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Friday, February 9, 2018
Some More Casualties Of Cultural Change
What We Should Have Learned in School But Never Did
Boundaries
Out of fear of rocking the boat or upsetting another person, people often have loose boundaries. They tolerate behaviors that they’re not ok with, let people walk all over them and end up resenting them. But having loose boundaries more than anything indicates a lack of self-respect. Lose boundaries reduce our self-worth. With strong boundaries, we might piss some people off, but we’re also less likely to find ourselves in situations that are ultimately toxic to our well being. Strong boundaries reinforce our self-worth.
Prioritize Your Happiness
When we prioritize other people’s happiness over our own, we do ourselves and them a great disservice. We’re not authentic and the exhaustion of the facade will lead to an inevitable debacle. Whether it’s the job we take, the person we date, the friendships in our lives or the projects we say yes or no to, when we settle and compromise our own values and standards, we lose our power and diminish our joy. Sometimes it’s only in letting go of that which doesn’t serve us that we can find real joy and show up as the best versions of ourselves. The willingness to walk away is not stubbornness as much as it is a commitment one’s own values and standards. If we’re not mindful, our compromises can eventually turn into resentment
Process Orientation
Unfortunately, we’re taught by school to have an outcome orientation. Grades determine how good you are at something. And something temporary often becomes permanent. This creates unhealthy attachments, expectations, and disappointments. In the worst case scenarios, it causes people not to take any action at all. But nearly all successful people focus on the process instead of the prize.
When you’re process-oriented, outcomes can exceed your expectations. And process orientation allows you to experience progress, which in turn increases your motivation, creating a self-perpetuating cycle that ultimately causes momentum
Article link (Medium.com)
Boundaries
Out of fear of rocking the boat or upsetting another person, people often have loose boundaries. They tolerate behaviors that they’re not ok with, let people walk all over them and end up resenting them. But having loose boundaries more than anything indicates a lack of self-respect. Lose boundaries reduce our self-worth. With strong boundaries, we might piss some people off, but we’re also less likely to find ourselves in situations that are ultimately toxic to our well being. Strong boundaries reinforce our self-worth.
Prioritize Your Happiness
When we prioritize other people’s happiness over our own, we do ourselves and them a great disservice. We’re not authentic and the exhaustion of the facade will lead to an inevitable debacle. Whether it’s the job we take, the person we date, the friendships in our lives or the projects we say yes or no to, when we settle and compromise our own values and standards, we lose our power and diminish our joy. Sometimes it’s only in letting go of that which doesn’t serve us that we can find real joy and show up as the best versions of ourselves. The willingness to walk away is not stubbornness as much as it is a commitment one’s own values and standards. If we’re not mindful, our compromises can eventually turn into resentment
Process Orientation
Unfortunately, we’re taught by school to have an outcome orientation. Grades determine how good you are at something. And something temporary often becomes permanent. This creates unhealthy attachments, expectations, and disappointments. In the worst case scenarios, it causes people not to take any action at all. But nearly all successful people focus on the process instead of the prize.
When you’re process-oriented, outcomes can exceed your expectations. And process orientation allows you to experience progress, which in turn increases your motivation, creating a self-perpetuating cycle that ultimately causes momentum
Article link (Medium.com)
I Have Grown To Hate This Mentality
10 things smart people never say
“This is the way it’s always been done”
“This is the way it’s always been done”
- Technology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a six-month-old process could be outdated. Saying this is the way it’s always been done not only makes you sound lazy and resistant to change, but it could make your boss wonder why you haven’t tried to improve things on your own. If you really are doing things the way they’ve always been done, there’s almost certainly a better way.
Because FOMO
HBO hit 5M online subscribers, although many of them aren’t using the HBO app, and what good are subscribers if they aren’t using your app?
(BroBible.com)
(BroBible.com)
So Does That Make Them Frenemies?
Hacker And Nerd God, Apple's Steve Wozniak Slams Tesla's Elon Musk — And There's A BONUS Surprise . . . . .
"I believed that stuff," he said. "Now I don't believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says, but I still love the car..."
So,
here comes the bonus to this story. According to Woz, while he says he
still loves the Tesla he owns, he admits that he typically chooses to
use his Chevrolet Bolt unless he's going on a longer drive to Kansas or
Yellowstone.
Although
Steve Jobs gets the lion's share of the credit for Apple's success —
and he should given how he turned the company around then released
several game changing products — there's also a more unsung hero. To the
hacking community and computing nerds like myself, Steve Wozniak is a
god.
That's because he has the hacker's ethos and is the real deal behind Apple's start.
So,
when Wozniak speaks it doesn't hurt to listen now and again. And, boy,
he recently let it rip when asked about Tesla and, more specifically,
the company's leader, Elon Musk.
See the excerpt below from Business Insider:
. . . . . Wozniak's trust was dented.
"I believed that stuff," he said. "Now I don't believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says, but I still love the car..."
. . . . ."All
Tesla says is, 'It's beta, so we're not responsible — you have to be in
control,'" Wozniak said. "So that's kind of a cheap way out of it.
Everything I've read told me that every other car manufacturer in the
world — Audi and BMW — are actually ahead of Tesla for self-driving
cars . . . . ."
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