EPTSo thank you.
I think the most important part is keeping a clear goal in mind. I've adopted a mantra of sorts similar to it recently and it's just a really good thing to keep in mind.
My thanks for the excellent blog. ^_^
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Juliette
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So thank you. I think the most important part is keeping a clear goal in mind. I've adopted a mantra of sorts similar to it recently and it's just a really good thing to keep in mind. My thanks for the excellent blog. ^_^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 14:22 CursOr wrote: Am I preparing for a trip to the moon or something? IDK man I just like go to work, buy stuff I like, sometimes my stuff is really neat, sometimes it isn't... the only thing I really harp on is never being late to work and never calling off. Unless I absolutely have to. Here is some advice for you: relax and give yourself a break bro. Nobody wins. You can't take anything with you. This is all you get. If you die with a whole bunch of money, you worked that much too hard. But, from the sounds of things, you have kids and are busting ass for them. That is awesome. Still, give yourself a break man. Just reading that shit made me tired. for me personally, it's about how far can I press myself and there are lot of things I'd like to do later on, I mean if I was really all about the cash I wouldn't spend what time I have posting here, no matter how much if does balance me, so I'm not living entirely for cash, but I have a lot of obligations as well. At the end of the day, I want to be in a position to help and do what whatever I find value in. The most inspirational thing I say was a interview with ted turner and they ask him about why he spend his money in this and that way for a charity and he says, something to the effect, ' I don't need to explain how I spend my money' and he just walked off the set in the middle of a major interview. My country, Korea, is pretty fucked up on a lot of levels, and part of why I work is that one day soon I'd like to contribute something, in whatever small way, and make something a bit better. The way I'd like to do it is by supporting financially. don't get me wrong, I get tired, but fuck it, one life to live man, but to each their own as well. best time in my day is when I get to play with my kids, just following them around. | ||
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Juliette
United States6003 Posts
gsl time now though so i guess i have a study break... but as a question, when you hit these productive strides do you just ride it out, or let it go? I feel like I'm on this thin edge of writing really well, or collapsing and writing like shit. Also what is the drinking age in korea? | ||
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firehand101
Australia3152 Posts
On May 03 2012 04:25 Advocado wrote: Amazing? I probably shouldnt have commented on this blog because I think the majority of it is rehashed life advice. If the guy wants to get good at writing - absolutely go for it. But unique content is king and that "You should exercise, avoid debt, keep your desk clean etc. etc." is boring. Its a lot of peptalk and incoherent advice. Going to the Teamliquid H&F forum will net you way more information that you can explore yourself. Being positive is good though. Ive read every letter of this blog twice now, and have soaked in every bit of advice. This is a plethora of amazing knowledge and is really influencing my life right now. So if you don't like it then that's okay, but know that for others (like me) this is truly amazing advice; particularly because I want to go into this specific field. So thanks mightyatom for writing another masterpiece  | ||
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Azera
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While reading this informative, enlightening, inspirational blog, I can't help but think about my present circumstances. I'm a teenager that thinks he doesn't belong where he is, who thinks that he belongs somewhere better, because he can do better. And yet. Plagued by plain laziness, a severe lack of motivation and inspiration, I, unfortunately, am on the road to failure. I hope for a future of marriage, a well-paying job that I love (A lawyer, maybe a professor), but these dreams, I have come to realise, will remain as dreams. When I eventually reach adulthood, I know that these dreams will never be achieved, and I will lock them up in the back of my head, and create re-defined dreams to fit my new circumstances. This will just end up being a harsh, vicious cycle. I fear becoming a dreamer, and yet, I can not bring myself to do anything about it. I understand that the life of a student, especially an Asian one, is to achieve a rather simple, yet tedious to reach goal - study hard to get good grades. Heck, education systems elsewhere in the world might claim that this isn't what the teach students to be, the values that they guide students by, but I'm pretty sure the hard truth is - that's the way if you want to succeed. There are obviously exceptions, like born-geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg and whatnot, but that is irrelevant. I want to try my best to fix all these things. I want to be able to live my dreams for once. I want to learn to endure the pains of hard work. I want to overcome my laziness. And yet. I'll try to read a book every two weeks. Maybe I'll start with books that are of issues that I have an interest in - religion, linguistics, philosophy. I'm just afraid of coming off as pretentious when I read all these books, I mean, I'm a 15 year old teenager. I'll try to keep to a schedule too. I'll use one of my old spare notebooks. I don't think this will go well, but it's worth a shot I suppose. Thanks for reading. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 17:32 rift wrote: this advice motivated me to go back to bed that is exactly what I did when I finished writing it ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 17:36 Utikiz wrote: I really like the first step. A danish "society person" actually proposed that we make a 4 days work week and use the fifth day to learn something new that you didn't already know, that being playing a music instrument, learning a language, handcraft etc. etc. And ofcourse, it had to be mandatory. Just a thought! I would be down with that, at least society would be more well rounded, in Korea we generally just follow one acceptable path, makes us very competitive and narrow minded in terms of what we deem as successful or proper. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 18:12 Juliette wrote: As a followup i just beastmoded a paper and prepped for my exam with the same paper. aw. yeah. gsl time now though so i guess i have a study break... but as a question, when you hit these productive strides do you just ride it out, or let it go? I feel like I'm on this thin edge of writing really well, or collapsing and writing like shit. Also what is the drinking age in korea? if I get into a productive rhythm I keep going and usually because of it, I'm able to wipe everything off my plate. Thing is, you do need to pace yourself and it isn't about the length of time, but the quality. When I say I work x number of hours, I'm doing more work than most people do in a week and I do it in a day. It actually takes a lot of time to develop that ability to extend it. And I think when you feel like you are on that edge, push yourself until you start writing like shit cause you'll know it. When you in the zone, you don't feel the time and just do. So if you feel it, and you start to really feel heavy, just stop, rest and get back to it later. I'm a big napper, and if something is really detailed, I personally need a lot of sleep to write coherently. Drinking age in Korea, officially 19 american age, but actually, it doesn't matter within reason, i.e. 17 or so. Not that I'm advocating under aged drinking unless you're a relative. ^^ | ||
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NonFactor
Sweden698 Posts
I think the advice you give is great. Sometimes we are so hung up on finding niches / shortcuts for success (or life in general) that we forget that it's the solid basics that matter the most. You said you ventured into business at age 25, did you go back to university in order to study for it? If you did, whats your major? Keep them blogs coming! | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 19:44 Azera wrote: MightyAtom, While reading this informative, enlightening, inspirational blog, I can't help but think about my present circumstances. I'm a teenager that thinks he doesn't belong where he is, who thinks that he belongs somewhere better, because he can do better. And yet. Plagued by plain laziness, a severe lack of motivation and inspiration, I, unfortunately, am on the road to failure. I hope for a future of marriage, a well-paying job that I love (A lawyer, maybe a professor), but these dreams, I have come to realise, will remain as dreams. When I eventually reach adulthood, I know that these dreams will never be achieved, and I will lock them up in the back of my head, and create re-defined dreams to fit my new circumstances. This will just end up being a harsh, vicious cycle. I fear becoming a dreamer, and yet, I can not bring myself to do anything about it. I understand that the life of a student, especially an Asian one, is to achieve a rather simple, yet tedious to reach goal - study hard to get good grades. Heck, education systems elsewhere in the world might claim that this isn't what the teach students to be, the values that they guide students by, but I'm pretty sure the hard truth is - that's the way if you want to succeed. There are obviously exceptions, like born-geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg and whatnot, but that is irrelevant. I want to try my best to fix all these things. I want to be able to live my dreams for once. I want to learn to endure the pains of hard work. I want to overcome my laziness. And yet. I'll try to read a book every two weeks. Maybe I'll start with books that are of issues that I have an interest in - religion, linguistics, philosophy. I'm just afraid of coming off as pretentious when I read all these books, I mean, I'm a 15 year old teenager. I'll try to keep to a schedule too. I'll use one of my old spare notebooks. I don't think this will go well, but it's worth a shot I suppose. Thanks for reading. 1. People like Zuck or the google boys or even Jobs etc, they aren't the norm whatsoever, if you look at the top 100 richest of any country, most are over 60 2. at age 15, if you're even thinking about it, you're already doing pretty good, disciplined is built over time, you just got to start somewhere 3. when I was 15, I was just doing nothing but playing rugby and really nothing else and trying to get a girl friend. Dreams are a great place to start, but don't expect to see things happen over night, plus at 15, every year is a new year, and as long as you just take things step-by-step, throw away the anxiety of not being able to achieve and just get into a really strong routine, then when the time comes for you to step it up, you'll be able to put the hours behind it. Malcolm Gladwell writes these really good short pithy stories on unique sociological trends/observations and there is one story about how it takes 10,000 hours of training to be a world class expert in anything you do, now, that may or may not be exactly right, but classical musicians train that much as well as most pro athletes by the time they are considered world class. At the end of the day though, there is a start and you just take it from there. Just do what I've mentioned first, make it happen, then as life takes you, you'll just add on to it, and as a Singaporean, much like Korea, if you don't study your ass off, you'll likely fail anyways, so its not like you have a choice in the matter ^^. But don't think too much, it really isn't helpful, think after you've done something, thinking first about too much of something that you aren't sure about when you're young makes you speculate and makes you go cukoo and its unnecessary. Make a very clear schedule and make space in that schedule for something like a hobby and just enjoy and get better at it. Everything else will work itself out. I don't think I had any plan until I was 30, otherwise, I was just living life without regrets and just continually learning as much as I could until things started to click into place, but I did learn on my own, I did take chances and opportunities that the rest again, will work itself out. ^^ Stop speculating and just make a routine and in that 30mins every day, just do something new, whether it is joining a coding free website and learning. ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On May 03 2012 20:35 NonFactor wrote: Nice blog, enjoyed reading it. I think the advice you give is great. Sometimes we are so hung up on finding niches / shortcuts for success (or life in general) that we forget that it's the solid basics that matter the most. You said you ventured into business at age 25, did you go back to university in order to study for it? If you did, whats your major? Keep them blogs coming! yes, did my masters in business from 25-27, my major was strategic management and business negotiation; I was going to do a masters-in-law afterwards and be a career gov't negotiator, but I enjoyed the business strategy so much, and eventually got into marketing. I ended up freelancing as a commercial fashion brand license negotiator, so it was through that I learned much of my marketing outside of studies. | ||
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