(토요모임) [12. May. 2018] Saturday meeting Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy ! 

It's me Scarlett !   

This week we have 3 categories of topics. Do not be obsessed with all the articles too much. Just pick some articles what you have interests and prepare your opinions related to those articles. :) Detailed lists are as follows.

◈ TED

---- Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss

◈ Technology

---- The world's first solar panel road has opened in France

---- These 11 questions will help you decide if blockchain is right for your business

◈ Education & Skills

---- Here's why your attitude is more important than your intelligence

---- 5 places you can educate yourself online for free

---- 12 ways to get smarter – in one chart

Hope you enjoy the topics.

With luv

Scarlett

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Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

Tim Ferriss

So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999. I was a senior in college, and it was right after a dance practice. I was really, really happy. And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later. I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lot, when I decided I was going to commit suicide. I went from deciding to full-blown planning very quickly. And I came this close to the edge of the precipice. It's the closest I've ever come. And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger was thanks to a few lucky coincidences. And after the fact, that's what scared me the most: the element of chance.

So I became very methodical about testing different ways that I could manage my ups and downs, which has proven to be a good investment. (Laughs) Many normal people might have, say, six to 10 major depressive episodes in their lives. I have bipolar depression. It runs in my family. I've had 50-plus at this point, and I've learned a lot. I've had a lot of at-bats, many rounds in the ring with darkness, taking good notes. So I thought rather than get up and give any type of recipe for success or highlight reel, I would share my recipe for avoiding self-destruction, and certainly self-paralysis.

And the tool I've found which has proven to be the most reliable safety net for emotional free fall is actually the same tool that has helped me to make my best business decisions. But that is secondary. And it is ... stoicism. That sounds boring.

(Laughter)

You might think of Spock, or it might conjure and image like this --

(Laughter)

a cow standing in the rain. It's not sad. It's not particularly happy. It's just an impassive creature taking whatever life sends its way.

You might not think of the ultimate competitor, say, Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, who has the all-time NFL record for Super Bowl titles. And stoicism has spread like wildfire in the top of the NFL ranks as a means of mental toughness training in the last few years. You might not think of the Founding Fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington to name but three students of stoicism. George Washington actually had a play about a Stoic -- this was "Cato, a Tragedy" -- performed for his troops at Valley Forge to keep them motivated.

So why would people of action focus so much on an ancient philosophy? This seems very academic. I would encourage you to think about stoicism a little bit differently, as an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments, for making better decisions. And it all started here, kind of, on a porch.

So around 300 BC in Athens, someone named Zeno of Citium taught many lectures walking around a painted porch, a "stoa." That later became "stoicism." And in the Greco-Roman world, people used stoicism as a comprehensive system for doing many, many things. But for our purposes, chief among them was training yourself to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former. This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower.

Conversely, let's say you're a quarterback. You miss a pass. You get furious with yourself. That could cost you a game. If you're a CEO, and you fly off the handle at a very valued employee because of a minor infraction, that could cost you the employee. If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life. So the stakes are very, very high.

And there are many tools in the toolkit to get you there. I'm going to focus on one that completely changed my life in 2004. It found me then because of two things: a very close friend, young guy, my age, died of pancreatic cancer unexpectedly, and then my girlfriend, who I thought I was going to marry, walked out. She'd had enough, and she didn't give me a Dear John letter, but she did give me this, a Dear John plaque.

(Laughter)

I'm not making this up. I've kept it. "Business hours are over at five o'clock." She gave this to me to put on my desk for personal health, because at the time, I was working on my first real business. I had no idea what I was doing. I was working 14-plus hour days, seven days a week. I was using stimulants to get going. I was using depressants to wind down and go to sleep. It was a disaster. I felt completely trapped. I bought a book on simplicity to try to find answers.

And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life, which was, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality," by Seneca the Younger, who was a famous Stoic writer. That took me to his letters, which took me to the exercise, "premeditatio malorum," which means the pre-meditation of evils. In simple terms, this is visualizing the worst-case scenarios, in detail, that you fear, preventing you from taking action, so that you can take action to overcome that paralysis. My problem was monkey mind -- super loud, very incessant. Just thinking my way through problems doesn't work. I needed to capture my thoughts on paper. So I created a written exercise that I called "fear-setting," like goal-setting, for myself. It consists of three pages. Super simple.

The first page is right here. "What if I ...?" This is whatever you fear, whatever is causing you anxiety, whatever you're putting off. It could be asking someone out, ending a relationship, asking for a promotion, quitting a job, starting a company. It could be anything. For me, it was taking my first vacation in four years and stepping away from my business for a month to go to London, where I could stay in a friend's room for free, to either remove myself as a bottleneck in the business or shut it down.

In the first column, "Define," you're writing down all of the worst things you can imagine happening if you take that step. You want 10 to 20. I won't go through all of them, but I'll give you two examples. One was, I'll go to London, it'll be rainy, I'll get depressed, the whole thing will be a huge waste of time. Number two, I'll miss a letter from the IRS, and I'll get audited or raided or shut down or some such.

And then you go to the "Prevent" column. In that column, you write down the answer to: What could I do to prevent each of these bullets from happening, or, at the very least, decrease the likelihood even a little bit? So for getting depressed in London, I could take a portable blue light with me and use it for 15 minutes in the morning. I knew that helped stave off depressive episodes. For the IRS bit, I could change the mailing address on file with the IRS so the paperwork would go to my accountant instead of to my UPS address. Easy-peasy.

Then we go to "Repair." So if the worst-case scenarios happen, what could you do to repair the damage even a little bit, or who could you ask for help? So in the first case, London, well, I could fork over some money, fly to Spain, get some sun -- undo the damage, if I got into a funk. In the case of missing a letter from the IRS, I could call a friend who is a lawyer or ask, say, a professor of law what they would recommend, who I should talk to, how had people handled this in the past. So one question to keep in mind as you're doing this first page is: Has anyone else in the history of time less intelligent or less driven figured this out? Chances are, the answer is "Yes."

(Laughter)

The second page is simple: What might be the benefits of an attempt or a partial success? You can see we're playing up the fears and really taking a conservative look at the upside. So if you attempted whatever you're considering, might you build confidence, develop skills, emotionally, financially, otherwise? What might be the benefits of, say, a base hit? Spend 10 to 15 minutes on this.

Page three. This might be the most important, so don't skip it: "The Cost of Inaction." Humans are very good at considering what might go wrong if we try something new, say, ask for a raise. What we don't often consider is the atrocious cost of the status quo -- not changing anything. So you should ask yourself, if I avoid this action or decision and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years? Any further out, it starts to seem intangible. And really get detailed -- again, emotionally, financially, physically, whatever.

And when I did this, it painted a terrifying picture. I was self-medicating, my business was going to implode at any moment at all times, if I didn't step away. My relationships were fraying or failing. And I realized that inaction was no longer an option for me.

Those are the three pages. That's it. That's fear-setting. And after this, I realized that on a scale of one to 10, one being minimal impact, 10 being maximal impact, if I took the trip, I was risking a one to three of temporary and reversible pain for an eight to 10 of positive, life-changing impact that could be a semi-permanent. So I took the trip. None of the disasters came to pass. There were some hiccups, sure. I was able to extricate myself from the business. I ended up extending that trip for a year and a half around the world, and that became the basis for my first book, that leads me here today.

And I can trace all of my biggest wins and all of my biggest disasters averted back to doing fear-setting at least once a quarter. It's not a panacea. You'll find that some of your fears are very well-founded.

(Laughter)

But you shouldn't conclude that without first putting them under a microscope. And it doesn't make all the hard times, the hard choices, easy, but it can make a lot of them easier.

I'd like to close with a profile of one of my favorite modern-day Stoics. This is Jerzy Gregorek. He is a four-time world champion in Olympic weightlifting, political refugee, published poet, 62 years old. He can still kick my ass and probably most asses in this room. He's an impressive guy.

I spent a lot of time on his stoa, his porch, asking life and training advice. He was part of the Solidarity in Poland, which was a nonviolent movement for social change that was violently suppressed by the government. He lost his career as a firefighter. Then his mentor, a priest, was kidnapped, tortured, killed and thrown into a river. He was then threatened. He and his wife had to flee Poland, bounce from country to country until they landed in the US with next to nothing, sleeping on floors.

He now lives in Woodside, California, in a very nice place, and of the 10,000-plus people I've met in my life, I would put him in the top 10, in terms of success and happiness. And there's a punchline coming, so pay attention. I sent him a text a few weeks ago, asking him: Had he ever read any Stoic philosophy? And he replied with two pages of text. This is very unlike him. He is a terse dude.

(Laughter)

And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics, how he had used stoicism and something akin to fear-setting, which blew my mind.

And he closed with two things. Number one: he couldn't imagine any life more beautiful than that of a Stoic. And the last was his mantra, which he applies to everything, and you can apply to everything:

"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."

The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- these are very often exactly what we most need to do. And the biggest challenges and problems we face will never be solved with comfortable conversations, whether it's in your own head or with other people.

So I encourage you to ask yourselves: Where in your lives right now might defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? Keeping in mind all the while, the words of Seneca: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Source : https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals/transcript

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<Questions>

Q1.  What is the "premeditatio malorum" or 'Fear-setting'?
*** "premeditatio malorum"
this is visualizing the worst-case scenarios, in detail, that you fear, preventing you from taking action, so that you can take action to overcome that paralysis.

Q2. Have you ever faced paralysis due to your fear to do something new? How did you deal with it?

Q3. Instead of goal setting, we can prepare ourselves and prevent pralysis by fear-setting. What is the your biggest fear?

Q4. After you establish your fear-setting phase, you should go throug with 'Define step', 'Prevent step', and 'Repair step'. Have you ever tried those processes after you are facing any fear?

Q5. According to Seneca who was a famous Stoic writer, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality". Do you agree with this sentence?

Q6. According to speech, humans are very good at considering what might go wrong if we try something new, say, ask for a raise. What we don't often consider is the atrocious cost of the status quo -- not changing anything. So you should ask yourself, if I avoid this action or decision and actions and decisions like it. How about you? Have you ever thought about "The Cost of Inaction."?

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The world's first solar panel road has opened in France
Kim Willsher, The Guardian/ Dec. 22, 2016, 10:12 AM

France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road, in a Normandy village.

A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal.

It cost €5m (£4.2m) to construct and will be used by about 2,000 motorists a day during a two-year test period to establish if it can generate enough energy to power street lighting in the village of 3,400 residents.

In 2014, a solar-powered cycle path opened in Krommenie in the Netherlands and, despite teething problems, has generated 3,000kWh of energy - enough to power an average family home for a year. The cost of building the cycle path, however, could have paid for 520,000kWh.

Before the solar-powered road - called Wattway - was opened on the RD5 road, the panels were tested at four car parks across France. The constructor was Colas, part of giant telecoms group Bouygues, and financed by the state.

Normandy is not known for its surfeit of sunshine: Caen, the region's political capital, enjoys just 44 days of strong sunshine a year compared with 170 in Marseilles.

Royal has said she would like to see solar panels installed on one in every 1,000km of French highway - France has a total of 1m km of roads - but panels laid on flat surfaces have been found to be less efficient than those installed on sloping areas such as roofs.

Critics say it is not a cost-effective use of public money. Marc Jedliczka, vice-president of Network for Energetic Transition (CLER) told Le Monde: "It's without doubt a technical advance, but in order to develop renewables there are other priorities than a gadget of which we are more certain that it's very expensive than the fact it works."

Jean-Louis Bal, president of renewable energy union SER, said: "We have to look at the cost, the production [of electricity] and its lifespan. For now I don't have the answers."

Colas said the panels have been covered with a resin containing fine sheets of silicon, making them tough enough to withstand all traffic, including HGVs. The company says it hopes to reduce the costs of producing the solar panels and has about 100 other projects for solar-panelled roads - half in France and half abroad.

Article source : http://www.businessinsider.com/5-places-you-can-educate-yourself-online-for-free-2017-2?utm_content=buffer2cdaf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti

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These 11 questions will help you decide if blockchain is right for your business

23 Apr 2018/ Cathy Mulligan/ JP Rangaswami/ Sheila Warren/ Jennifer Zhu Scott

One of the most unique aspects of blockchain is its high number of evangelists – people who believe blockchain can solve everything from global financial inequality, to the provision of ID for refugees, to enabling people to sell their houses without an estate agent. The enthusiasm to (over) promote the technology is also damaging its long-term prospects.

This level of evangelism is both unwarranted and damaging to the overall development work required to reap the benefits of distributed ledger technologies (DLT), of which blockchain is the best-known example. Truly innovative deployments of blockchain require a match between blockchain’s specific benefits and use cases that enable realization of these benefits, followed by dedicated hard work to get it right and embed in organizations and industries. It is not meant to be a workaround.

Based on our analysis of how blockchain is used in a variety of projects around the world and following interviews with selected chief executive officers, we found there are 11 questions, at most, that businesses need to answer to see if blockchain is a solution to some of their problems.

Example 1: Special effects companies - big files, bigger costs

Let’s look at the example of a special effects company and their software that is used by millions of game developers and industrial designers.

One of the main challenges these kinds of companies face is providing large-scale graphics processing units to render customer projects – these games require a lot of processing capacity and this can be an expensive process.

Blockchain technology could enable this company to tap into undiscovered possibilities to solve its business problem: completing more projects for less money.

The special effects company needs to access as much processing power as possible from a variety of processing units for the cheapest amount of money possible. Since most devices have consumer-grade processors already installed, everyone with a device could contribute their processing power for a fee. In short, when you don’t need the processing power, you can sell this down time to this special effects company that needs some extra processing power for their new game, and get paid for it (or receive a token on the blockchain).

The below flowchart has 11 questions that can help decide whether or not this special effects company needs to use blockchain:

Image: Creative Commons/World Economic Forum

Start with A - Are you trying to remove intermediaries or brokers?

The company doesn’t need a middle man to help them get this extra processing power (this is the move from A to B on the toolkit graph). Their assets are digital and there are no other companies managing the assets (move from B to C to D).

Since the transactions can take place overnight, they can move from D to E. Once a job is complete, the software company doesn’t have to store that data, so that gets them to F. Everyone can participate. Move from F to G.
 

The company has to prove that they paid you for this time, but they don’t have to know specifically who wrote the contract, so they can move from G to H to I. For the last steps, network needs to be able to control the functionality (for upgrades for example) and be public. This analysis shows that the application should select a public, permission-free ledger. This solution applies blockchain to allow distributed graphic processing units to be shared across the globe, reducing costs, and reducing waste from underutilized units.

Example 2: Preventing multiple medical insurance claims

If we take a different case study and examine the role blockchain plays within the medical insurance industry, we would see a different result. This industry wants to prevent multiple claims across different suppliers. They want to remove intermediaries that usually manage part of the relationship for insurers (move from A to B). The data is digital and the insurers want to have control over the patient data and store the transactions, not the private data within the claims (move straight from B to E). However, the solution encounters challenges when considered from the perspective of needing trusted sources and compliance. The medical industry is heavily regulated and requires insurance providers to provide detailed oversight of their activities, in particular with respect to the management of end-user data. The solution, therefore, fails at this point. DLT is not the best choice for the concept outlined.

This Q&A tool is intended to enable rapid initial analysis of whether blockchain is the right solution to a business problem. It is based on real-world experience of blockchain in a variety of projects across a variety of industries analysed by Imperial College London.

The framework has been reviewed and further developed by members of the 2017 World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Blockchain and has been trialled through a variety of means, including with global chief executive officers (CEOs) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 in Davos, Switzerland.

The hope is to bust the blockchain hype and encourage a practice approach by shifting focus to the business problem and away from a particular technological solution.

Our new report, Blockchain Beyond the Hype, is available here.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/questions-blockchain-toolkit-right-for-business

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Q1. The world's first solar panel road has opened in France. What do you think about this road? would you visit this place if you travel to france?

Q2. If you can save your money while using those self electricity generating infrasructures, would you use these roads?

Q3. Do you think what is the most urgent issue in our society? Can we solve those troubles with technology?

Q4. What would be the criticism on this policy?

Q5. Have you ever heard about the blockchain tech.? What is it?  
*** blockchain
A blockchain, originally block chain, is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography.   Each block typically contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp and transaction data

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Here's why your attitude is more important than

your intelligence

09 Aug 2017/ Dr Travis Bradberry/ Coauthor of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 2.0 & President at TalentSmart.

When it comes to success, it’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. But new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude).

Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study shows that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ.

Dweck found that people’s core attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.

Image: LinkedIn

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

According to Dweck, success in life is all about how you deal with failure. She describes the approach to failure of people with the growth mindset this way,

“Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, and I’m a problem solver, so I’ll try something else.’”

Regardless of which side of the chart you fall on, you can make changes and develop a growth mindset. What follows are some strategies that will fine-tune your mindset and help you make certain it’s as growth oriented as possible.

Don’t stay helpless. We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down. There are countless successful people who would have never made it if they had succumbed to feelings of helplessness: Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas,” Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job as a TV anchor in Baltimore for being “too emotionally invested in her stories,” Henry Ford had two failed car companies prior to succeeding with Ford, and Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s Cinematic Arts School multiple times. Imagine what would have happened if any of these people had a fixed mindset. They would have succumbed to the rejection and given up hope. People with a growth mindset don’t feel helpless because they know that in order to be successful, you need to be willing to fail hard and then bounce right back.

Be passionate. Empowered people pursue their passions relentlessly. There’s always going to be someone who’s more naturally talented than you are, but what you lack in talent, you can make up for in passion. Empowered people’s passion is what drives their unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Warren Buffet recommends finding your truest passions using, what he calls, the 5/25 technique: Write down the 25 things that you care about the most. Then, cross out the bottom 20. The remaining 5 are your true passions. Everything else is merely a distraction.

Take action. It’s not that people with a growth mindset are able to overcome their fears because they are braver than the rest of us; it’s just that they know fear and anxiety are paralyzing emotions and that the best way to overcome this paralysis is to take action. People with a growth mindset are empowered, and empowered people know that there’s no such thing as a truly perfect moment to move forward. So why wait for one? Taking action turns all your worry and concern about failure into positive, focused energy.

Then go the extra mile (or two). Empowered people give it their all, even on their worst days. They’re always pushing themselves to go the extra mile. One of Bruce Lee’s pupils ran three miles every day with him. One day, they were about to hit the three-mile mark when Bruce said, “Let’s do two more.” His pupil was tired and said, “I’ll die if I run two more.” Bruce’s response? “Then do it.” His pupil became so angry that he finished the full five miles. Exhausted and furious, he confronted Bruce about his comment, and Bruce explained it this way: “Quit and you might as well be dead. If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

If you aren’t getting a little bit better each day, then you’re most likely getting a little worse—and what kind of life is that?

Expect results. People with a growth mindset know that they’re going to fail from time to time, but they never let that keep them from expecting results. Expecting results keeps you motivated and feeds the cycle of empowerment. After all, if you don’t think you’re going to succeed, then why bother?

Be flexible. Everyone encounters unanticipated adversity. People with an empowered, growth-oriented mindset embrace adversity as a means for improvement, as opposed to something that holds them back. When an unexpected situation challenges an empowered person, they flex until they get results.

Don't complain when things don't go your way. Complaining is an obvious sign of a fixed mindset. A growth mindset looks for opportunity in everything, so there’s no room for complaints.

Bringing It All Together

By keeping track of how you respond to the little things, you can work every day to keep yourself on the right side of the chart above.

About The Author:

Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the #1 bestselling book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training, serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/heres-why-your-attitude-is-more-important-than-your-intelligence

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5 places you can educate yourself online for free
Melanie Curtin, Inc./ Feb. 9, 2017, 11:47 AM

What do you want to learn more about this year? Nanotechnology? Virtual reality? Bitcoin? How to protect democracy?

According to neuroscience professor Ken Kosik, adult education, or specifically engaging in challenging new learning experiences, encourages brain plasticity. And plasticity is associated with flexibility, innovation, and joy.

Equally as compelling, continued learning has been shown to protect your brain from developing diseases like Alzheimer's.

Finally, in today's charged political climate, it's worth noting that an educated populace has always been shown to withstand challenging times more effectively.

Here are a few ways to get educated this year, quickly and powerfully:

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1. Coursera

Take classes from universities like Stanford, Penn, Duke, or Yale without the $60,000-plus per year price tag. Coursera offers over 1,500 courses from over 145 university partners.

Courses usually include videos and coursework like online quizzes monitored by a professor. You can search by topic or university.

Sample classes:

- Psychology: This course looks at research findings in the field of positive psychology as well as practical applications that you can put to use immediately to help you live a "full and meaningful life."
- Become a More Effective Manager: Learn how effective managers assess performance and use coaching to create clear expectations and accountability, as well as how to have powerful conversations that get results.
- Securing Digital Democracy: Learn about the potential security risks of electronic and internet voting. This course covers the past, present, and future of election technologies.
- The Making of the U.S. President: A Short History in Five Elections: The course description says: "As Trump takes office as 45th president of the U.S., this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective.... It tells the story of key campaigns, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time — and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign."

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2. Alison

If you're an entrepreneur or a globally-minded businessperson, you'll love Alison, a U.K.-based learning hub. It's got classes in English, French, and German, with practical courses on everything from American copyright law to nonprofit fundraising. Sample courses:

- Creating Business Startups the Kawasaki Way (taught by Guy Kawasaki himself)
- How to Negotiate the Price When Buying a House
- Introduction to Venture Capital, Understanding Currency Exchange, and Understanding the American Financial Credit Crisis

Completion of a course grants you "certification," a British designation.

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3. Academic Earth

The advantage of Academic Earth is that it creates curated playlists, collecting relevant lectures from different courses around a specific topic. Sample playlists:

- Love Is in the Air: Perspectives on emotion, love, dating, marriage, and sex from psychology, English, and economics.
- Money Makes the World Go Round: How the world views money and its importance in business and society.

It also has interesting and occasionally entertaining video electives, such as:

- The Internet Knows Bitcoin
- The Psychology of the Internet Troll
- Practical Math: How to Take a Punch

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4. 99U

With the tagline "Empowering the Creative Community," 99U is kind of like TED for entrepreneurs only: Its focus is heavily on creativity, innovation, and business development. Sample lectures:

- Why Unrest Is Gold for Creatives: "In an era of upheaval and crisis, creative expression‎ takes on new urgency.... For those creatives feeling discontent in these fractious times, it's a reminder that the simmering feeling of anger can be best used to issue a call to action and serve as a tool for change."
- How to Beat the Imposter Syndrome Feeling: "Approximately 70 percent of us will experience a period of self-doubt at least once in our lives. Rebuild your confidence using these five strategies."
- Paola Antonelli: Rejection Is a Sign You're Onto Something New: "Your creative work can make the world a better place. But only if you allow yourself to shock, disgust, and — yes — even fail."

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5. Udacity

If you're serious about learning how to code this year or need to bone up on computer science or math skills, this clean site is ideal. It includes an icon next to videos to let you know just how advanced a course is, so you can start with an easier one if you're new to a subject. Sample courses:

- Android Basics Nanodegree by Google (beginner): "Get a solid grasp on the basics of foundational programming skills used in creating mobile apps."
- VR Developer Nanodegree (intermediate): "Virtual Reality is the future of creative content. Job opportunities are skyrocketing, making this the perfect time to launch your career. Built by Google VR, Vive, Upload Collective."
- Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree (advanced): "In this program, you'll learn the skills and techniques used by self-driving car teams at the most advanced technology companies in the world. Built by Mercedes, Nvidia, Otto, Didi, BMW, McLaren, NextEv."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." — Albert Einstein

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Q1. Do you think what the principal ingredients of success are?

Q2. What is the 'Growth mindset'? Do you think you have one? 

Q3. What is the 'Grit'? Do you have one? 

Q4. How do you maintain your passionate attitude on your life?

Q5. When you face the hardships in your life, how do you react to it? 

Q6. Please share your experiences when you face the hardships such as human relationships, economic situation or etc. in your life.

Q7. What is your life goal? Where are you heading? Do you have something that makes you advance forward like Will smith who was starring as Todd Black in the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. 

  *** 'The Pursuit of Happyness'.

The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film based on entrepreneur Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle being homeless. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, the film features Will Smith as Gardner, a homeless salesman. Smith's son Jaden Smith co-stars, making his film debut as Gardner's son, Christopher Jr.

The screenplay by Steven Conrad is based on the best-selling eponymous memoir written by Gardner with Quincy Troupe. The film was released on December 15, 2006, by Columbia Pictures. For his performance, Smith was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

The unusual spelling of the film's title comes from a mural that Gardner sees on the wall outside the daycare facility his son attends. He complains to the owner of the daycare that "happiness" is incorrectly spelled as "happyness" and needs to be changed.

Q8. Did you watch the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness'? How do you think of the main character Will Smith in this movie? 

Q9. What is the happiness for you? What makes you happy?

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12 ways to get smarter – in one chart

12 Feb 2018/ Jeff Desjardins/ Founder and editor of Visual Capitalist

The level of a person’s raw intelligence, as measured by aptitude tests such as IQ scores, is generally pretty stable for most people during adulthood. While it’s true that there are things you can do to fine tune your natural capabilities, such as doing brain exercises, puzzle solving, and getting optimal sleep – the amount of raw brainpower you have is difficult to increase in any meaningful or permanent way.

For those of you who strive to be high-performers, this may seem like bad news. If processing power can't be increased, then how can life’s increasingly complex problems be solved?

The key is mental models

The good news is that while raw cognitive abilities matter, it’s how you use and harness those abilities that really makes the difference. The world’s most successful people, from Ray Dalio to Warren Buffett, are not necessarily leagues above the rest of us in raw intelligence – they have simply developed and applied better mental models of how the world works, and they use these principles to filter their thoughts, decisions, strategies, and execution.

Today’s infographic comes from best-selling author and entrepreneur Michael Simmons, who has collected over 650 mental models through his work. The image, in a similar style to one we previously published on cognitive biases, synthesizes these models down to the most useful and universal mental models that people should learn to master first.

Concepts such as the 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle), compound interest, and network effects are summarized in the visualization, and their major components are broken down further within the circle.

Mental model example

In a recent Medium post by Simmons, he highlights a well-known mental model that is the perfect breadcrumb to start with. The 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle) is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who was likely the first person to note the 80/20 connection in an 1896 paper.

In short, it shows that 20% of inputs (work, time, effort) often leads to 80% of outputs (performance, sales, revenue, etc.), creating an extremely vivid mental framework for making prioritization decisions.

The 80/20 rule represents a power law distribution that has been empirically shown to exist throughout nature, and it also has huge implications on business.

If you focus your effort on these 20% of tasks first, and get the most out of them, you will be able to drive results much more efficiently than wasting time on the 80% “long tail” shown below.

This is just one example of how a powerful mental model can be effective in making you work more intelligently.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/how-to-be-smarter-infographic

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Q1. Do you carry out any treatment to tune your natural capabilities? For example, doing brain exercises, puzzle solving, and getting optimal sleep.

Q2. How can we be more productive with our performance with life’s increasingly complex problems?

Q3. This article suggested that we can improve our performance by using specific mental model which is applying concepts such as the 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle), compound interest, and network effects. For instance, If you focus your effort on these 20% of tasks first, and get the most out of them, you will be able to drive results much more efficiently than wasting time on the 80% “long tail” shown below.
Do you have any experience to improve your work efficiency by applying 80/20 rule?

Q4. Are you good at making high performance in a short time? Otherwise, do you need longer duration to make your best performance?