Day 10 - Quotes and Thoughts
Discover valuable insights on communication, education, mindset, and planning from visionaries. Learn how simplifying complexity, embracing radical open-mindedness, and creating growth-oriented plans can help you achieve your goals and navigate the ever-changing landscape of life.
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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Steve Jobs
Topics: communication
Topics: communication
- It is challenging to solve complex problems, and it is more challenging to present your work or express your ideas and thoughts. To simplify the sophisticated concept, you need to deeply understand the fundamental building blocks and encapsulate such knowledge into the appropriate terminology that suits your audience. Hence, you need to work hard to study those pieces of fundamental knowledge and the context-specific terminology to present your work or thoughts in the layman way.
- Another way to simplify your work or thoughts and bring it close to your audience is using visual presentation (e.g., charts, diagrams, images, or other visual media). One says, "A thousand words will be replaced by an image". Hence, you need to work hard to identify or sketch out the visual presentation that effectively replaced your thousands of words.
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Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change. Learning is the product of a continuous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes, and improve our understanding of reality as a result. Being radically open-minded enhances the efficiency of those feedback loops, because it makes what you are doing, and why, so clear to yourself and others that there can’t be any misunderstandings. The more open-minded you are, the less likely you are to deceive yourself—and the more likely it is that others will give you honest feedback. If they are “believable” people (and it’s very important to know who is “believable”16), you will learn a lot from them. - Ray Dalio (Principles)
Topics: education, mindset
Topics: education, mindset
- Every decision that you make needs to have proper reasons. To come up with such reasons, you need to be honest with yourself and think in the objective and transparent way.
- One of the invaluable assets of human is a mindset. However, it is also the pain point if it is placed in the wrong direction. This is because the mindset will change over the time based on the environment and habits. Hence, it is important to create the radically transparent environment that empower the community to give honest and constructive feedback and to continuously learn from feedback to get better day to day.
- How many times did you fail because you were not honest with yourself? How many times were you in the toxic environment that made you afraid of giving feedback? How many times did you persist your thoughts and ideas in the discussion even they were not better than the other ones? In your daily reflection, asking yourself these tough questions and identifying the proper reasons will help to change your mindset in a good way.
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The plan is the plan. Remember the depressed students with the growth mindset? The worse they felt, the more they did the constructive thing. The less they felt like it, the more they made themselves do it. The critical thing is to make a concrete, growth-oriented plan, and to stick to it. - Carol Dweck (Mindset)
Topics: mindset, planning
Topics: mindset, planning
- A plan aims to navigate your workflow to achieve your goals effectively. Importantly, a plan is your estimation about the future events, and such events may not occur as you planned. Hence, it is crucial to have a mindset that supports you to adapt with changes in real-world scenarios. You don't need to feel upset with those unexpected events because they aren't in your control. Instead, you need to reflect the consequences for each action that you made in such situations.