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The Refusal to Give up, No Matter What by Suf Alkhaldi

Brownsville, Vermont during 4th of July celebration We have all read or heard stories of ordinary people who have overcome daunting challenges. I am always fascinated by these people. How did they rise to this level of challenge? Every time I encounter a problem, I always remind myself that others have undoubtedly faced something similar, but in the end they were able to turn things around,…

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#Critical thinking #Defining a problem

The Best and Worst Advice by Suf Alkhaldi "I would urge people to foster a love of reading. Start as early as you can and keep on reading."

#Advice #Bill Gates #Reading

The Goal of Knowing Yourself Creates a Good Life by Suf Alkhaldi

Which career to choose depends on knowing yourself

As we are in a society filled with the attraction of abundance, it becomes very hard to decide what you want exactly. The balancing act between what you want and what is good for you creates a daily struggle for all of us. We all want to be disciplined and achieve our daily goals as well as our life goals. The trick to achieving these goals —…

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#focus #Simple questions

Honesty, rudeness, and not knowing (chauffeur knowledge) are not the same by Suf Alkhaldi

I have to be honest with you is one phrase I hate to hear in meetings or in personal conversations. As much as I love to have people be honest with me all of the time, I have started noticing that this phrase is usually used by people who act like jerks. Humility and honesty are the most important attributes when selecting a friend. Nobody likes fake people. Nobody likes people who are not…

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#chauffeur knowledge #Max Planck

The Joy of Missing Out By Suf Alkhaldi

The joy of missing out JOMO

I am an extrovert who loves to talk to people. I find conversation with people rewarding. I usually call my colleagues to meet at lunch. I get three rejections a week from people being busy, and they have to work during lunch. It is very rare for me to work during lunch. I consider lunch to be a great breathing time for my mind and a time to indulge in personal…

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#FOMO #JOMO #The fear of missing out #The joy of missing out

The Refusal to Give up, no Matter What by Suf Alkhaldi

The power to refuse of giving up

Ordinary people, when faced with unimaginable challenges, have still refused to give up. What is the secret behind this stamina? Resilience can be cultivated. I have never seen anyone who was able to move forward in life with great success without developing the resilience to accept failure. Most of these people use their failure to draw a map of what works and…

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#Building a habit #failure #resilience

Why you Should not Impress the People you Dislike by Suf Alkhaldi

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Why you Should not Impress the People you Dislike by Suf Alkhaldi

As much as I would love to impress people with my talent, I found this pursuit leads to misery. We all like to be loved and adored. We seek this endless path leading us to emptiness and exhaustion.

Don’t impress people you dislike.

Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I could not know the difference between admiration and love. I did a lot of stupid things to impress girls and people who I did…

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#Growth mindset #motivation #small decisions

Why you should aim for 100 rejections by Suf Alkhaldi

The power of rejection is a true path to achieve a lot in our life. The difference between high and moderate achievers boils down to how much we can handle rejections. Successful achievers have more rejections than anybody in their field. Failure for high achievers becomes a normal price they accept. It does not matter the size or the numbers of the failures. Elon Musk’s rocket launch suffered…

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#100 rejections #Simple questions

Why it is not important what people think about you by Suf Alkhaldi

It is almost impossible not to hear this statement when you talk to someone: what would so-and-so think or say? My mind immediately shoots this subliminal fast response: who cares what people think or this person thinks! This question generates anxiety in many people, especially young people. Our low self-esteem usually does not let us respond to this question. Experience in living brings wisdom…

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#Meditation #Sedona Method

Why traveling is a great educational opportunity by Suf Alkhaldi

Taal Volcano: The view was spectacular

In the last four years, I started to travel to many places with my wife after our son left home — first to college and then for a job. So far, we visited Jordan, Jerusalem, Kuwait, Dubai, and Iceland. Traveling is the most efficient way to learn about people, places, and to have a ton of fun. Karl Pilmer the author of “30 Lessons for loving: Advice from the…

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#Philippines #travel

My deep learning skills for 2017 by Suf Alkhaldi

The new skills to learn in 2017

As the new year of 2017 is approaching very soon, I usually spend some time to decide what kind of skills I need to develop in the next year. To select a skill, I spent some time thinking. I like to select skills to give me the highest level of impact and return on my time. This is what I came up with for the new skill:

Skill 1: Learning to be wrong

I usually…

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#2017 #Deep learning

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) eye in the sky breakthrough By Suf Alkhaldi

Constant surveillance from the sky using AI

The idea of doing 24-hour surveillance of a whole city from the air and waiting for a crime to happen before using the surveillance tape to go back and follow where the perpetrator came from is a game-changer in law enforcement. Russ McNutt, a graduate of MIT, was able to build this technology with the help of a powerful AI Algorithm. The company…

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#AI #Artificial Intelligence #Google

Why do you need a mentor? By Suf Alkhaldi

Why mentoring is important

If you are a go-getter and don’t have a mentor, you are really missing out of a great source of knowledge and wisdom. Having a mentor is as important as having a job. All the research conducted on high-power achievers shows that they all have one thing in common: they all have great mentors. Having a mentor or mentors (like I do) not only helps you to advance and…

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#Deep work #Mentor #motivation

The illusion of being busy by Suf Alkhaldi

One of the most common reasons people use as an excuse not to call, respond to emails, or even conduct meaningful work, is the excuse of being busy. I have grown to dislike this word through the years. Even when I am very busy, I vowed not to use this word as an excuse. I found that being busy is really an announcement that I am incapable of organizing my time to meet what is important. Every…

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#Building a habit #Cal Newport #focus

Focus on your energy level to do deep work by Suf Alkhaldi

Through the years, I have tried to make time to achieve my work and goals. I thought that setting a time frame was the most important element to reach a goal. Although I still believe that this is important, I have discovered that time allocation to achieve a goal might not be the best factor for reaching a target efficiently. What is more important is deciding on the energy level needed to…

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#Cal Newport #Deep work

How AI solves depression and finds cancer by Suf Alkhaldi

AI will make our life much easier

Artificial Intelligence AI moves us in different fields of life, faster than we thought even two years ago. Using AI in diagnosing bipolar depression as well as other illnesses has created a buzz in scientific communities so that many startups have started to use it. One of these companies is NeuroLex Diagnostics Inc. The company has developed a powerful…

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#Artificial Intelligence #cancer #depression

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