Quotations 2020-Jan-08

# SMART Goals: Specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic, time-bound

# Four dimensions of goal-setting: Personal, professional, family, community

# Nothing makes your car old except the neighbor's new one.

# Knowledge comes only to those who seek it.

# No man is bigger than the work itself. Not even the CEO. -- Paromita Barman

# Politics begins when three or more people get together and then it is defined as "the art or science of influencing two or more people".

# The stark differences between Facebook, Google, and Apple’s cultures allow different kinds of products to be built, startups (like Snap) are vehicles for new cultural norms to flourish. 

At Google, those who ship things that scale are revered. 
At Facebook, shipping quickly is critical. 
At Apple, it’s important to take the time to ship the right thing.

Do any of these at another too much and you’ll get fired.

# INTJ (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging) is one of the 16 personality types identified by a personality assessment called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Sometimes referred to as the "Architect," or the "Strategist," people with INTJ personalities are highly analytical, creative and logical.

Ref: INTJ Personality: Characteristics, Myths & Cognitive Functions (https://www.verywellmind.com/intj-introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging-2795988)

# “Clean bathroom phenomenon” — no one will notice if you keep your bathroom clean, but everyone will notice if it’s dirty.

# CLIFE:
C - Customer Delight
L - Leadership by example
I - Integrity and Transparency
F - Fairness
E - Pursuit of Excellence

# 5 Dimensions of emotional intelligence: Self-awareness and Control, Empathy, Social Expertness, Personal Influence, Mastery of Vision. (50 Activities for Developing Emotional Intelligence: Adele B. Lynn, Eileen Klockars)

# You've got to start with the customer experience and work back towards the technology, not the other way around. - Steve Jobs

# By having fewer things to distract or trigger you, your mental health will be positively impacted. Minimalism gives you the chance to tune out all the noise in your life, and change for the better. Here are five ways in which minimalism is good for your mental health.

1. Peace And Clarity
2. A Step Toward Self-Discovery
3. Focus On What Is Important
4. More Space To Unwind
5. An Exercise In Self-Control

Ref: https://www.aconsciousrethink.com/6881/minimalism-mental-health/

# Through meditation we seek: love, peace, prosperity, good health, and loving and caring family. - Dr Priti Puri

# When you put in a robot to improve the efficiency of one part of a process, then you also need to scale up the efficiency of other parts of the process as well that are consuming the output from the part with robots employed in it. - Daniel Fitzgerald (http://tangible.media.mit.edu/person/daniel-fitzgerald/)

# Who are you? The Jackal or The Giraffe (Lesson in communication)

Note: 'NVC' stands for Non-violent communication

THE JACKAL:
In NVC we use the Jackal to symbolize the life alienating, domination language most of us were raised with. The jackal, as an animal, is low to the ground, a scavenger, competitive and vicious. A jackal as a person is one who approaches people (including themselves), places and things through the lens of a Right/Wrong, Good/Bad judgments. They speak a language that instills fear, anger, guilt and shame. It often inspires painful obsessions and behaviors.  The jackal sees everything as deserving either reward or punishment for themselves or others. Their language is demanding; “Do this.” “Don’t do that.” The jackal lives in their head judging, analyzing and blaming themselves and others. 

THE GIRAFFE:
In NVC we use the Giraffe to symbolize the life serving, partnership language that inspires connection and community. The giraffe is a very powerful yet peaceful, gentle animal. It has the largest heart of any land animal on earth and the longest neck which allows for a far, overall view of the world around it. To speak ‘giraffe’ is to speak from the heart. A giraffe person is non-judgmental, non-blaming, non-demanding and non-threatening. A giraffe is objective in their view and understanding of their feelings and needs as well as the feelings and needs of others. They practice empathy and desire to make life more wonderful for themselves and those around them.

# Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. Book: Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

# Programming with cards," one computer scientist from that era remembers," did not teach you programming. It taught you patience and proofreading." Book: Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

# To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect." Book: Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

# No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. Book: Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

# A life lesson: Sorting entangled wire mesh by focusing only on one end

If you are ever confused about what is happening in your life and things are not making much sense to you, then take yourself back to the days when you were akid who loved to fly kites. How often you would have to draw kite down from the sky and next when you would look down, there would be thread covering the entire ground! What do you do now? Of course, you are a kid and you are not going to leave the source of entire summer's joy there. So you start disentangling it by finding one of the two ends. Taking it out from loop after loop, resolving knot after knot. And by the time last ray of sun hit you, you had entire thread back on the roll. That's also how life is supposed to be lived – one thing at a time, knot by knot, loop by loop. -- Pradeep Khanna

# Book: David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell) 
1. Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. - Proverbs 13:7

2. We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren’t and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser.

3. This is called the “principle of legitimacy,” and legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice—that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can’t treat one group differently from another.

4. “You may fight with your wife,” he went on, his voice filled with the emotion of the memory. “But your daughter is kind of like the princess—she can do no wrong. And for that matter, her dad is the guy who can fix anything, from a broken tricycle to a broken heart. Daddy can fix everything, and when this happened to our daughter, it was something I couldn’t fix. I literally held her hand while she was dying. It’s a very helpless feeling.” At that moment, he made a vow. “Everything I’ve done ever since is about a promise I made to Kimber on her deathbed,” Reynolds said. “I can’t save your life. But I’m going to do everything in my power to try and prevent this from happening to anybody else.”

# What the dog saw (Malcolm Gladwell) 

1. “To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."

2. They lay awake at night thinking of a way to chop an onion so that the only tears you shed were tears of joy.

3. Sins and symptoms - crimes of evil and crimes of illness.

4. The A’s must be challenged and disproportionately rewarded. The B’s need to be encouraged and affirmed. The C’s need to shape up or be shipped out.