World Quest

If life is a game, then its main narrative is a world quest.

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A shortcut for learning in life

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How do you professionally say...

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https://youtu.be/1wBD0UPeH88

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

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He, who has a 'why', can bear almost any 'how'

Nietzsche

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How To Be A Genius

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “in the minds of genius, we find once more our own neglected thoughts.”

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He deserves it, but do you?

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Goal Setting Is a Hamster Wheel. Learn to Set Systems Instead. | Adam Alter

Setting a goal traps one in a failure state until the goal is reached. Instead of that, it is better to have a system. For example, spending one hour each day just exercising, (not too important to measure progress). Because is it a daily event, progress will be made. By finishing each hour a day, one feel accomplished each and also know that progress is being made.

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Play this word game to come up with original ideas

Shimpei Takahashi always dreamed of designing toys. But when he started work as a toy developer, he found that the pressure to produce squashed his creativity. In this short, funny talk, Takahashi describes how he got his ideas flowing again, and shares a simple word game anyone can play to generate new ideas. (In Japanese with English subtitles.)

Combine random words to create new ideas.

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In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

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The science of improving your brain’s creativity | Nick Skillicorn | TED...

Notes:

Everyone is creative.

Myth: left brain vs right brain.

Creativity: producing a new idea which has value to someone money value, social value, artistic value.

Are all ideas good? Steps: - Memories - Ordinary ideas - Special ideas

How to have a special idea? 1. Preparation. Build on already own ideas. 2. Incubation. Step away and brain form new ideas. 3. Eureka. Illumination. 4. Verify.

Nature vs Nurture

Is art the solution? Not all artists are creative. Performing other people's ideas.

Measure creativity - Can you be objective?

Neuroscience and psychology - Think of as many uses of razor blade - on average 4 individual idea per minute - total number of ideas - kinds of ideas.

What is triggering your ideas? Brain has a different frequency at different state. Wake up - alpha state Work/study - beta state

Generate ideas, subconsciously - brain need alpha state Test ideas - brain need beta state

What is inhibiting your ideas? Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Control impulses.

Enhancing your creativity. Temporary solutions: 1. Getting into Alpha mental state. Taking a walk, day dreaming. Relaxing. 2. changing surroundings. Variety for brain. 3. changing your routine. making a sandwich a new way. Walk to school in a different way.

Long term: 1. Regular creativity challenges. Sudoku. 2. Improvisation training. Stop dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. 3. Gather new knowledge and variety. Being curious.

Final thought Do something about the new ideas.

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Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth

From motivational, psychological perspective

Grit is living life like a marathon, not a sprint.

Growth mindset. An idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck. It is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort.

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Agile programming -- for your family

Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature: Kids pick their own punishments.

Agile methodology for families.

Power of check mark Morning check list

3 questions What worked well this week? What didn't not well this week? What to work on next week?

1. Adapt all the time 10 mins of valuable time during family dinner. Time-shift family dinner. Be flexible, be open minded. Let best idea win.

2. Empower your children Enlist your children in their parenting. It's a practice to become independent.

3. Tell your story

Preserve the core. Stimulate progress. Family mission statement. e.g. we are travelers, not tourists. Worry less about bad times, build up the good times. Do you know stories of the families? A narrative of the history of the child family. What hardship family members overcame?

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The art of doing twice as much in half the time | Jeff Sutherland | TEDxAix

Jeff Sutherland Co-writer of the Agile Manifesto, co-creator of the SCRUM process.

* Make Work Visible

Dwight Eisenhower: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything

* Landing a project Responsibily to fix the problem. Self organized to make it happen.

* Continuous Improvement

* Nonaka and Takeuchi 1. Gantt chart 2. Transitional strategy at Fuji Xerox 3. Honda. Manufacturing.

2 & 3. SCRUM process