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

Don’t invest in single stocks. More than likely going to get hurt when you do that and you can’t beat the market. You might think that you’re smarter than everybody else, but you’re not.

You talk about the importance of keep being in the grind even when you don’t feel like it and you don’t know what to do. Simply just keep moving forward and repeating what you’re doing. There’s no magic to it.

It’s important to plan and mitigate risk in your life. Remember everybody’s going to experience some negative things. You can either let the negative thing destroy your life or work towards mitigating its affects before it happens.

I talk about competitive analysis, and why I am not necessarily a big fan of it. I suggest that you’re better off focusing on what you can improve and identifying your unique traits that make you and your company different.

Just wanted to give you a little bit of encouragement and tell you that you’re doing a good job today. Keep it up keep going don’t let other people pull you down.

Take one more step every day and I’ll tell you actually get to where you want to go to. Nobody wants to hear that but that’s really what it is. Period.

I talk about the difference between what heirs mean and what failure means. I define errors. I also define failures. And I get some insight on what to think about with failure

I talk about how you have to stop thinking about beating the market. And start thinking about long-term investing that’s boring and non-sexy. Investing is boring.

I try to walk you through how do you know when you should quit. Question is challenging and there’s not a lot of definitive answers. It’s a personal choice, but there’s some great ways to think about how you know you should quit.

Talk about diversity and inclusion, in the importance of thinking about diversity and inclusion. I also chat a little bit about the challenges people face and why one should pursue diversity and inclusion.