Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2021

5 Takeaways from the Book: The Richest Man in Babylon"

 

Book: The Richest Man in Babylon, by George S Clason

5 Takeaways:

1. Pay yourself first

2. Man of action are favored by the goddess of luck

The procrastinator and the doer have the same chance to thrive. What separates them though
is the number of opportunities that they try out.

Read this blog: Art & Fear: The ceramics class and quantity before quality

3.  Wealth is not a matter of income

4. Act when the time is right

5. The power of passive income


Monday, November 18, 2019

12 Rules for Life



1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back 4:30 2. Treat yourself like you are someone you care about 16:23 3. Make friends with people who want the best for you 22:53 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today 25:45 5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them 37:23 6.Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world 48:51 7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) 58:46 8 Tell the truth, or at least don't lie 9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't 1:05:00 10. Be precise in your speech 11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding 1:11:45 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street 1:17:06

Saturday, August 24, 2019

Steve Jobs - Life Philosophy


"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, i.e., everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use, and the minute you understand that you can poke life, if you push in, something will pop out the other side. You can change, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing - to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there, you just gonna live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it,  and make your mark upon it. ... once your learn that, you'll never be the same again."

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Why You Shouldn't do What You're Told


Seth Godin talks about:
What it means to start small and start now
how do you know when to ship a project
how do you know how to market a product

starting a business “was never about how do I make money doing something. It was how do I find enough resources to do a project that I'm interested in. How do I be able to put on a show that I care about and if there's a business component to it that's fine, but for me the work has always been to do a project and sometimes those projects can be amplified by working for someone but even if you are working for someone you don't have to act as if it's a job. A job is where you try to please someone who tells you what to do and that person usually wants you to do what you did yesterday but a little faster and a little cheaper whereas impresarios and people who make projects are playing by a completely different set of rules.”

"...now that these platforms exist now that individuals like you and I can do the work we care about without a job and without a boss we shouldn't be teaching every single kid how to be normal we
should be teaching kids two things how to solve interesting problems and how to we're going to see our culture accelerate."