Take Jeff Bezos's Advice for Success

Full article here. Sounds so easy!

Food for thought for the Weekend (11-Nov-17)

Food for thought for the Weekend: My series where I present assorted collection of interesting blog posts, TED talks, podcast and articles I read/listened this week, some quotes that resonated with me, excerpts from my own reading.

What Steve Jobs taught Guy Kawasaki About Intelligence: Many times we feel changing the decisions we made might make us look foolish and tend to perpetuate the mistake. Guy Kawasaki (Apple Evangelist, and now a VC), shares that he learnt from Jobs that it actually is a sign of intelligence. Guy also argues that though it was very tough working with Jobs, it eventually made you better.

2. The Little Black Book of Stunning Success: Robinsharma, the author of the "Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" is giving away this gem of a book free. Grab it. (Registration is needed. Scroll the page one screen and you'd see the registration page to your left).

3. Men, Want to Fight Sexism at Work? Read Sheryll Sandberg's blunt advice: Well-intentioned men are often eager to know how they can be better allies. Sheryl has some advice. 

4. Masters of Scale: In this series of podcasts, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) interviews industry giants specifically on how companies grow. Great resource if you want to hear directly from the horse's mouth.

Have a great weekend!

I no longer have patience

Wow!!

Fighting Imposter syndrome

Impostor syndrome is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud". This psychological phenomenon, reflects a belief that you’re an inadequate and incompetent failure, despite evidence that indicates you’re skilled and quite successful.

I came to know only recently that there is a name to that and a lot of high achievers feel so. Deep down they feel like complete frauds and attribute their accomplishments as a result of serendipitous luck. Studies have shown that there is a high percentage of people who think so and most of us would have thought about it once in a while, if not all the time.

I ran into this TED talk playlist that has some very interesting talks on fighting it. Please pass this on to someone you know who might be low on confidence and fighting to over come the phenomenon. Even otherwise there are some good career tips.

Have a great week ahead.

Today

Is there anything worth starting TODAY?

Food for thought for the Weekend (4-Nov-17)

Food for thought for the Weekend: My series where I present assorted collection of interesting blog posts, TED talks, podcast and articles I read/listened this week, some quotes that resonated with me, excerpts from my own reading.

1. Jim Rohn: What basket ball can teach us about Responsibility: Jim Rohn, one of the leading productivity experts says "I’ve always felt that accepting responsibility is one of the highest forms of human maturity. A willingness to be accountable, to put yourself on the line, is really the defining characteristic of adulthood." 

2. Robin Sharma: Three Apps for World Builders (60 sec video series): Robin Sharma, author of The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari says "With better awareness you can own your craft. Use these 3 apps to amp up your game to world-class levels". 

3. Travis Bradberry: Nine types of people who never succeed at work: Check whether you have one or more of these behaviors.

4. Dr. Krumer: Women respond better than men to competitive pressure: analyzing more than 8,200 games from Grand Slam tennis matches, Alex Krumer of the University of St. Gallen and his colleagues conclude "Women respond better than men to competitive pressure"

What RamP's reading: Nov-17

Could not complete the books I had planned to read last month. Hence there are only two books. The first one, is about "how to study maths". I've started looking into concepts around AI/ML and it does involve brushing up some math fundamental that I'm out of touch with. This book is not a traditional maths book in that it teaches how to approach maths and not the theorems and concepts themselves (thanks to Prabhat, though he reco'd this book in a very different context). It might take more than few months to read this book. The other one by the legendary football coach of UCLA, John Wooden. Coach Wooden as he is popularly known, has written a lot of books on leadership, but in this particular book he talks about his mentors and his mentees. Hope to learn some tips on both being a good mentor and a mentee.