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Lessons
Some Alpha Common Sense
- Accept what has happened and figure it out.
- Solutions solve problems. Solutions require thinking.
- Action is more important than wondering.
- Results provide feedback.
- If the idea of failure prevents you from taking action, figure out how to overcome this.
- The best path is not the easiest path.
- Sustained outcome is the reward for the process.
- The more you do something, the more proficient you will become. This goes for right and wrong.
- Understand what your limits are. Growth usually requires breaking through them and resisting the temptation to peak at your current limits.
- The fundamentals and a strong foundation are essential.
- Any objection or criticism is not actually negative but one’s own beliefs and views. Don’t take it personal, but also do not ignore it.
- Hard work and smart work, are not the same.
- Hours doing does not mean hours improving.
- Be mindful of what you are doing.
- Be reflective.
- Opportunity’s will present themselves, every day. It is your choice to pursue them or to let them pass you by.
- Seek out what you desire. Do not wait for it to appear.
- Place yourself in situations that are beneficial to you. Remove yourself from one’s that are not.
- Learn to become comfortable in discomfort.
- The mind connects the body.
- What you feed yourself, affects what you are. Understand this in great detail.
- Learn to be less reactive and more curious.
- Listening is more important than talking.
- Redirect, reframe, and detach.
- Knowledge and does not take years to acquire. And those that started earlier than you, do not always have more than you.
- Short cuts are only worth having if they are also smart cuts.
- Do not cheat yourself out of understanding or you may not fully understand.
- There’s always tomorrow, until there isn’t. The same for the next. Don’t get caught up on one if there is the two.
- You get to choose how your life plays out.
