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" Not only do smart people ask questions when they don’t understand something, but they also ask questions when the world thinks it understands something. Smart people challenge the very limit of human understanding, and push the envelope of what’s possible farther than many people would argue it’s meant to be pushed. Smart people don’t take claims at face value, and smart people don’t rest until they find an explanation they’re comfortable accepting and understanding.

Smart people challenge everything."

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Some ideas so obviously entail alarming schleps that anyone can see them. How do you see ideas like that? The trick I recommend is to take yourself out of the picture."Instead of asking "what problem should I solve?" ask "WHAT PROBLEM DO I WISH SOMEONE ELSE WOULD SOLVE FOR ME?""

Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for, when you could fix one of the most important components of the world's infrastructure? because their unconscious mind shrank from the complications involved.Your unconscious won't even let you see ideas that involve painful schleps. That's schlep blindness.

A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake. And schleps should be dealt with the same way you'd deal with a cold swimming pool: just jump in. Which is not to say you should seek out unpleasant work per se, but that you should never shrink from it if it's on the path to something great.
the most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is probably ignorance. Most successful founders would probably say that if they'd known when they were starting their company about the obstacles they'd have to overcome, they might never have started it.

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in list: how to be an adult & be great at it too, BUILD SOCEITY: psychological law

CONVERSATIONAL RESOURCEFULNESS often means doing things you don't want to.With the good groups, you can tell that everything you say is being looked at with fresh eyes and even if it's dismissed, it's because of some logical reason e.g. "we already tried that" or "from speaking to our users that isn't what they'd like," etc. Those groups never have that glazed over look.

Chasing down all the implications of what's said to you can sometimes lead to uncomfortable conclusions. The best word to describe the failure to do so is probably "denial," Intellectually they were as capable as the successful founders of following all the implications of what one said to them. They just weren't eager to.As well as failing to chase down the implications of what was said to them, the unsuccessful founders would also fail to chase down funding, and users, and sources of new ideas. But the most immediate evidence I had that something was amiss was that I couldn't talk to them.they've already decided what they're going to do and everything I say is being put through an internal process in their heads, which either desperately tries to munge what I've said into something that conforms with their decision or just outright dismisses it and creates a rationalization for doing so.

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in list: how to be an adult & be great at it too, BUILD SOCEITY: psychological law

You don't need small classes to get students active and engaged.the key is to get them to do the assigned reading - what he calls the "information-gathering" part of education - before they come to class.
it's not good enough to have a source of information."guide on the side" - a kind of coach, working to help students understand all the knowledge and information that they have at their fingertips. this new role is imp one.
discussing a question. Three possible answers to the question are projected on a screen. Before the students start talking with one another, they vote for their answer. Only 29 percent got it right. After talking for a few minutes,tell them to answer the question again.This time, 62 percent of the students get the question right. Next,lead a discussion about the reasoning behind the answer. The process then begins again with a new question. This is a method Mazur calls "peer Instruction."

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"drill the most difficult parts"
'complicate' the difficult parts-problems with speed confound the rhythms, clarity problems alternate accent pattern
fix weakness
move towards a perfect mental image - don't reactively move away from mistakes

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it’s easy to be judgmental of inaction. Explain it away as simply being laziness or weakness. But the truth is probably more basic: self-motivation is really hard to do, especially for tasks you don’t enjoy
if you already had a good reason to exercise but you’re staying home again, what difference will having a slightly better reason make?
I feel a better strategy is instead of summoning up more willpower, trying to hack the activity in question so it becomes more enjoyable. Instead of driving the change with more force, you use a catalyst.
What if the goal of exercise was to find something physical you really liked, not to lose weight? The goal of socializing was to find activities you enjoyed, not to fit some mold people expect you to follow?
the first priority should be to enjoy an activity. This applies whenever you find yourself procrastinating constantly or finding that you’re putting off a goal for months. After you don’t have a problem showing up, every day, the goal should be efficiency, which reaps greater rewards.
Don’t worry about finesse or mastering the craft, just get out there and write what you’re passionate about. After a hundred or so articles, you might want to spend more time carefully examining how you can improve.
Listening to music while working tends to lower my efficiency, but increase my enjoyment. Going to the gym with friends can be a distraction if you’re on an intense schedule, but also more fun.
less-fun but high-results dieting approach is better than one which is easy, but may not give the tangible benefits that encourage you to continue.
What do you think? Should your initial action plans focus on what is going to be the most effective strategy, or the one you’ll enjoy most? If it depends, what causes you to make that distinction?

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tutorial level where the player is told how to play
If you are starting your own business, why not read a lot of material on starting a business? You could also interview other entrepreneurs and ask them about their experiences.
If you are having trouble getting in shape, why not join a fitness class or hire a personal trainer? If you are a bad cook, go to a cooking class. If you want to become more proficient at speaking why not join Toastmasters?
gradually increasing the difficulty so that initial levels are incredibly easy but soon become more difficult.
make your first step just to show up at the gym for a half hour every day.
You don’t have to be good at anything you start at. You are going to learn and improve not to stroke your ego.
The second invalid belief we can have is that something is impossible if we don’t “get it” at first.
Be patient and also realize that developing your skills in an area is just as important as solving your problem or becoming good. So if you start cooking a new exotic meal but it tastes horrible, that doesn’t mean that cooking is impossible or that you just wasted your time. You gained valuable experience that moves you further in your next attempt.
you actually can do some things you previously felt were impossible for you.
you need to separate your skill with the task and the task itself. If you are frustrated with how badly you are performing the skill then chances are it is simply the Frustration Barrier at work. However, it might be that you really dislike playing and you believe you would dislike playing even if you were excellent at it.

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largest when parents read a book with their child, when they talk about things they have done during the day, and when they tell stories to their children." The score point difference is smallest when parental involvement takes the form of simply playing with their children. parents involved with their children's learning at home is a more powerful driver of achievement than parents attending P.T.A. and school board meetings
Monitoring homework; making sure children get to school; rewarding their efforts and talking up the idea of going to college. These parent actions are linked to better attendance, grades, test scores, and preparation for college

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persistance = result conveys positive feedback about competence --> increases intrinsic motivation

learning something gives new knowledge --> propelling interest to more learning & knowledge

generate passion at work, not find your passion.
there are only new motivations

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assuring my years of dissatisfaction regarding how my undergrad med college functions, unlike my school days where there was daily homework, classes were engaging every moment of my conscious & subconscious hungry mind, teachers worked backwards by setting deadline to complete syllabus before time & reduce stress at the end by putting big stones first unlike my undergrad classes being conducted at the whims & fancies of the mass students by completing the bulk of syllabus right before the exams & wasting time frivolously in the year beginning & slow with lacunae of emptiness from taking attendance or jerks disturbing the class with jokes or doubts. when i was in school, jerks were never encouraged, there was never a day of laxedness, their ingrained discipline & righteousness was motivating me unconsciously, unlike the present undergrad classes were tutors laugh along with jerks & prof's attitude on shortcuts to knowledge, compromising for their fav students opinion, ego show over unfavored students, copying in exams is demotivating enough. parent-teacher's meeting at school was an implied reprimand for parents to protect the child's education which is lacking in university. Profs in my med school don't implement any activities evolved from a drive to constantly assess his classes' comprehension or excise any extraneous ones. my profs think students are hard & not that of explaining the info with clarity.

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those who have built up highly desirable skills rarely feel much nervousness about the prospect of switching jobs.

BUILD UP A VALUABLE SKILL UNTIL YOU'VE ELIMINATED THIS NERVOUSNESS.

once your stomach stops churning about your occupational day dreams, the time is right to make them a reality

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1. Setup a separate chat with your professor, your TA, and a student who took the same course in a previous semester.
2. In each chat session, ask the same question:

If you were to write an advice guide about doing incredibly well in this class, what would the chapters be?

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