Celebrating The 100th Weekly Edition - Part IV
Edition #103
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This is the fourth part of the series celebrating the 100th Weekly Edition of The ContraMind Code Newsletter.
Here, we share yet another curated selection, celebrating the 100th edition, as it is an excellent time to pause and look back at all the thoughts and ideas we have accumulated over 100 weeks.
It can act as a great foundation to help you pick some of them and apply them in many things you may have wanted to do or start or continue to build your path towards excellence.
Let’s begin a dialogue on ideas learnt - Start contributing your ideas and thoughts here.
The ideas section here encourages the start of a conversation amongst us, and the aim here is to attempt to make this a collective community learning platform by learning from each other’s experiences. So, go ahead and share your ideas, experiences and thoughts. Don’t hesitate to ask questions and seek answers for them.
“Behind pithy slogans like ‘Move Fast, Fail fast’ etc. is a dangerous assumption that everyone is on the same page in a start-up” - Amanda Schwartz Ramirez(Edition #63)
“For the first ten years, learning an instrument is a physical exercise. That’s all important, but after that, then what? The answer is you need to follow your guiding ear. That’s what’s going to lead you towards your musical direction.” - Steve Howe, Legendary Guitarist(Edition #064)
“Don’t throw data back to your clients, which they most often know or can interpret but learn to tell the story behind the data.” - Ravishankar Iyer, Founder Story Rules. (Edition #065)
“Doing something that you want unlocks your ability to really commit yourself to it. It helps you discover your potential.” - Matt Christensen.(Edition #066)
“When you set a goal, create a list of kill criteria that give you some outer limits, post which you need to be more rational about when it’s the right time to walk away.” - Annie Duke (Edition #70)
“If I’m not good at something, I’ll be my first best critic.” - R.Ashwin, Indian Cricketer ( Edition #071)
“There’s the hedonistic option—you can graduate, get a good job with great pay, work 40 hours a week and chill out,” - Prasanna Ganesan, JEE No 1 in 1996 (Edition #072)
“I don’t feel 91 because I don’t know what 91 is supposed to feel like.” - Clint Eastwood (Edition #073)
“Do we raise kids who want to get ‘A’ grades all the time or ones who learn and want to dream big?” - Carol S Dweck (Edition #074)
‘Why are you doing the work that you are doing?’ - Scott Dinsmore (Edition #075)
Learning to work with Chat GPT through integration and collaboration- between humans and machines- will be how tomorrow’s work will increasingly be transformed.(Edition #063)
Memory is a bundle of interconnection of thoughts and meanings. We must find ways to build this interconnection for impregnable memory skills. (Edition #064)
A trillion connections of computer models can do learning much better than 100 trillion connections in the human brain.(Edition #065)
Gone are the times when you expect your boss or the company that you work for to take charge of your career. Instead, taking control of your career growth would be best. (Edition #066)
Daily routines like going to work, taking meetings etc., put all of us in a process grind that kills the power of wonder in all of us.(Edition #067)
Think about what an extra decade can throw open to you in terms of your relationships if you have a clear sense of why and what you would like to accomplish.(Edition #071)
Your apprenticeship never ends if you want to be a world-class professional. (Edition #077)
You have to learn to build a product around the ambiguity surrounding it. (Edition #078)
Work and life are not adversaries. You have to learn to live with both harmoniously.(Edition #079)
Why a company where everyone is busy 100% of the time is inefficient. (Edition #080)
There is a natural momentum towards striving for expertise and excellence when there is an interplay of purpose, meaning and play. (Edition #064)
When thrown into very difficult situations in a career, it puts you out of your comfort zone and tests your skills, grit, resilience and perseverance. Difficult can be a great learning experience.(Edition#065)
The ones with a DIY(Doing-It-Yourself) career mindset outpace the ones with a DIO(Doing-It-For-Others) career mindset.(Edition #066)
Right from when we go to school to college and finally at work, we are taught and rewarded for ‘Surface Curiosity.’(Edition #067)
Start thinking of ageing not as a retirement but as an evolution.(Edition #068)
Imagine Your Career as a Journey(Edition #068)
We must unlearn to compete with others.(Edition #069)
You have to hit your ‘skill gym’ every day.(Edition #071)
It is important not get carried away by one-off events in your life or career. (Edition #072)
By merely restricting yourself to job descriptions or roles, remember you are limiting your growth.(Edition #076)
“What are the equipments and tools in your skill gym?” - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on what you think of this idea and any tools or practices that you use to get better at your skills. (Edition #071)
‘Discipline without motivation is bound to be short-lived. Align your inner drive with motivation and discipline for success.’ Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on how you have seen some great people align their motivation and inner drive. (Edition #072)
‘Everybody knows the problem, but nobody wants to take the problem head-on.’ Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on how you have seen leaders take the problem head on and find solutions for them.(Edition #080)
‘AI will be a saviour rather than a destroyer of many industries and business models.’ Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts and ideas on this. Please share with us some examples on how AI has been saviour and what can we learn from that. (Edition #081)
‘When you develop visual intelligence, you can think of the whole picture’. Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts and ideas on developing visual intelligence. Please share with us some examples of how you have seen people use visual intelligences and therefore improve their cognitive skills. (Edition #082)