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Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Not-urgent but important tasks

    When we have an urgent, important task that requires our focus and time to get it done, we want to shortcut the reward system in our brain so that we work on not-urgent but important (often requires less focus and time) tasks instead. Finishing them feels rewarding, but we never made any progress on what Read more

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  • Theory can only take you so far

    A theory provides a starting point, but understanding it alone shouldn’t be the goal. Instead, we have to move beyond the theory and use what we learned to understand and apply them to the real world, addressing real problems. As we begin to explore its applications, we’ll soon get confronted with how theories are often Read more

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  • Too sheltered

    The thing about growing up poor or lacking opportunities and choices is that a person could become resourceful to get out of it and rise from poverty or be consumed by it and surrender to poverty. Some who grew up having things easily and being too sheltered from difficult situations and harsh realities in life Read more

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  • The interplay of hard work and timing

    There was a woman who grew up in the working class. They didn’t have much back then, but she learned at an early age the value of saving when her neighbor encouraged her to open a bank account while she was still in grade school. Even with the little she has, she developed the habit Read more

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  • Ambition and self-worth

    It’s nice to have ambition because, like fuel, it drives us to pursue whatever we want to achieve in life. But ambition requires us to actively work for those goals, which means that as we make our way towards meeting our ambitions, our self-worth should match that goal. So what comes next after having an Read more

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  • Breaking free from a lazy day

    If you keep doing nothing but lounge and scroll throughout the day, don’t be surprised to find yourself doing the same thing until evening. Unless you want to break the cycle and do something that really matters, say, read a book that could help you gain more information for work and self-improvement, it would be Read more

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  • Delegation requires trust

    If you are working on a schedule, you want to ensure that the people you delegate the tasks to can get the job done right and on time. So you delegate them to people you trust. Without trust, delegation becomes a source of frustration and disappointment. You may even end up micromanaging the delegated task Read more

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