Israel A. Fehintola

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[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

@Joe_brendan_ Unfortunately, the political climate in recent years has produced abundance of youths with this mindset

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

@TomisinOyerinde Companies’ policies are more often than not people-championed, and once the champions leaves, the policies die natural death.
What outlives people is the culture

[Lima @limalemonnn]

a professor with a dozen tumors in his liver came to the university of virginia the day after chemotherapy and spent 75 minutes explaining how not to waste your own life.

randy pausch called it a lecture on time management. he had three to six months of good health left, and three months and twelve days of it were already gone.

students would ask whether the program was worth the money. pausch said the right question was a different one: is it worth two years of your life that you are never getting back?

a deadline has a date and a person who will notice you missed it. importance has neither a date nor that person.

so the urgent goes first in the queue, and then the next urgent thing goes first, even when it is worth nothing. pausch said to work on what is important while it still has no date.

that is how the years disappear. hundreds of sensible, well argued hours spent on whatever asked more loudly.

why am i doing this? what is my goal? what happens if i don't do it?

the best moment, he said, is when you cross something off and find that nobody has come to take you to jail. every unnecessary task you delete hands back a piece of your life.

five interruptions can destroy a whole hour.

he also kept a time journal and filled it in as the day went. like a financial budget, the journal showed where the time had actually gone.

the goal was never to become an uber-worker. it was to work efficiently enough to leave at five and go home to the people he loved.

he died eight months later, at 47.

he ended the lecture with one sentence: “time is all we have. and we may find one day you have less than you think.”

the lecture is free. all 75 minutes are in the video below.

what will you change in the next 30 days?

[Lima @limalemonnn]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

Most times, it takes a while to find that singular thing.
During your younger years, your only goal should be finding that one thing - then use the remaining years to build it

[Sharran Srivatsaa @sharran]

I’m 46. Trust me on this: To do great things, you must do fewer things. Mastery comes from singularity of focus.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Trust me on this: Possibility expands when you move. You meet someone because you went. Discover something because you tried. Find an opportunity because you asked. The world reveals doors to people in motion that remain completely invisible to people standing still.

[Giannis Antekonumpo ☁️ @shaqtetokounmpo]

@omgsidewalks "Visibility"

Grinds my gears. It's the leaders' responsibility to ensure that teams are working on impactful stuff. Not the team's responsibility to convince leaders that they're useful.

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

@BaaleOMOale @OneJoblessBoy 🤣🤣🤣
You need to call awon eleran orun too

[blue @bluewmist]

You're unhappy because you do nothing worth being proud of. You haven't done anything hard in months. You haven't made anything. Fought for anything. Dared anything. You coast, consume, complain, and repeat. Then you wonder why life feels empty. Fulfillment comes from building something that outlives your moods.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

This is rare skill, it needs to be emphasized 😅

[Leo @leo_osn5]

en mi CV voy a incluir que puedo trabajar con el corazón destrozado sin bajar mi productividad.

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

@Marvcmon1 @DifferentKaro 😆😆😆

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

The thing about throwing yourself in the deep end is that most times you win, sometimes you lose, and it will burn!!!!!

The trick is to celebrate HARD when you win and take it like a champ when you lose.

What you mustn't do, though, is not to throw yourself in.

[Israel A. Fehintola @FehinIsrael]

Failure is part of life

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[Rufybaba @Rufyb]

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[Muyiwa Awoniyi @IAmDonawon]

Until you learn how to serve without thinking about your gain, elevation will be far from you.

[Arinze Odira @CaptainArinze]

In anything you do in life, don't get used to crumbs. Make no mistake, they’ll times we may be forced to accept crumbs to move ahead, but make sure you are aware it is crumbs, and you deserve better. And if you accept crumbs for so long, you may start seeing it as normal.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

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