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

Think about the things in your life that you’re just doing because of impression management. Is it OK to do impression management? Absolutely.

But, you have to learn to control it so it doesn’t get away from you. It’s easy to get caught up in the competition of life, and we all struggle with it.

It’s OK to realize that many things in life actually do not improve with experience. Not everything is malleable and not everything can be learnt

That’s where you have to learn to love yourself regardless of the fact that known everything can be learnt, or that you will change.

Have a healthy dose of walking past people that do not want to support you in the first place.

They know that they can support you, but they choose not to.

Remember that.

You just smile and nod as you walk past in your journey in life. You can accomplish a lot, with a wink and a smile.

You will mess up, and things will not work out as planned. If you assume this is the case, you will be a lot more humbler about the future.

Always bet on the fact it’s not gonna work out, but work towards the fact that it might.

do things in your life that other people won’t understand and have no economic value in other peoples lives.

Most things that matter in our lives would not be considered rational to anybody else. Those are the little things and big things that allow you to get up every morning to do the rational things in your life.

I’m excited to talk about some of the interesting features that we are currently working on with the R3ciprocity platform for 2024.

How do you deal with an #academic #career that is unfair?

How do you deal with a career where you will inevitably push a rolling stone uphill?

You can either accept that you are a #failure, or you can either try to fight the system.

I choose a third alternative.

I choose to focus on how I can feel grateful for myself and other people near to me. I choose to encourage other people that are going through the same feelings of failure everyday.

I choose to ignore outcomes as much. I never want to overvalue the success, because the failure hurts more.

Learn to laugh at the silliness of pushing a rolling stone up a hill, just to have it roll back onto you.

Learn to smile at those who idolize the stone.

It is just a stone.

You never push that stone to the top, but you can laugh as you try.

Enjoy marching uphill today. 😂

If you want positive #change in your life, it often requires a great deal of effort. It requires collective agreement that you are going to put an effort to do the challenging thing that you’re thinking about.

Change is not an easy thing, and it requires you to be uncomfortable with uncertainty.

If you want to change to happen, you WILL have to make it happen. If you don’t, nothing will happen.

How can I make others feel better inside?

Identifying the effects of education is very difficult, and I would be skeptical, if anybody outlines that they can see a one-to-one relationship between education and performance.

What does this mean? For many people education is going to be a bad idea, however, for some people it’s going to be immensely important.

We will just never know who will actually benefit from education, and who will not.

And, you’ll never know at what point education is actually gonna matter for you.