is that you can’t judge yourself based on how other people perceive you. You have to have faith that you’re doing the right thing. As long as what you were doing is a noble and just mission, all of it will work out in the end.

And if it doesn’t, at least you know that you did the right thing given where you were at the time.

I talk about how individuals might be able to manage an organizational crisis at a university. I talk about the importance of owning a crisis and admitting that you do have a crisis at hand, and then excepting it. Once you admit that you have an organizational crisis in your dress and what is going on you’ll have far better and positive outcomes in the long run.

never think that you will be able to gain anything in the short term. You will gain a lot in decades if you just do the simple tried and true. How most people grow is by doing the same boring thing every year. In the short term it never feels like anything is happening.

In the long term, it’s almost miraculous. Think about the top performing companies on the stock market. They grow at 10% per year. This means if you made one dollar this year next year you will be making $11. Over the course of two years it feels like you haven’t done anything.

Over the course of 30 years the outcomes are miraculous.

be the kind of person that is willing to put in the work, be ingenious, and live a happy and healthy life.

When you play the long game, you realize that the key is to just do a good job and go home.

The rest of it takes care of itself in the long run.

you’re gonna want to give up. Every day you want to give up. In the moment you might compare yourself to others and feel that you’re somehow behind. You might even compare yourself against who you were yesterday, and you feel like you’re not much further ahead.

But that’s what you should not be thinking about. You’re not gonna be that much further than yesterday and other people do not affect you.

What you should be thinking about is whether you’re a little bit ahead from last year and the year before.

Once you realize the slow grind works, you can start appreciating your efforts. Consistency is the only thing that matters. Getting up and doing the same thing every day went well can you do when the Olympics, become an extraordinary business person, or change your own life.