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.
@ByStephenM@poundingtherock Young team making young mistakes. Failure is a big master. Maybe we will remind this in the future when they were champions. #GoSpursGo
Nobody talks about the lonely part.
“People always talk about talent, but what they don’t wanna talk about is loneliness. The empty gym…”
- Larry Bird
Confidence.
Nobody gives it to you.
You build it rep by rep.
In the gym when no one’s watching. https://t.co/4zIilqfX40
A ver cómo explicamos en unos años que en un equipo donde estaban Vinicius, Mbappé, Bellingham o Federico Valverde, la esperanza para remontar estaba en Ferland Mendy.
@marcvidal Muchas ganas de ver como una súper inteligencia pelea contra otra súper inteligencia por ver quien de las 2 es mejor CEO.
Todos están creando su “bomba atómica”, pero cuando todo se iguale tecnológicamente, será el humano el que marque la diferencia.
#VIRAL Ilia Malinin, joven patinador de 21 años, hizo lo que estaba prohibido por 50 años: un backflip hacia atrás, aterrizando en un solo patín. De no mames la perfección con lo que lo hace!!
#JLMNoticias#JoséLuisMorales#Aguascalientes#Ags