What's the most important thing you've learned in the past year?
“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will learn what causes your pain and what you can do about it, and it will have an enormous impact on your effectiveness.” ― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work
Reading Dalio compounded my habit of self-reflection and learning. If you look back a year and can't think of one thing that you've fundamentally changed or learned... then you're probably moving backwards.
What is the most important thing you have learned or changed in the past year? This can be in any aspect of life: relationships, career, human nature, etc.
Taking care of mental health. Talking to therapists, talking to significant others and slowly breaking down the stereotypes of mental health.
Being realistic and self aware.
I think learning to track "my did list" rather than my "to do list". It really helps to be accountable for my time and progress as a person. I let a lot of time slip in the day. Commute, reading news, staring at the phone, etc... Recognizing we all have 16-18 hrs. of awake time, we really should be able to make a list at the end of the day of quality thing we accomplished.
If I had to pick one line: Everything is much more complex than you realize
Luck plays a significant role in where you end up in life.
Conveying a meaningful narrative is often more important than delivering the highest quality work. It's best to do both, but I've found that even at a junior level, effective communication is a rare skill and financial models are more a commodity.
Wait until after sunset to spray the wasp nest on the porch.
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I didn’t wait until after sunset to spray the wasp nest on the porch.
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