Forward Focus

What it says? It says passion, and thinking, focusing constantly on what you love to do, in your job can make you confused, unhappy and compel you to quit and hop from job to job. But if you instead give some time to your work. Acquire rare, valuable skills, career capital and use that, leverage that to get to better place. Then you will end up loving what you do. Passion mindset is dangerous.  Instead craftsman mindset focusing and thinking in a way like what value they and their work is creating and providing. This mindset is on acquiring career capital aka skills valuable and rare in the market.  This skills can differ from domain to domain. But mostly you need to identify market types out of two types.  1 Winner take all market 2 Auction market • Winner take all market - it is the market where only one main skill is valuable. For example, script writing for tv shows, movies and so on. Only skill, only capital that matter there is your ability to write better scripts....

"Life is truly better when you have better thoughts" But isn't it that better thoughts actually make life better.  Think about this, all the achievements, material things, people or anything else, all those things are better for you when you have better thoughts.  You can have the best mobile phone and be miserable or not miserable but how long is that phone going to make you happy or feel better?  Think about it. Things which you consider better and the ones you don't. It is mainly (if not only) because your thoughts are better about that.  Everything is hated or disliked by a lot of people. That doesn't make those people bad people. Also there is a difference between hating and disliking.  Disliking is normal. We all dislike tons of things (we don't even realize or remember those). Hating on the other hand is more of a choice.  You can dislike something. But now you shit on that thing and spread negativity about that, well that is hater's behavior. So po...

A lot of time people around you judge you when you do something that's not familiar to them. Sometimes what you do doesn't make any sense to them. They might call you names, consider you crazy or 'weird'.  I thought about this thing for a while. Also when you're a misfit, this is something you hear a lot. But even when you're not a misfit you hear this at one time or not.  So what I thought about this is one thing isn't clear amongst a lot of people. The thing is, just because something is rare, it doesn't mean it is necessarily weird. 

If you don't stop, big things are waiting. This advice initially I got from the book "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight. Phil Knight is the co-founder of one of the biggest brand in the world, "Nike". (When he started it's name was "Blue Ribbon Sports".

I recently started a format '1-1-1' on Twitter. 1 Tweet, 1 Learning and 1 Bonus.  You can find it here as well and I am also going to send in my emails. That will save you some time and if you want to read more you can always dive into it here. Enjoy.

Shark Tank is an American business reality television series that gives any entrepreneur a chance to pitch their business (not just idea) and ask for money in return for fair percentage of equity in their business. A lot of entrepreneurs get a deal out of tank,  a lot of them don't. Some entrepreneurs get exactly what they were asking for and few gets more money with more valuation and more sharks in the deal. But a lot of entrepreneurs don't get the deal or they lose some of the sharks because of one of these mistakes.  I haven't watched all of the Shark Tank episodes but from the episodes I have watched, these were the mistakes I found that were mostly deal breakers and could have been avoided most certainly. 1. Valuing their company extremely higher than they can prove it This is, I would say, the number one point most sharks struggle to deal with: Entrepreneurs have valued their company way higher than they can prove. Because of absurdly high valuation that sharks can...