Watched this dope TED Talk on Saturday morning (10/3/15)
- Marshmallow Test
- Intelligence – Not chess intelligence, not business school intelligence. Adaptive intelligence: when you’re running down the street and a lamp post is coming towards you… seeing the lamp post coming and changing your course.
- Energy – health and a bias to action. People who don’t get ill often, people when they get a cold there back to work tomorrow cause they recover quick, they sleep well. Bias to action: people have a tendency to take action over thinking about action.
- Integrity – saying “no” to most things. An alignment between what your calendar says you do and what you say you do.
Tools:
- Intelligence: write stuff down. If you write down ideas, people you’ve met, and things that are going on, 6 months from now you won’t be the intelligence of one moment: you’ll be the accumulated intelligence of six months of ideas, things written down, and people’s quotes.
- Energy: High-performance athletes… never let his mind see more than the next fifteen minutes. never further than stroke, stroke, breath. Climb everest one step at a time. What’s the next step? Deal with next unit
- Integrity: T-I-M-E. This world is full of good intention… But, if you say your parents are important to you, open the diary and show me the hours. The coherence between a diary and your values is where integrity begins. And it’s kind of horrific when you start to look and become aware of where your time goes. So little of my time really goes to the things that I mean to do. So often I slip off into Facebook and what was supposed to be a minute, is an hour, and then lunch comes. But once you start to get the minutes dedicated things that matter… success in life is not one massive good decision. Success, is repeated, consistent, good habits.
We so underestimate what we can achieve in a year and so overestimate what we can achieve in a day. A page a day and you have a book in a year: you’ll never write a book in one day.