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

I marvel in how importance social status is in our world. We have the ability to create unprecedented wealth, but many of us forgo that opportunity to improve our current social status.

it’s important to think about your decisions of why you don’t actually want to build more wealth. Remember you have to intentionally control the things in your life, and your financial life it’s just one small aspect. But it requires you to take charge.

Mastery requires a lot of mundane work. You have to keep repeating the same thing day in a day out and most people will give up.

The name of the game is not hustle, but just keeping busy and keeping active. Remember there is a lot to life and having different moments of doing different things it’s actually quite enjoyable. Focus on just keeping busy rather than grinding it out.

projects and the things that you pursue are always more complicated when you actually do it. Most people assume that things are easy, but just try to do it and see what happens. It’s an interesting activity and you realize it is a lot more complicated than he ever thought.

I encourage you to think about what you’re going to do, but then execute as quick as possible. There’s nothing that is going to kill a project quicker than people thinking about all of the potential problems that you can experience before you even start. You simply have to jump into it blindly and disregard all of the problems that you might experience. Build a dang thing and then figure out how to mitigate the problems that you actually are experiencing.

I talk about how complicated and difficult most things are in life once you actually start doing it. From the outside it looks like it’s very simple, but when you actually start executing you realize it is a lot more difficult than you’ve ever imagined.

The answer to how to become an effective professor is I don’t know. I don’t think that there’s any secret, and you simply just have to do it overtime.

I talk about how you’re gonna feel when you first start something and you innovate in your life. Remember you’re always gonna feel silly whenever you first start some thing. That feeling will never go away. So don’t worry about how you feel and just simply jump into it.

You will get ghosted in management, and just assume it’s actually gonna happen. there are many reasons why people might disappear from the project, and it’s likely for reasons would never expect. You can’t plan for it, but just assume it’s gonna happen.