Month: July 2016
A few weeks ago a thought came to mind about the reason why I let my guard down before I finish doing something. I almost finished doing a task that I had to do and almost at the end of it, I found myself thinking that I have already finished it so maybe it is time to move on something else. Then I had less motivation to continue as hard as up to that point. I identified the false reasoning that was behind this thought that has kept repeating in my life. Continue reading
Knowing yourself is really critical, especially at these times where you can meet a lot of critics who can put you down or people who appraise and which raise and give you more merits than you actually deserve. Know yourself and the level at which you are in at your career or at different slices of your life and enable yourself the possibility of having a solid and objective ground which you can use for further improvements. Continue reading
In a podcast interview, the famous author and professor Cal Newport while talking about the Deep Work, he mentioned among other things that people should strive to minimize the number of context switches from one task to another, because this way we are able to save a lot of time and attention that can be invested in valuable things. Continue reading
What you are about to read might surprise you. It might break the conventional belief that is hold by a lot of us that people who are successful and performing at the top of their fields never failed in their past. We think that they are just born to be great and never had any wasted effort. However, this is far from the actual truth. Continue reading