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

I talk about how you invest in risky ventures properly in your life. Technology is one key area where lots of people get mixed up in how you actually invest.

I talk about the possible activities that you can do that will let you decent returns in the short-term. These tend to be dirty jobs that nobody wants to do and yet everybody needs to get them done. They tend to be very close to what you currently are doing right now. If you actually want to have long run sustainable returns you often have to get an education in a degree that has recognizable returns.

I talk about the challenges of judging risk in our lives and something bad happening. Problem is is that bad things don’t happen until it happens so we don’t have a good sense just how risky things are.

When you have autonomy at work we often celebrate as a positive. However, you often face a lot of challenges that can be very debilitating. Many people don’t realize how much that you actually absorb the negativity and challenges when you have a lot of autonomy in your work.

I just talk about how some days you feel exhausted at the end of the day and that’s actually a good thing. If you learn to appreciate when you feel tired.

I talk about the nature of some people to talk a really big game and talk things out like they know what they’re talking about, but you realize that they really don’t. It takes a long time to build a relationship and build trust. Take that time and be true to who you are.

Boring and doing ordinary plain things is really good for investing. Yet we don’t want to do that as human beings we want to look for the hero story or the quick win. You got a refrain from doing those quick wins and keep doing the boring.

I talk about the cost benefit analysis of being open and public on the Internet. I talk about what it feels like to be very transparent on an open forum like YouTube or podcasting. I talk about the benefits of being very open and the cost of being very open.

I talk about the challenges of conforming and nonconforming to society. This is important for innovating.

When I see blue skies in a January day I am reminded that it is going to be a very good day. I have romantic notions of white blue skies in the cold snow or crisp day actually means.