I
bought the book because I needed something not as “heavy” to read. This was around 150 pages of content, so I thought
it would be a good quick break for me.
Instead
of cramming more hours into a day and trying to optimize the efficiency of
everything you do, the author suggest focusing on the broader/macro picture and
making 2 hours really effective. The
five main strategies are:
1. Consciously
recognizing your decision points
2. Manage
mental energy (emotions)
3. Stop
fighting distractions
4. Leverage
mind-body connection
5. Make
your workspace work for you.
Strategy
2 was fascinating to me in particular. The
book goes into how certain emotions are a lot more useful in specific
situations. And if we channel the right
emotions to the right situation. Looking
at recent events of my own life, lots seem apply.
Anxiety and readiness are
physiologically the same. Next time when you are performing or public
speaking, if you feel nervous, change that mindset to “I’m ready.” Beyonce says she’s always nervous before a
great performance. I was nervous in my
recent Karate belt test. Apparently I
messed up a karate-form and didn’t even realize. If I primed myself to think “I’m ready”
instead of “I’m nervous,” maybe the outcome could have been different.
Sadness makes us less
trusthworthy. If you’re buying a house or a car and the
sales person is painting a fancy picture of you owning all this awesomeness… Think of your dead childhood dog that got ran
over by a car or something. When
someone’s pumping me up, I just think of all the people that fucked me over –
e.g. laid me off, cheated on me, stole credit…etc. All of a sudden I’m not so trusting. Someone else submitted an offer? Yeah bullshit. My offer is off the table if any of the other
sales rep calls me back and gives me what I asked for. Whoever calls first gets it.
Anger is helpful when we need
a push on taking a risk. For example if you want to risk current sales
by increasing price, or go sky diving with your buddies… The emotion helps in situations that are not
pleasant to begin with. Recently I’m
planning to make huge binary bets in the options market. If I am wrong (or if I am right, but it
doesn’t work out), I would lose A LOT of money.
The same token, if it does work out…
Then I’m a huge step closer to financial freedom. I am so excited thinking about it. I want to do it. But as the time comes closer… I’m having doubts. I’m kind of scared. I don’t know if I can actually stomach the
loss…
Then,
these days I have meetings with a manager that belittles everybody and talks
down to everybody… Shows up late to
meetings, high-jacks the meeting, makes me feel stupid and useless, barks out
orders, and leaves. I felt physically
sick being in the same room as this manager.
I wanted to quit my job (and I don’t even report to this person). That’s how bad it was. I was so hungry. FUCK THIS.
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? It was YOUR
fault on the first place for sitting on this damn thing for four fucking
months. Took 0 action even with my
weekly reminders. Then someone CCs your
boss (not me) and you get all upset because you didn’t do your job. Fuck you and your bullshit! I can’t stand any of this shit. If my options bet work out, then I won’t have
to. Fucker.
So
yeah… Anger helps push to certain risk
taking behavior… We’ll see how that
turns out soon enough.
You
can help me by buying a lot of airline stocks and pushing them up. Thanks!
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