If you find yourself gazing at screens all day, your eye doctor may have mentioned this rule to you. Basically, every 20 minutes spent using a screen, you should try to look away at something that is 20 feet away from you for a total of 20 seconds.
It takes about 20 seconds for your eyes to completely relax.
Peterson’s 12 rules Rule 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders back Rule 2 Treat yourself like you would someone you are responsible for helping Rule 3 Make friends with people who want the best for you Rule 4 Compare yourself with who you were yesterday, not with who someone else is today Rule 5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them Rule 6 Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world Rule 7 Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) Rule 8 Tell the truth – or, at least, don’t lie Rule 9 Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t Rule 10 Be precise in your speech Rule 11 Do not bother children when they are skate-boarding Rule 12 Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
One thing about business that people don’t realize: it takes just as much effort to create a small business as it does to create a large one.
Whether you’re Elon Musk or the guy running three Italian restaurants in town, you’re working 80 hours a week; you’re sweating bullets; you’re hiring and firing people; you’re trying to balance the books; it’s highly stressful; and it takes years and years of your life.
In one case, you get companies worth $50-$100 billion and everyone’s adulation. In the other, you might make a little bit of money and you’ve got some nice restaurants. So think big.
Sometimes I fail to follow what I say, But I never fail to try.
Everything I say may be wrong.
Marco Polo is merchant who wrote about the ancient silk road. Before many of them traveled through that, but he only wrote it down. Chris who found the css-tricks is similar to him, he wrote about css and eventually build a business from it.
Think through the people who are well known in your industry. Why do you know who they are?
Are they the most talented? Sometimes, but often not.
Almost always it is because they teach.
The way I see it, you have two options: keep your skills and knowledge to yourself and be quickly forgotten (like the first explorers) or take the Marco Polo/Chris Coyier path and share what you’ve learned so that you will be remembered.
Longevity researcher Dan Buettner on the health benefits of friendship:
I argue that the most powerful thing you can do to add healthy years is to curate your immediate social network. In general, you want friends with whom you can have a meaningful conversation. You can call them on a bad day and they will care. Your group of friends are better than any drug or anti-aging supplement, and will do more for you than just about anything."
The Feynman Learning Technique is a simple way of approaching anything new you want to learn.
When you really learn something, you give yourself a tool to use for the rest of your life. The more you know, the fewer surprises you will encounter, because most new things will connect to something you already understand.
There are four steps to the Feynman Learning Technique, based on the method Richard Feynman originally used. The steps are as follows:
The Feynman Technique is not only a wonderful recipe for learning but also a window into a different way of thinking that allows you to tear ideas apart and reconstruct them from the ground up.
Life is not a journey. Journey is all about at the end, may be at least sometimes.
May be we are cheating ourselves from school days. we gone into the Kindergarten, School with all grading system that washed out our creativity and intelligence. An we joined a company and work hard day by day for getting to the end may be the success or heaven, whatever it is.
Journey is all about the end.
Actually the universe and life is playful. Its like playing a guitar or dancing, its not about the end. its all about the moving, the present moments.
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road - Paul H Dunn
10 things you may regret when older, if not purposefully, mindfully attended to now, are likely to include: