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Day 6 - Quotes and Thoughts

Choose to listen to constructive feedback and ignore the noise. Building meaningful relationships takes time and active communication. A growth mindset helps you filter information and make better decisions through practice and reflection.

Hung Du

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The fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you’ll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving. - Carol Dweck (Mindset)
Topics: mindset, growth

2023-2-18

  • People always have their own opinions about what you are doing. It is your reasoned choice whether you listen those opinions or not. If an opinion is constructive, you should listen and practice it for the improvement. Otherwise, it would be better not to matter it.
  • If you start learning or doing something, you should always remember that failures are lessons for you to grow. Hence, you need to listen to constructive feedback that helps you grow and put aside all the noisy judgements.
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Metcalfe’s law: the more people in the network, the more valuable the network. This makes intuitive sense: the value to each participant is driven primarily by how many other people he or she can communicate with. - Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
Topics: relationship

2023-2-18

  • The number of people we know is not always equivalent to the number of people who know us. Nowadays, with the advantages of social networking applications (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc.), it is not difficult to find and connect with people around the world. However, it is challenging to build a meaning relationship.
  • It requires the truly understanding of each other in the meaning relationship. To do this, we need to spend time and actively communicate with people within the network.
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People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot. If you don’t change your mind frequently, you’re going to be wrong a lot. - Jeff Bezos
Topics: mindset, growth

2023-2-18

  • Things that you listen to every day can be categorised into two types such as irrelevance and relevance. The growth mindset requires you to adapt you changes. If you are practicing or have the growth mindset, the more you listen to people, the better you are able to filter the irrelevant information, and the better you are able to make good decisions.
  • The process is not straightforward, and hence, it requires you to practice frequently and reflect on the consequences for every decision that you made.