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.
@Ghukasyan21@FutbolJan10 Xavi didn't have that team, but Flick did, and he's been executing the style much better. And I think there's an interview where Jordi Cruyff admitted that they agreed with Xavi that they were gonna play conservative football, coz there was no "player quality"... nonsense
@Ghukasyan21@FutbolJan10 I'm tired of noobs tryna teach me about football manπ
Go watch Espanyol vs BarΓ§a late 2010, see how vertical Pep was when facing a high pressing team. Now compare that to Xavi vs Girona for ex.
Don't get me wrong, I was a big supporter of Xavi, but cmon, it was haramball...
@Ghukasyan21@FutbolJan10 Haramball, imo, doesn't only apply to parking the bus. It also applies to Xavi's Barcelona, Luis de la Fuente in most of the wc, etc. Conservative, boring sideways football drains me man
@FutbolJan10 Angry short hair raphinha stuck to the right wing with nonchalant Joao Felix as a "false left winger" and cancelo as our only serious threat on the left playing at the height of de Jong π₯ππ
@Daniel91673752@MkndFCB As a coach yeah. Ofc Valverde did a better job at BarΓ§a bcoz he gave in to what the club de amigos wanted. No high pressing, no intensity in games, and ofc then Roma Liverpool jumped us. And Bayern is Also the fault of this lazy system. U can't judge Setien on 6 months.