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Impostor Syndrome – the barrier between artists and success
Do any of these apply to you:
- I find it hard to accept praise.
- I tend to focus on the things I am not good at, rather than my strenghts.
- I think that people over rate me and worry one day they will find out that I am not as good as they think I am.
- I often succeed despite being convinced I will fail before I begin.
- I often think that those around me are better.
- I hate asking for feedback on my performance.
www.jessstuart.co.nz/imposter-syndrome
Impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”, against all evidence.
70% of people suffer from some level of imposter syndrome.
Those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and do not deserve all they have achieved.
Individuals with impostorism incorrectly attribute their success to luck, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be.
What can you do about it:
www.jessstuart.co.nz/blog/2018/05/6-hacks-handle-imposter-syndrome
- Don’t over complicate things.
- Own your successes.
- Give it your all and know it’s enough.
- Don’t let your doubt and fear stop you.
- Remember: your thoughts are not common knowledge.
- Acknowledge it and know it’s not just you.
- Stop comparing yourself to others.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Why Socrates Hated Democracy
Democracy is only as effective as the education system that surrounds it.
If we turned back the evolutionary clock, would a species similar to humans come to dominate the Earth again?
www.bbc.com/future/story/20190709-would-humans-evolve-again-if-we-rewound-time
American palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed : What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock?
Gould reckoned that humanity’s evolution was so rare that we could replay the tape of life a million times and we wouldn’t see anything like Homo sapiens arise again. His reasoning was that chance events play a huge role in evolution.
Put simply, evolution is the product of random mutation.
Experimental evolutionary biologists do have the means to test some of Gould’s theories on a microscale with bacteria.
Many bacterial evolution studies have found, perhaps surprisingly, that evolution often follows very predictable paths over the short term, with the same traits and genetic solutions frequently cropping up. There are evolutionary forces that keep evolving organisms on the straight and narrow. Natural selection is the “guiding hand” of evolution, reigning in the chaos of random mutations and abetting beneficial mutations. This means many genetic changes will fade from existence over time, with only the best enduring. This can also lead to the same solutions of survival being realized in completely unrelated species.
What about the underlying physical laws (ie: gravity) – do they favour predictable evolution? At very large scales, it appears so.
This means that the broad “rules” for evolution would remain the same no matter how many times we replayed the tape. There would always be an evolutionary advantage for organisms that harvest solar power. There would always be opportunity for those that make use of the abundant gases in the atmosphere. And from these adaptations, we may predictably see the emergence of familiar ecosystems. But ultimately, randomness, which is built into many evolutionary processes, will remove our ability to “see into the future” with complete certainty.
Jim Carrey Motivational speech
Lukasz Laniecki – Is it okay to hate a family member?
It’s normal.
Usually we don’t hate people.
We hate what they do to us or how they make us feel (or how we make ourselves feel after hearing something they said/ experiencing something they did).
We hate the limitations they impose on us.
We hate the fact that they want to control our lives,
We hate the fact that their negative attitude (mindset, set of beliefs) wreaks havoc with our own lives.
We hate the fact that they don’t respect / appreciate us, or that they ridicule our efforts/ make fun of us, etc.
So usually there is nothing intrinsically bad (or wrong) with “hating someone”. We don’t hate them, we hate this situation/ how our lives are being affected.
Usually, when we say “I hate her” it means
I don’t like the fact that she…/ I feel bad when this happens to me/ It hurts when…/ I think I am right and she is wrong/ I don’t understand her.
That’s also what children mean when they say to their parents “I hate you”.
I mean, is it possible that a regular 9-year-old (not a child soldier/ guerrilla fighter somewhere in Africa, or elsewhere, with a screwed up psyche) is really capable of hating the other person for no reason?
Clearly there is always some reason why a 9-year-old (or 15-year-old) would say that to his/ her parent or teacher. What other reason he/she has to “hate this person”? It’s always because he/she doesn’t like something about this situation he/she is in.
Those are rare individuals who truly hate other people, when the sole reason for hating this person is her sheer existence. People they have zero connection to. People they never met before. People they didn’t even know existed before they met them for the first time.
When there is connection/ some kind of ongoing relationship, people know each other and interact, there always is a reason. It’s never that they truly hate this person for no reason – when such reason is ‘because’.
Figure out in what way your life is being affected. What you don’t like. Change that.
Go to the root of it. Don’t dwell in that feeling. Focus on what you don’t like about the situation and try to change it. Even if it means moving out of this house or cutting yourself off entirely.
Remember the chances are huge it’s not your family member you hate. It’s the situation.
Usually we can change the situation we’re in.
11 The Nine Situations | The Art of War by Sun Tzu
https://tweakyourbiz.com/global/the-art-of-war
– Being prepared at what you do can be the difference between success and failure when things go wrong
– Your king is your own customers. If you care for them, they will care for your project. Anticipate their needs, desires, wants and fulfill them with an unbiased mind.
– Understand and respect the scope, ownerships and accountabilities of the project you work on.
– Be subtle and diplomatic. You can only learn when you listen. But always be prepared to answer and follow up.
– Share efforts with other people in the project by offering free help, as that will come back as an investement.
– Focus on key elements of a production which are the least organized or efficient.
– Validate and qualify your resources before taking on a plan.
– Invest into a plan only if you are sure it can be completed successfully.
– Value a project’s requirements and its users’ experience before the technology development itself.
– Motivate your teams by the gains in specific production investments.
– Organize tasks and teams based on their strenghts and self efficiency.
– Analyze the project’s requirements and resources. Then prioritize them accordingly.
– Observe and resolve bottlenecks, opportunities and users’ needs
– Detail a plan B as soon as you striclty commit to a detailed plan A.
– Dedicate some time and small teams to research efficient alternatives.
– Build only and always on top of stable and known cycles.
– Focus on the big items if they can resolve a lot of small ones.
– If something worked before is still worth to think out of the box.
– Combine all your team strengths into a unified collaborative effort.
11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
http://io9.gizmodo.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746
From the Nebula Award-nominated short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson:
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”
“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”
“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”
“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”
“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”
A little while later:
“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”
“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”
“I thought you just told me they used radio.”
“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”
“Officially or unofficially?”
“Both.”
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”
“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’
What is consciousness
A way for the brain to abstract basic sense and analysis cycles.
How the slow down in the Chinese economy will affect housing as much as high tech
edition.cnn.com/2019/01/03/perspectives/apple-china-warning/index.html
China’s economic vulnerability is based on its very unbalanced growth model. In other advanced economies such as the United States, spending by consumers contributes as much as two-thirds or more of overall GDP. In China, consumption has risen from 35% 10 years ago, but it is still not near 60% of GDP, indicating an unbalanced economy that places emphasis on exports and investment, both of which, in the long run, are not sustainable.
Investment in infrastructure and heavy construction (around the world) turbo-boosted China’s economy in 2008 and for the next five years, but it issued a tremendous amount of debt to support such growth. Currently, the debt-to-GDP ratio for China stands at an alarming 250% of GDP, an unsustainable number and one that presents formidable challenge to China’s economic policymakers.
In the months ahead, be prepared to witness continued deterioration of the Chinese economy. This will be reflected in declining asset values such as real estate and equity markets, distressed corporate balance sheets and corporate assets, increased capital flight as a result of a declining Yuan relative to the US dollar, and growing stress within China’s financial sector as non-performing loans accelerate within the banking sector.
Human World Population Through Time
200,000 years to reach 1 billion.
200 years to reach 7 billions.
The global population has nearly tripled since 1950, from 2.6 billion people to 7.6 billion.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/08/health/global-burden-disease-fertility-study/index.html?no-st=1542440193
Guy Ritchie – You Must Be The Master of Your Own Suit and Your Own Kingdom
The world is trying to tell you who you are.
You yourself are trying to tell you who you are.
At some there has to be some reconciliation.
Simon Sinek’s about social addition apps and success
One of The Most Eye Opening Videos
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
Simon Sinek: CHANGE YOUR FUTURE
Dr. Bruce Lipton Explains how we are programmed in the first 7 years and how to improve afterwards through repetition
Practice effectively
Great players don’t get better, they get more consistent.
Quincy Jones says: Knowing where u come from makes it easier to get where you going.
Active effectiveness vs passive kindness’ struggle in Macchiavelli’s theories applied to production
1- You should never believe that your opposition does not know their business. Do not take any project lightly.
2- Acquire fame as able, not as good.
3- To know how to recognize an opportunity in any struggle benefits you more than anything else.
4- Make your opposition suspect their own instruments in whom they confide.
Do not commit to any one solution.
5- Guard those places better by which you think you can be hurt less.
6- Don’t keep beside you either too great lovers of passiveness or too great lovers of passion.
7- Act so your opposition do not know how you want to organize your plans. But organize your team so they can support each other independently on the plan.
8- Never lead your team into a project unless you are assured of their commitment and confidence in the result. Discipline counts more than passion. Testing a plan helps with final results.
9- Train your team to get used to difficult situations and circumstances.
10- What benefits the opposition harms you and what benefits you harms the opposition.
11- Carefully detail your opposition and objective and plan accordingly.
12- Nature creates very few talents, but dedication and training make many.
13- Always, always consider and reserve resources for a plan B.
14- Keep your team focused until the results are obtained.
15- Organize a team so that is not specialized but flexible in all ventures. But always be clear on assigned tasks.
16- Counsel about options with many, but discuss details with few.
17- Never commit yourself to a specific task in a large project, unless necessity compels you or opportunity calls.
18- Do not rush but take a moment to analyze unexpected issues.
19- Love peace but be educated on how to be bold and move forward.
warontherocks.com/2016/12/machiavellis-rules-of-war/
Gods are fragile things
’Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.’
Chapman Cohen (1868 – 1954)
Richard Dawkins on humanity genes challenge
Gist of Richard Dawkins thoughts on current life style:
One of the biggest challenges we are all facing is that our genes are a critical factor in guiding our well being. These genes have been built around living for tens of thousands of years in a complete different environment than our current, modern life style.
How our body and mind is reacting to that is one of the biggest question in modern humanity.
Cognitive Fallacies with Dr. Richard E. Nisbett – How do we react to and read people?
https://smartdrugsmarts.com/episodes/220-errors-richard-nisbett/
Many scientific and philosophical ideas can be applied with great effects in our everyday lives.
Plastic particles found in bottled water
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43388870
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_03_13_finalbottled.pdf
Tests on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic.
