Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.
Author: Derek Sivers | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Author: Colin Powell | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement
Sometimes amateurs believe they are professionals, but professionals never believe they are amateurs.
Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement
[Paul O’Keefe] and two co-authors—[Carol] Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.
Author: Olga Khazan | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Abraham Maslow wisely said, “It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” Without knowing want you want, others may define your wants for you, often not in your long-term interest. Yet, this seemingly simple question becomes complex because answering it requires an awareness of personal strengths, passions, and values. The self-reflection questions to probe what you want … [ Read more ]
Authors: Abraham Maslow, Dave Ulrich | Source: Management Business Review (MBR) | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
Author: F. M. Alexander | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brains is a craftsman. A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist.
Author: Louis Nizer | Subjects: Career, Life & Society
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Author: Farrah Gray | Subjects: Business, Career
When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from. But you have to love it sincerely. Not because you’re going to make money from it, be famous, or get whatever you want to get. When you do it because you love it, then you can find yourself moving up and getting really good at something you wanted to … [ Read more ]
Author: Jerry Seinfeld | Subjects: Career, Concepts, Life & Society, Love, Personal Improvement
When we work hard for something we don’t believe in, it’s called stress. When we work hard for something we do believe in, it’s called passion.
Author: Simon Sinek | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.
Author: Simon Sinek | Subjects: Career, Health & Medicine, Personal Improvement
Presenting a glimmering version of yourself that doesn’t feel real is an easy path to discontent. You can follow your passion all you want, but if you’re not expressing it authentically, in a way that is indisputably you, the gap will catch up with you. The space between who you are and who you express yourself to be exists in varying degrees. But if it’s … [ Read more ]
Author: Jodi Ettenberg | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
The solution to imposter syndrome is to see that you are one. […] The lesson to be drawn isn’t that we’re doomed to chaos. It’s that you – unconfident, self-conscious, all-too-aware-of-your-flaws – potentially have as much to contribute to your field, or the world, as anyone else.
Humanity is divided into two: on the one hand, those who are improvising their way through life, patching solutions … [ Read more ]
Author: Oliver Burkeman | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Career, Personal Improvement
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
Author: Ogden Nash | Subjects: Career, Gratitude