Build a habit of reading 100 pages in one sitting.
This one skill can help you become a top 0.1% in your domain. Be it learning or working, getting into the top tier requires you to study tough topics that demand undivided attention and to do deep work to drive the most impact in an optimal time.
Being able to consistently read 100 pages without getting distracted will help you build the ability to understand, comprehend, and maintain large, complex contexts over a longer duration. This improves focus, which is essential during studying tough concepts and during your regular SWE work.
Today, when most people have the attention span of a goldfish, you can easily ace your career if you can just put your head down and work without getting distracted.
Give your all into understanding how systems work, how they’re designed, and how each part connects. With coding tasks handled by AI, this systems-level thinking is one of the most valuable skills you can have.
@ChaoticDeeds What's your take on this?
That it is pretty saturated and have high competition for any opportunity, job posting ya freelancing.
Instead we can learn any other skill like app, backend, game development etc
my learning philosophy:
1. you can learn anything
2. you can do it way faster than you think
3. so choose an insanely aggressive goal
4. shorten your timeline by 10-100x what you expect
5. pre-requisites are a myth. try to do the thing first, figure out what you don't know yet, and go learn that stuff. don't think you need to learn a bunch of stuff before you can do stuff. learn backwards not forwards
6. be highly selective with your learning resources, most resources are garbage
7. it only takes 1 really high quality resource on a topic to learn it well
8. building & talking to people are where you learn almost everything
9. anything else should just be to accomplish these 2 things. you learn more so you can build stuff, or so you can have a productive conversation with someone experienced
Don’t focus on making millions of dollars, focus on learning about how the world works, develop your individual talents, enjoy the whole process, and place your bets accordingly. You will get the money you deserve, and earn your most valuable asset: a clear, confident mind.
you can literally be in the top 0.1% of the world in any field you want pretty easily. have you ever met obsessed people ? do you see how fast they're making progress when they think about their passion all day long? even during sleep ?
i will fucking make it like i always do when i really want something deep down. some people call it manifestation or whatsoever, i call it just going after it and doing it wether i'm happy or sad or anxious or stressed or lost or winning.
i dont know but I want my family to be proud of me and i am also addicted to winning in every aspect of life. thats just how i am
Strong people simply enjoy tough trainings.
Smart people simply enjoy tough problems.
Wealthy people simply enjoy risky forecasts.
Loved people simply enjoy being themselves.
Wise people simply enjoy deep self-reflection.
You don’t need talent, you need to love the process.
Intellectual Endeavours:
Stay Curious
Observe closely
test your curiosities
Seek feedback & reinforce learnings
embrace uncertainty
apply both deductive logic & inductive creativity
Connect the dots, establish patterns, reinforce them, break them
Anxiety is the awareness that you don't have the skills necessary to get to the life you want, but you somehow also neither have the courage nor the willingness to make the efforts to acquire those skills either, and you conveniently always have a good excuse to do nothing.
Study the timeless skills:
- Persuasion
- Human nature
- Critical thinking
Master the new digital skills:
- Content
- Social media
- Digital marketing
Combine the old with the new, and you’ll never go broke again.
Self-confidence is simple, every day you wake up, and you challenge yourself with at least one thing you are scared of: a risky trade, a difficult workout, a challenging book, practicing another language, a complicated problem, an uncomfortable conversation you were avoiding.