Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things.
2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
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Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There’s no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn’t change this reality.
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Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things
Zereцитирует3 года назад
But there are some general questions that any effective ritual must address: • Where you’ll work and for how long
zuzuhasanli97цитирует7 лет назад
There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where… but I hope [my work] makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration.
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it’s even more important that the individual learn how to seek out opportunities for flow
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feeling of going deep is in itself very rewarding
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Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow,
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Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
Arsene Lontsiцитирует3 дня назад
Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it.