"Eine der vielen Schrauben, an denen wir gerade drehen, um die letzten Minuten für die Olympia-Norm herauszukitzeln, besteht in der Fettverbrennung beim Rennen. Bei einer Ernährungsberatung wurde uns empfohlen, häufiger nüchtern, also ohne vorher zu essen, zu laufen, und so dem Körper keine Kohlenhydrate zu gönnen. Die Idee ist, dass er dann die Energiebereitstellung aus den Fettreserven optimiert, also auch im Wettkampf die Fettspeicher als einen besseren Zusatzenergie-Tank nutzt. Und am wenigsten im Magen habe ich dann morgens. Also: Frühstück erst nach dem Training... Für mich ist das jedoch etwas Neues, und ich bin gespannt ob es etwas bringt."

Heißt für mich: Da steckt noch soviel Potential drin. In der deutschen Leichtathletik. So viel Verbesserungsmöglichkeit. Erinnern Sie sich? Dezember 1988 in einer Sportzeitschrift: "Fortschritte sind zu erwarten im Fettstoffwechseltraining und beim mentalen Training". Punkt eins ist also 22 Jahre später angekommen. Immerhin...

Sie ahnen, dass ich lächele. Und an Punkt zwei denke.

Near the end of his life, Jobs was visited at home by Larry Page, who was about to resume control of Google, the company he had cofounded. Even though their companies were feuding, Jobs was willing to give some advice. “The main thing I stressed was focus,” he recalled. Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up, he told Page. “It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.” Page followed the advice. In January 2012 he told employees to focus on just a few priorities, such as Android and Google+, and to make them “beautiful,” the way Jobs would have done.

Die anderen Parteien glauben, sie könnten die Piraten überflüssig machen, indem sie ihr Thema besetzen. Sie glauben, das würde reichen. Aber viele Piraten-Anhänger interessieren sich gar nicht für Urheberrecht, Netzsperren oder Vorratsdatenspeicherung.

Es geht nicht ums Internet, sondern um mehr Demokratie

In NRW machen die Piraten mit Bildungs-und Sozialpolitik Wahlkampf. Im Saarland gaben nur 27 Prozent der Piraten-Wähler an, dass ihnen Netzpolitik wichtig sei; die meisten fanden das Thema soziale Gerechtigkeit entscheidend. Aus allen Parteien sind Tausende Stimmen zu den Piraten abgewandert: 85 Prozent der Piraten-Wähler gaben an, mit den anderen Parteien unzufrieden zu sein. Der Erfolg liegt also nicht auf dem Feld der Politik, sondern in der Form der Politik. In ihrer Amateurhaftigkeit. Die Piraten sind so unfertig wie wir alle. So unfertig wie diese Welt.

Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone — best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.

Preston-Werner’s bet has paid off. GitHub is now profitable. Users can sign up for free and start contributing, but they pay money if they want to privately host code there — starting at $7 per month. GitHub also sells an enterprise product that lets companies run your own version of GitHub behind the corporate firewall. That starts at $5,000 per year, but can cost hundreds of thousands annually for companies with hundreds of coders.
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When Scott Chabon wrote a book about GitHub, the first fork appeared within a month. It was a German translation of his book. Now, three years later, it’s been translated into 10 languages, with another 10 translations in the works. Half of the traffic to the book’s website comes from China. “Tons of people in China are learning Git because they can read [the book] in Chinese on my website, because somebody provided that,” he says

Denn die Botschaft des Kölners ist: Sei jung, furchtlos, studiere ein kompliziertes Fach und trainiere jahrelang online, dann kannst du Main-Event-Champion werden.

Druck spürt Bolt ja angeblich nicht, das hat er zuletzt erst wieder gesagt: "Den einzigen Druck, den ich spüre, ist der, unter den ich mich selbst setze."

You get rich by creating value (or at least tying yourself at an opportune moment to a benefactor whose goals are so aligned).
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First, computer programmers are certainly among the most respected trades. You need to interact with a broader cross-section of society if you believe that not to be the case. Second, the baseline for becoming a programmer isn't very high -- certainly nothing on the order of becoming a doctor or lawyer. The median programmer has jumped over far fewer hurdles than the median doctor or lawyer. (I got my first programming job at 17. I'd have needed another decade of non-trivial training before I'd have been able to get a job as a doctor.) The spectrum is far broader for programmers, and as such, the respect a programmer commands has more to do with their actual status within those ranks than simply being a part of that trade. But again, the spectrum extends up to "richest person in the world", so we're hardly being shafted.

FINDING FLOW is not a sappy, vacuous self-help book for the masses--it reminds us intelligently, without cheerleading or condescension, that complaining about a lack of time is a common excuse for not taking control of our lives. It also tells us something we have often heard, but love to forget: flow comes when we have goals, not because achieving them is necessarily important, but because a lack of goals leads to a struggle to concentrate and avoid distractions. This passage reminded me of what my favorite classics professor once told us: "Without Ithaka, there is no Odyssey."

Many great thinkers of the past (Homer, Carlyle, Dr. Seuss) have one way or another said what Csikszentmihalyi says; few have focused on happiness as happiness so successfully, and in so few pages. Find your flow!

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, he explores what makes a person successful and asks the question, "Why do some talented people flame out early while others go on to brilliant careers?"
Malcolm's main premise is, "Success doesn't have much to do with talent. It's almost always a product of hard work and the culture of which we live our lives."
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When you don't have a good perspective, stuff doesn't make sense. Nothing fits. Everything is a one-off. But when you have a good perspective, a good mental model for something, when you see things the right way, stuff starts to make sense. Everything just seems to fit.

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Perspective is infinite. Only the Omniscient see its entirety.
But we often believe that our perspective is the way things are. The whole truth.
Thus it shapes our beliefs, and in so doing, guides our thoughts, our choices, our trajectory.
Perspective separates the visionaries from the uninspired.
The true achievers from the unfortunate.
The enlightened from the confused.
It's the difference in the world.
While your perspective changes over time—it expands and develops—it's uniquely yours.
Focus on it. Develop it.
Through life's journey, be curious, be thoughtful, be open.
Seek other views. Connect overlapping truths. Grow with epiphany.
Life is about perspective.

Chris Gardner

If you have seen the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” about Chris Gardner’s life you will have seen how a dream can change a life.

He was a black man from a small town with very little education. One day he makes the decision to change his life. He is going to be a stock broker and he stakes his entire future on that goal.

He tells his son “If you want something, go get it. Period.”
That is the same philosophy we all have to adopt if we are to succeed.

"Ich habe einfach versucht, mich wie immer nur auf mein Spiel zu fokussieren." Er denke, dass "das ganz gut gelungen" sei.

> I think the most profound thing about the post was that it showed a striking difference between determined practice and directed practice. Just being determined and putting in the hours will _not_ be sufficient to pass a plateau of learning. Sometimes you need _directed_ learning to push you past that plateau.

This is exactly right. Ericsson and the related expertise psychology literature calls your directed learning 'deliberate practice'. Have you read the _Cambridge Handbook_ or his 1993 paper http://www.gwern.net/docs/1993-ericsson-deliberatepractice.p... ?

"Auf diesem anspruchsvollen Berg erarbeite ich mir ich die Grundlage für meine Wettkämpfe auf der Straße. Das Laufen fällt selbst mir in dieser extremen Höhe schwer. Aber dieser Berg, das ist unser großer Vorteil", sagt Gebrselassie. Das Höhentrainingslager, für das viele Sportler teuer reisen müssen – der Superstar der internationalen Laufszene hat es vor der Haustür

Reading every single trade journal, for example, or understanding the marketing, engineering and sales of your field--there are countless ways to go deep instead of merely paying lip service to the current flavor of the moment

“My focus is on helping the customers, and as long as we’re doing that, I don’t care about the projections.”

Filled with rules and tales about management, the gray-colored Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management was originally part of a PowerPoint presentation the CEO made to engineers and scientists at the Waltham defense giant.

The secret to underwater swimming is going deep early. The trainees learn that if they swim along the bottom in deeper water, the increased partial pressure of oxygen in their lungs will allow them to hold their breath longer and swim farther.

Der Dortmunder Trainer Jürgen Klopp ist - wie auch Hitzfeld - sehr religiös; beide beten nach eigener Aussage jeden Tag. "Jeder Glaube gibt einem Halt und hilft einem, seine inneren Überzeugungen zu bewahren", sagte Hitzfeld der SZ. "Gerade in schwierigen Zeiten."

But money finds a home only in places where it’s appreciated. I didn’t appreciate the money. So it left me.

SZ: Es kommt also nicht von ungefähr, dass eine Werbeagentur bei ihrem Nachwuchs in einem Vorauswahlverfahren erst mal das Basiswissen prüft, bevor es ans Kreative geht?

Holm-Hadulla: Genau. Wer zielgerichtet brainstormen will, muss Wissen und handwerkliches Können mitbringen.

“Operate as if you were the CEO of the company.”

There are two reasons generally cited as explanations for PHP's popularity success:

1.

Accessibility: PHP is everywhere, on the servers maintained by pretty much every shared hosting provider that offers support for server side Web development above and beyond the humble SSI.
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Accessibility: PHP is incredibly easy to pick up and use for the simplest tasks, such that for many it turns simplistic Web development into unskilled labor. Thousands of "dynamic Websites" are floating around out there, built in PHP by people who are not even aware of the difference between include() and require() in the language.

For my part, I want to encourage people to make their own languages, because doing it makes you a world-class programmer. Seriously. Not just a better programmer, but a best programmer. I've said it before, and I'm sticking with it: having a deep understanding of compilers is what separates the wheat from the chaff. I say that without having the slightest frigging clue what "chaff" is, but let's assume it's some sort of inferior wheat substitute, possibly made from tofu.............D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project.
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Here's a short list of programming-language features that have become ad-hoc standards that everyone expects:

Object-literal syntax for arrays and hashes
Array slicing and other intelligent collection operators
Perl 5 compatible regular expression literals
Destructuring bind (e.g. x, y = returnTwoValues())
Function literals and first-class, non-broken closures
Standard OOP with classes, instances, interfaces, polymorphism, etc.
Visibility quantifiers (public/private/protected)
Iterators and generators
List comprehensions
Namespaces and packages
Cross-platform GUI
Operator overloading
Keyword and rest parameters
First-class parser and AST support
Static typing and duck typing
Type expressions and statically checkable semantics
Solid string and collection libraries
Strings and streams act like collections
Additionally, NBL will have first-class continuations and call/cc. I hear it may even (eventually) have a hygienic macro system, although not in any near-term release.

After a long introspective night of thinking and writing, I got myself into the delegation mindset.

I had to make myself un-necessary to the running of my company.

Oder haben Sie es noch nie erlebt, dass ein Dünnbrettbohrer befördert wurde? Ein Leistungszwerg belobigt? Ein Schaumschläger zum Vorbild erklärt? Dass einer, wie Heinz Erhardt es ausdrückt, glänzt, obwohl er keinen Schimmer hat? Eine Studie beim Computerkonzern IBM ergab schon vor Jahren: Ob jemand befördert wird, hängt nur zu 10 Prozent von seiner Leistung ab und zu 90 Prozent davon, wie er sie verkauft und mit seinen Chefs auskommt – von der gefühlten Leistung.
Egal, ob Sie ein wichtiges Projekt stemmen, eine geniale Idee entwickeln oder einen Markt erschließen: Sorgen Sie dafür, dass Ihr 100-Meter-Lauf publik wird. Spielen Sie den Regisseur Ihrer eigenen Leistung, erzeugen Sie Bilder und Szenen. Reden Sie bei Meetings und Kongressen, schreiben Sie Hausmitteilungen und Fachbeiträge, lassen Sie die Chefetage von Ihrem Husarenstreich wissen – so lange, bis Ihr Name wie ein Gütesiegel an der Leistung haftet. Glänzen ist nämlich erlaubt – sofern Sie einen Schimmer haben.

Go where there isn’t competition
Everyone is doing web startups now. Go work on quantum computing – you will have almost zero competition. Key to success: you’re passionate about it, few others are working on it, and it matters if you solve it.

2) Have An End In Mind ñ Without One You Are Just Wasting Time

Know what you want and this will help to guide you along your journey. It is necessary to take massive action, but it will be useless if you do not know where you want to end up at. You need to keep rowing to move the boat forward. However, you will end up at places you don’t want to be if you don’t know where you are rowing towards.

If you do not know what you truly want to achieve in your life, find out what you are dissatisfied with. It is a good place to start. Be aware of your dissatisfaction in your life and set a goal to turn it around. Make it a goal to lose weight if you are dissatisfied with how you feel and look. Make plans to get out of debt. Find ways to start a business. Just get an end to your mind so you can start to work towards it.

Captain Beefheart ist gestorben. Der einflussreiche Musiker und Zappa-Kumpel Don Van Vliet erlag mit 69 Jahren einer schweren Krankheit. Er hielt nichts vom musikalischen Mainstream - und wurde so zum einflussreichen Helden einer Generation von Musikern. Zuletzt lebte er als Maler in Kalifornien...................Die Plattenproduzenten seien sich immer sicher gewesen, dass Van Vliet kurz vor dem Durchbruch gestanden habe, hieß es 1970 in einem Porträt im "Rolling Stone". "Aber Beefheart macht stur weiter und wartet geduldig darauf, dass alle anderen zu ihm kommen."

Es muss kein Nachteil sein, weich zu verhandeln – vorausgesetzt, man versteht das Gegenüber. Worauf es bei erfolgreichen Verhandlungen ankommt.

Schlafen macht schön. Was der Volksmund sagt, haben Forscher jetzt auch wissenschaftlich bestätigt: In einer Studie ließen sie Probanden die Gesichter von unterschiedlich ausgeschlafenen Menschen beurteilen. Schlafmangel erkannten sie sofort - er beeinflusst die Attraktivität.

Müßiggang ist aller Laster Anfang? Von wegen! Wahre Könner wissen um den Wert der täglichen Ruhepause, argumentiert Buchautor Ulrich Schnabel. Denn wer schläft, meditiert oder schlicht nichts tut, steigert Wohlbefinden, Kreativität und Leistungskraft.

Noch einmal, mit Verstand

Endlich: Schulleiter und Lehrer lassen sich mehr einfallen, um den Leistungsstandard anzuheben. Welche Methoden Schülern wirklich helfen, zeigen drei Beispiele aus Bremen, Hildesheim und Gelsenkirchen.

I think the most useful thing I’ve learned over time is to create a presence online, from day one. Create a Facebook account and a Twitter account. Create a website, even if all it does is get you indexed in Google. Have a footer with links to an About page or a Team page, policy pages, and maybe even a jobs page that says you’re not looking for hires at the moment (this link alone changes your project, in my mind, from a side-project to a full-fledged business). Create a CrunchBase entry about you and your business.

I did something yesterday that doubled my daily coding performance. It was easy, cheap, and made a tremendous difference in my life.

K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist who is widely credited with having formulated the 10,000-hour rule, says in "The Making of an Expert," a 2007 article summarizing his research, that "experts are always made, not born." He discounts the role played by innate talent, citing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as an example: "Nobody questions that Mozart's achievements were extraordinary. . . . What's often forgotten, however, is that his development was equally exceptional for his time. His musical tutelage started before he was four years old, and his father, also a skilled composer, was a famous music teacher and had written one of the first books on violin instruction. Like other world-class performers, Mozart was not born an expert—he became one."

What's the mystery there? Bobby Fischer was completely obsessed with chess and played and studied it incessantly.

9 years of manic dedication and he "suddenly" got good.

His mother spoke something like 8 languages and his father was a Hungarian physicist who headed the Theoretical Mechanics section of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and was an expert in elasticity and fluid dynamics.

6 points by jgalvez

Believing for so long that I needed someone's money to build something.

After being unemployed for a little over 3 months earlier this year, I built a product on my own (instead of going for the safe job option, and taking the huge of risk of, you know, running out of food money) and managed to get it acquired by a media company here in Sao Paulo.

And that was quite possibly greatest lesson of my life.

Take risks. It pays off.


2 points by sfphotoarts 1 hour ago | link

I'm not sure this is very good advice. The people that are likely to comment here (as with product reviews) are those with unordinary experiences. Yours was positive and I am glad for you, however, for every good experience like this I suspect there are many that regret such actions.

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2 points by jgalvez 1 hour ago | link

I think you have to measure things with care. I always thought that if worse came to worst, I could always still get a shitty PHP coding job.

3. Imagination

Intelligence does matter a lot of course. It seems like the type that matters most is imagination. It's not so important to be able to solve predefined problems quickly as to be able to come up with surprising new ideas. In the startup world, most good ideas seem bad initially. If they were obviously good, someone would already be doing them. So you need the kind of intelligence that produces ideas with just the right level of craziness.

Airbnb is that kind of idea. In fact, when we funded Airbnb, we thought it was too crazy. We couldn't believe large numbers of people would want to stay in other people's places. We funded them because we liked the founders so much. As soon as we heard they'd been supporting themselves by selling Obama and McCain branded breakfast cereal, they were in. And it turned out the idea was on the right side of crazy after all.

23 points by aspir 5 hours ago | link

I'm a former NCAA wrestler who's finished 2 marathons (with the blazing times of 5:01:00 and 5:00:30). All I can say is that anytime you push through a mental barrier, you become that much stronger. Your mental limitations are like muscular limitations - the more you push to the limit, the more powerful you become.

I absolutely believe that there's nothing I cannot do, given the time and energy. I've run 2 marathons at the point of mental fatigue. I've cut as many as 20 lbs in a week for wrestling. I finished a college degree with honors while getting at least a dozen confirmed concussions, who knows how many unconfirmed, and while still competing.

I really feel like I can conquer anything. I actually gave up NCAA to work for free at as many startups I could during my 4th year to do the jobs that no one wanted to do. I definitely feel like a made the right decision. I can't be a pro wrestler these days :)

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Any tips or lessons learned from the travel-preparation process? The most important lesson for us was the power of a budget. By creating savings goals and monitoring our monthly spending, we were able to accumulate the needed resources much more quickly than we thought possible. Prior to this plan, we didn’t hold ourselves to a budget, and sometimes we think back and lament all of the money we could have saved.

The point is that if you’re anything like me, someone working a good office job but looking for something more in line with passions, don’t let money be an excuse. You can put together a plan that will turn a dream into a reality.

To succeed twice as fast, fail twice as much. Fail often, fail daily, and soon you will succeed. Jordan said, “I’ve never been afraid to fail.”

Höchstleistung bedeutet, dass eine neue Idee verfolgt werden muss. Ausdauernd. Eisern. Mit enormem Einsatz. Genau dieser Punkt wird in der Regel vergessen. Man glaubt, die Erfindung eines neuen Motores würde die Autoindustrie revolutionieren. Pustekuchen. Keine Firma ist interessiert. Es gibt tausende von gescheiterten Erfindern ... Die wussten nicht, dass nach der genialen neuen Idee, nach dem kreativen Schöpfungsmoment erst die Arbeit beginnt. Und diese Fähigkeit, nämlich Höchstleistung andauernd zu bringen, kann man lernen. Kann man üben.

Now, for the first time, Sculley talks publicly about Steve Jobs and the secrets of his success. It’s the first interview Sculley has given on the subject of Steve Jobs since he was forced out of the company in 1993.

It’s a myth that only highly intelligent people are creative.

In fact, research shows that once you get beyond an I.Q. of about 120, which is just a little above average, intelligence and creativity are not at all related.

That means that even if you’re no smarter than most people, you still have the potential to wield amazing creative powers.

So why are so few people highly creative?

Because there are bad habits people learn as they grow up which crush the creative pathways in the brain. And like all bad habits, they can be broken if you are willing to work at it.

Here are eight of the very worst bad habits that could be holding you back every day:

A Four Step Process for Solving Hard Problem Sets

The motivating idea behind this strategy is simple: your brain can only work productively on a hard problem for 1 -3 hours before needing to reboot. To reboot your brain, so more productive work can be accomplished, requires a significant break. Preferably overnight.

Here’s a four step strategy built around this idea. It mimics the work schedule of the typical high-scoring technical student.

Build a publicly verifiable resume

What you tell in your resume are things like contact information, performance in academia, programming languages you know, projects you’ve worked on and other such stuff. There is very little in this document which can be verified easily. This is a problem for you as well as for the prospective employer because:

1. It may not represent you, your skills and your hard work sufficiently enough
2. It makes hiring a game of chance for the prospective employer and prevents them from making more informed decisions

The best thing about contributing to an open source project is that everything you do is public. So you can say things like the following:

* I have worked on this project for the last two years
* I wrote features X, Y and Z on Project P
* I have over two hundred posts on the user forum or mailing list
* I have commit access to the project
* I am the expert because “I wrote it”
....Companies will find you

“But when you work on an idea you came up with yourself, your life is not like that. There is no enemy, apart from that vague and shifting demon called doubt. Your greatest enemy is yourself, your fear, you uncertainty, your doubt. So it’s all very hard.”..............................“To make my first business, I walked into an IT training center and studied Java for a month with them. I took photos of the place, I questioned all the students, I discovered how much salary the teachers were paid. Then I found a better location, made a nicer place and offered his teachers 10% higher salary.”
“I drove him out of business, and I repeated the same process with my second business, a hotel. Since then, I’ve been doing that – I find a successful business, I discover as much as possible about it, re-implement it all, then battle them for supremacy.”

Point of view is worth 80 IQ points.
explanation 1: At PARC we had a slogan: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points." It was based on a few things from the past like how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. We haven't gotten any smarter, we've just changed our representation system. We think better generally by inventing better representations; that's something that we as computer scientists recognize as one of the main things that we try to do.

another explanation: what is special about the computer is analogous to and an advance on what was special about writing and then printing. It's not about automating past forms that has the big impact, but as McLuhan pointed out, when you are able to change the nature of representation and argumentation, those who learn these new ways will wind up to be qualtitatively different and better thinkers, and this will (usually) help advance our limited conceptions of civilization (source)

Allow yourself to follow your inner artist child who has always dreamt you can do great things with your life … if you only listened to him and stopped making excuses.......................................By taking the risk and jumping, the net will appear in ways you cannot imagine. If you never take risks and leap without knowing whether you’ll come out alive or not, you’ll never realize if the net will be there for you when you jump.

‘One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.’

8 points by DanielBMarkham 38 minutes ago | link

People wondering why you didn't leave

You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.

I have been very, very poor. And I've made a million bucks in a short amount of time. In fact, I've flopped back and forth about as many times as anybody I know, so I know both sides of this.

I would not idolize poverty as some kind of state of nobility, and I would't spend a lot of time agonizing over it either. It is a thing that happens to you, like cancer. You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation. The last day of your life, if you were lying in a ditch somewhere, you can still choose how to confront the end of your existence. These choices are all we own. The only person that can stop you making choices is yourself. It is extremely possible to dwell on all the bad things in life and despair.

If you are poor and reading this, whatever you do, please don't despair. ....................

Glaubenssätze heißen bewusst so. Sie glauben. Sie sind innerlich felsenfest überzeugt. Und das bestimmt Ihre Haltung, bestimmt die Partei, die Sie wählen, bestimmt Ihren Lebenserfolg oder eben Misserfolg. Ihr innerer Glaube.

2. Schedule Your Priorities
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Schedule your priorities. If it’s important, it must be scheduled. What you don’t schedule won’t get done. Know your priorities, and center your day on those activities.

Which brings me to my next point…

3. Never Forget the Main Thing
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

Never lose sight of the “big picture,” keep the main thing the main thing. Broken focus is the number one reason people fail. It’s not enough to start off on the right track; you must successfully avoid the unnecessary distractions and attractions of life which aim to sidetrack you.

Keep the main thing, the main thing!

"Energy flows where attention goes"

Beschreibt die deutsche Wirklichkeit so wundervoll. Womit wir uns beschäftigen, was wir täglich in den Medien schreiben und lesen, das ... wird wahr. Wirkt immer so anklagend. Ein kurze geistiger Schlenker lässt doch auch bei Ihnen den wundervollen Gedanken aufblitzen: Was passiert eigentlich, wenn ich mich den ganzen Tag geistig mit etwas beschäftige, was ich zutiefst gerne hätte?

Ja mei: Dann wird's halt wahr. Das Leben ist einfach ...

Nice guy, though, but nothing special. I couldn't figure out how he did it, so one time I just asked him. 'How do you get so many girls to go out "with you?' He was a man of few words, kind of Coolidge-esque, if you know what I mean. So all he said was: 'I get rejected ninety percent of the time. But it's that ten percent.'"

And this isn't true only of dating life, but of startup life and many other fields (including my own: writing). I actually teach a chapter of Self-Made Man to my freshmen (I'm a grad student in English at the U of Arizona), and part of the reason I do it is for what she says about rejection (and about empathy).

In the past five years, I’ve learned that I can do anything I set my mind to. Get out of debt? After I stopped talking and started doing, I got out of debt quicker than I thought possible. Losing 50 pounds? Well, I’m not there yet, but I’ve lost over 30 pounds since January 1st — but it didn’t happen until I stopped talking about it and started working hard to make it happen. Learning French? Well, there’s one where my talk outpaces my action right now, and it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say actions speak louder than words. I don’t study my French as much as I should, so basically all I can do is count and tell you what color my clothes are. (”J’ai deux chemise noir.”)

5 points by josefresco 16 hours ago | link

I see your quote and raise it...

"Good artists copy great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso

24 points by patio11
Strong agreement. You learn a lot more by doing than by fantasizing about doing some day. You'll also get a lot more mileage out of your book (or web) learning with just a little practical experience. I guarantee you, within 2 weeks of hanging out your shingle you'll have a radically different, improved perspective on where your actual business challenges are. (The stupid,....................)

My one suggestion: get a mentor. Plumb them for advice. Thomas has taught me more about consulting (beginning with "You know, you could do consulting.") in three minute chunks than I managed to learn in my entire life, even in six years while employed by businesses which did consulting.
....................the key to success is so simple -- just finish everything.

Wenn Sie glauben, Doppelbelastung sei schließlich ein Fakt, so täuschen Sie sich. Es gibt keine Wirklichkeit. Es gibt nur Ihre Sicht von der Wirklichkeit. Es gibt nur Ihre Glaubenssätze. Und die freilich - gefährlich, gefährlich! - sind immer wahr. Werden wahr. Setzen sich durch.

Success is not about having an idea or lacking arms or being in the right spot at the right time. It’s about breaking out of your apathy and just doing stuff. Really, that’s all there is to it. Take what you have and what you don’t have and make something out of it. Stop waiting.

einestages: Aber gibt es für Sie einen ganz bestimmten Schlüsselmoment in der Geschichte des Cube?

Rubik: Nein, für mich nicht. Es gibt eine Reihe von Momenten auf dem Erfolgsweg des Cube, aber nicht den einen. Für mich waren und sind immer nur die Gefühle entscheidend, die ich mit Dingen verbinde. Und beim Cube habe ich daran geglaubt, dass er die Menschen begeistern könnte. Es hat sechs Jahre gedauert von der ersten Idee zum Cube bis zur Marktreife, aber ich habe die Faszination gespürt, die darin liegt und die hat mir die Kraft gegeben, weiterzumachen. Ich habe Geduld gehabt und es hat sich ausgezahlt. Wenn du nicht warten kannst, verlierst du.

7. Vision

“Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road.”

–Laing Burns, Jr.

Vision is your ability to see down the road. Use your imagination to see all the way down the road. I like what Robert Collier said, he said, “The great successful men of the world have used their imagination, they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.”

Keep on building, and your vision will become your reality. Keep on building and success will be yours.

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"Fischer war eine intellektuelle Herausforderung, er war ein unglaublich lernfähiger, guter Politiker – er hat nahezu jeden Fehler gemacht, aber immer nur ein Mal", sagte Koch in dem Gespräch. Fischer war 1985 Umweltminister der ersten rot-grünen Landesregierung in Hessen geworden. Koch zog 1987 erstmals in den hessischen Landtag ein, wo er Anfangs für Umweltpolitik zuständig war.

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It's curious to see someone who describes himself as "over a decade into my training as a professional scientist" commit the most basic of logical fallacies:

Gladwell: When we look at any kind of cognitively complex field ... you are unlikely to master it unless you have practiced for 10,000 hours.

Author: This rule reduces achievement to quantity: the secret to becoming great is to do a great amount of work

Err no. Gladwell says that to be great (A), you must have done 10,000 hours (B), i.e. A implies B.

The author then restates this as if you've done a great amount of work, you'll become great, i.e. B implies A. This is not a valid deduction!

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