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Lessons I learnt from getting fired 4 times

Pursue Your Dreams

Due to financial and security reasons, we may be working jobs that may not be our true calling.

Get into pursuing your true passion, something you love to do, something you've always dreamt of, while letting go of other reasons for taking a job, like working in a 'hip' or prestigious company or a highly secure job.

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What's a 'growth mindset' (and why does it matter)?

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As Matthew sat in his boss's office, learning why he was being fired, he wondered how it had come to this. When he was younger, he was often lauded for being exceptional-teachers told him he was one of the smartest kids they'd taught. But when his first adult job brought new challenges, he crumbled .

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Fixed vs. Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset:

tend to understand basic abilities as malleable, and believe they can be developed over time.
love new challenges and view setbacks as opportunities to learn.
display better self-esteem, more resilience, and enjoy better outcomes in life.

Fixed Mindset:

tend to believe their basic attributes )like intelligence and talent) are innate and set in stone;
avoid difficult tasks, fearing that failure might expose a lack in ability.

How to change your mindset

The 3 steps to encourage a change in mindset:

Observe your mindset.
Challenge your beliefs
Build a “growth” muscle.

Observe your mindset

You can’t begin to change a “fixed” mindset until you recognize it.

Notice if you rush to conclusions about fundamental abilities:

Do you tell yourself that you’re no good at a particular task, so there’s no point attempting it ?
Do you believe that success in certain kinds of activities are reserved for people who are naturally gifted?
Do you worry that if you try your hardest and fail at something, you’ll be exposed as “no good”?

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Five Lessons from History

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The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other eras, and other people. That's where lessons have leverage and are most likely to apply to your own life. But those things take some digging to find, often sitting layers below the main story.

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“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

Voltaire

History lessons

The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other historical times, and other people.

The point is that the more specific a lesson of history is, the less relevant it becomes.

Adopting new views

One of the interesting parts of the Great Depressions from history is not just how the economy collapsed, but how quickly and dramatically people’s views changed when it did.

People suffering from immediate, unexpected adversity are likely to adopt views they previously thought absurd. It’s not until your life is in full chaos (with your hopes and dreams your dreams unsure) that people begin taking ideas they’d never consider before seriously.

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In The Flow: How To Master Your Brain's Peak Productivity

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The chirp of a bird outside your window breaks you from your trance. You've been working for hours, but it felt like minutes. Your conscious mind was totally embraced in the task at hand, in a liminal space where nothing else mattered. You look up from your desk and think: "Where was I?"

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The Flow State

Flow is characterized by complete concentration in the activity at hand, resulting in a loss in one’s sense of space and time. It’s a state of both high challenge and high skill—a place where we’re capable of stretching ourselves to overcome difficulty.
Anyone is capable of inducing such a state of deep productivity and creativity.

The Six Parts of A Flow State

Intense concentration on the task at hand.
A merging of action and awareness - “being and doing become one”.
A loss of reflective self-consciousness.
A sense of personal control over the situation.
A distortion of the perception of time.
Autotelic experience: the activity itself is intrinsically rewarding, rather than the expected outcome.

What Flow Is Not

It’s not easy. Flow is not just a state where we love the work so much it just pours out. Flow is a state where hard work meets joy and meaning.
It’s not for beginners. The act of learning how to do something won’t always allow us to get into the flow. Getting into the zone in a specific discipline is something that needs to be learned and practiced.

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