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

even on the days when you don’t feel like you’re doing OK, you just show up and put in that motion. Just showing up, is better than when everybody else does. You don’t have to go rigorous every day, you just have to show up.

We need to start embracing our voices, and being proud of you in the small conversations that we have. There’s at least one person in this world that likes what you have to say.

we often feel like we don’t have a lot of knowledge when you’re searching or discovering new things. However, when you go and look back and what you actually learned through the search and discovery process, you realize that you have a very good understanding of the world around you.

When I was growing up, my dad was a Polish immigrant. By de facto, I eat, cabbage, meat, and boiled potatoes every day. If we had boiled potatoes the night before, and there’s leftovers, I would have fried potatoes for lunch. Sometimes I would have leftovers for three or four days. The meals were always meat and potatoes.

When I moved away to go to university, I went to one of the most diverse parts of Canada, and to one of the most diverse universities. I remember having such unique meals and being exposed to different smells that I never experience I’ve been to that point.

To this day, I have not ate boiled potatoes since. My life is full of interesting meals that I would never of experience without being exposed to all of the wonderful flavors from around the world.

How do you deal with getting ghosted in PhD interviews? I help you deal with getting ghosted, and prevent you from getting ghosted in the future but you doing a little bit of work out front. The other thing then I want to remind you of is that getting ghosted it’s a strong signal that you probably don’t wanna work with him anyways in the future.

Let's focus on the positive traits of each generation. The younger generation values empathy and equality, while the older generation values hard work and respect. Both of these traits add value to our society. Instead of labeling one generation as lazy or out of touch, let's learn from each other and embrace the positive qualities that each generation brings to the table. By emphasizing the strengths of each generation, we can build a better and more cohesive organizations.

why do you moments of great time disappear? There’s many times in history where there is a renaissance of ideas, both within regions and within companies. The problem is is that these moments are fleeting

Why do they actually disappear? I talk about this in this podcast.

Get in the practice of giving openly. What you don’t realize is that giving is often at the heart of growing influence, whether it is in the real world or elite online world. Getting in the practice of being OK with giving and receiving nothing in return helps you to grow as a person.

Do we actually need to have #strategies?

I wonder if you simply just have to keep moving, and keep trying every day.

It might be more worthwhile to focus on #behavior and continuing to get people to “try,” rather than get them to focus on getting the strategy right from the get go.

In my view, if you focus on moving and behavior, you can #learn the strategy along the way that best fits the environment.

if we simply say that the strategy is adaptive, is that necessarily a strategy at that point?

How to process and think about disasters that you see. The challenge is to know what you should do in response. I think any possible response in terms of the way that you choose is probably the appropriate response at the time. Each person deals with disasters in their own separate way, and processes them in their own way of dealing with it.

While I think, sometimes it appears upsetting from the outside, there’s not really a good course of action ever makes sense. Each individual choice likely makes the most amount of sense for that.