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How to Achieve your Most Ambitious Goals

How to Achieve your Most Ambitious Goals

In his TED talk, Stephen Duneier explains that what defines him are not titles, but an approach to decision making that transformed him from someone who struggled with simple tasks to a guy who is continuously achieving even his most ambitious dreams.

For thirty years, he has applied cognitive science to investing, business and life. The result has been the turnaround of numerous…

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How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson

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I'm ambitious and I think I have an attention span of just 5 seconds lolz.

That's why I really love this talk. Aside from it being entertaining, I love that he achieved seemingly amazing things, but like I always believed they were achieved because a person put effort to it.

How did he do it when he said he cannot focus to anything for more than 5 to 10 minutes at a time? He used the term: marginal adjustment.

Here's a transcript of a part of his talk that I want to apply:

"...through the second year of college I was  a really consistent c- student, but then going into my junior year, I had enough, I thought I want to make a change, I'm gonna make a marginal adjustment and I'm going to stop being a spectator in my own decision-making and start becoming an active participant.

And so that year, instead of pretending again that I would suddenly be able to settle down and focus on things for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time, I decided to assume, I wouldn't. And so, if I wanted to achieve the type of outcome that I desired, doing well in school, I was gonna actually have to change my approach and so I made a marginal adjustment.

If I would get an assignment, let's say read 5 chapters in a book, I wouldn't think of it as 5 chapters, I wouldn't even think of it as one chapter, I would break it down into these tasks that I could achieve, that would require me to focus for just 5 or 10 minutes at a time, so maybe 3 or four paragraphs, that's it, I would do that.

When I was done with those 5 or 10 minutes, I would get up, I would shoot some hoops, do a little drawing, maybe play video games for a few minutes. And then I'd come back, not necessarily to the same assignment, not even necessarily to the same subject, but to another task that required just 5 to 10 minutes of my attention.

From that point forward, all the way through graduation, I was a straight A student. Dean's List, President's honor roll, every semester."

Here's the full talk:

That's what I'm going to do too for this one thing that I've always wanted to do but never really done anything to achieve it: Learn to play the piano.

***I'm going to play the Lakehouse by Rachel Portman***

I really want to do that, but I have lots of excuses not to achieve it. It's the most tangible thing to achieve for me at this time.

I have a lot of other goals like learning kpop dances, have a blog with lots of visitors, earn money through my blog, but it seems too much for me, I can't wrap it around my head how I can achieve these, but with the piano thing, it's simple, but the keyboard, have piano lessons then practice. Simple but not easy lolz.

I will update this blogpost later with more of my thoughts, for now, I'm going to publish this so that i will have a reminder to do a marginal adjustment.

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If you ever get mad that you've made a mistake in a previous row of crochet, remember:

Stephen Duneier found a mistake in the previous row of his granny square...3,700 double-crochets/five hours of work later. 

He didn't go back to fix it either.