《PP》第13课摘抄
this increased likelihood of success when we pursue the things that we are passionate about defines the “no pain, no gain” maxim
we do do it better with pleasure if we pursue our passions.
too easy is not necessarliy good.
VIA value in action
if you found doing something and constantly engaged in learning new things, if it is my personal strength or expressing gratitude constantly, if that is my character strength. something that i’m inclined to do, i’ll be happier.
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after teaching this course twice, i started to feel a little bit enervated, a little bit tired. and then I went back to the VIA. and I said “well that made a lot of sense. because my second strength after prudence is love of learning. “ and then i said to me, ok, so i am going to engage in this exercise” I still put in an hour aside every day to learning something new, to reading something that I haven’t read before. and what that did for me immediately within two days, it brought back my energy.
exercise 1: so applying whatever it is, whatever your top strength are consciously until it becomes a habit. and then, this will also be part of your exercise: each night describe how you use your strength on that day and then commit to the next day: what are you going to do tomorrow? why? because that reinforce the neural pathways.
exercise 2: find a problem, and use your strength to solve the problem
how do you make your decisions
generally what Wrzesniewski and others found is that people’s perception of work can be classified into three categories. some people perceive their work as a job; others as a career; some people perceive it as a calling.
how do you interpret it?
what about all the pressure that I hear from my friends and colleagues who say “well you should do something else” more “noble” with your Harvard education. the most noble thing is to listen to that inner voice. because when we pursue our passions, when we pursue a self-concordant goal and a self-concordant journey, that’s when we come alive and that’s when we also make the world a better place. Remember Gandhi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
setting goals
write them down
set lifelines. it’s not "I will do the following soonish"; it’s “I will do the following by the list first of July, 2009.”(specific project)
have a long term goal and then break it down to short term or medium term goal. short term goal, and then make plans and then create rituals based on these plans. step by step. breaking down achievement.
stress