I heard this some time ago while taking theater classes: If I’m a cool person, I will not check left and right. I’ll focus on what really matters.
Think of models walking on the catwalk, they focus on what they need to do.
Or: Escaping the Drug Factory | The Bourne Legacy | All Action – YouTube:
“We belong here”.
I liked that thought – focus to the extreme, ignore everything else, just focus on the main aim.
I have some memories from high school.
I was part of an Informatics class, generally, the colleagues were better educated.
In the high school, there was, among others, another class, with students more focused on sports.
We typically played football in the high school’s stadium.
Yet, at the very end of high school years, we went outside town, and played in a real stadium, with real football gates.
The stadium field was sometimes muddy, but it was huge.
The other team was better than us, yet we won once, and I really remembered that time, it felt like we were on top of the world.
I have other examples, of high school Olympiads and contents, for example, but this memory, of winning a game against a team of generally better players than us, stayed with me.
And, unlike the contests, it was a group memory, typically in contests, it was me against external people. In the game, it was “my team” against “their team”.
My favorite type of luxury is long-lasting products.
The more I use a product, the more important it seems to me to be quality.
Examples: monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers.
I spend a lot of time on my PC, on a chair, and on a bed. I try to have these as comfortable and long-lasting as possible.
My current mattress is fine, I don’t plan to change it, but when I’ll do, I’ll likely consider a better one.
There are some books like “The Sales Bible”, “The Advertising Bible”, things like that.
I want to tell you a different title: “Project Management = Bible”.
What I want to tell is you is that the Bible is actually a Project Management book in itself.
To me, the Bible is like a project management/leadership book.
Yes, it has religious principles, it does have some sort of descriptions and principles that could be considered “definitions” or “introduction to”.
On the other hand, generally, it’s more on how you balance things, how you manage resources, how you relate to limited work.
It’s also inspirational, it might motivate you.
The parables are a perfect example for my two assertions – they’re either case studies or inspirational stories, and you can see how to avoid errors.
In SEO, there are some websites that try to scare you, for traffic purposes.
I know people that keep getting messages from free antivirus software, that their IP is visible, that others can spy through the webcam when not using it etc.
Those people only need basic antivirus and firewall, in order to avoid losing money, stop others from accessing their emails or anything relevant online.
The answer is simple: some free antivirus software actually live from upgrades, that’s their source of money – making people be scared, so they buy a premium solution.
Of course, such software displays aggressive advertisements.
Why do I like to choose for meetings both the start and end times?
It’s nice to go and meet some friends for a whole afternoon, but, other than that, I find it better to set a schedule.
“- Anton Freeman: Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
– Vincent: It’s too late for that. We’re closer to the other side.
– Anton Freeman: What other side? You wanna drown us both?
– Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”(via »; Loren Dean – Anton Freeman; Ethan Hawke – Vincent Freeman)
I like this quote so much!
The perseverance, the continuous search, the struggle.
It’s all so real!
Once, I wanted to install an internal floppy disk drive on my own.
As you might expect, it didn’t work.
I returned it, but it would have been better if I went to a specialist, and avoided taking any risks.
I wanted to change a UPS battery until someone informed me of the enormous voltage stored in there. I stopped immediately and canceled any thoughts of doing this on my own.
Once, I once tried to connect a power source to a graphics card. It didn’t go well.
At some point, I tried to defragment a hard drive, but it broke the hard drive. I did this a few times.
Asking for help is never wrong.
I know someone who likes to speak about politics.
Yet, when taking action, that person has room to improve – it rarely votes, doesn’t volunteer in the field, doesn’t start a party.
Yes, it’s nice to know a lot of things about sports, but how about doing sports, instead?
Instead of watching a 90-minute match of football, how about running for 15 minutes and doing some push-ups?
I don’t think most people can predict what will happen.
Many years ago, a friend asked me – “I want to launch a website with funny videos and things like that”.
I told him such a website has no chance, there are plenty of websites doing this already.
I was wrong, 9GAG later went on to become a successful website with just funny things.
It wasn’t that known in Romania back then, so there was a niche worth exploiting.
The solution? Do a lot of predictions in lots of areas and some will stick.
Most – won’t.