Semejanzas

"one single, elegant equation to explain everything"...

BV=100%*(Lo*Le*Leg)

while there is life, there is hope, no matter how many obstacles you face (or how difficult they are)...the ONLY IMPORTANT THING is to give 100% in LoLeLeg...just keep going...

or in other words...

BV = 100% * Lo * Le * Leg

BV = 100% * Lo * (5Cs) * Leg 
BV = 100% * Lo * (5Cs) * Leg 
BV = 100% * Lo * (5Cs) * Leg 

BV = + (G.S.B) - (su.ad.av)

......100% GSB

...AND SHE MADE A DIFFERENCE!!

She made it. History. Helping the planet. 

For the first time, her school participated in the 60+ global campaign. She got permission to place posters throughout the school. She engaged with students from different levels in the Student Council. She formed her team to support the job. She designed the posters. They put the posters.

They announced the first non-11th/12th grade color day (and the first for-free ever too...) throughout all classrooms, from elementary to Senior High. And the school hold the first Acto de Bandera honoring the 60+ campaign.

As a corollary: on the D-hour, she got into the first family picture with the Presidency Minister while he hosted the Press just before turning off the lights of the Presidential Palace. History in the making. Excellent first project on leadership skills...Well done, PA!!

Suicide...

Couple of videos helped me to realize why my wedding's page-boy and Robin Williams committed suicide.

Hint: it is the same reason...

did you guessed the reason already? 

here you go: the final hint...

How cool Daddy codes!! (yes, the owl is eating a clown fish : - (

Spin-off of "Project: Wild Animal"

Made using: Khan Academy Computer Science.

Could I...?

talking about extra-curricular activities...

and talking about success...

Dear Mr de Botton,

I kindly disagree with you. In the podcast released this last Friday by TED Radio ("Success"), you mention that "by definition, not everybody can win the race", and then you go on on critizicing the winner-loser mentality in the US. You propose as a solution to be more self-compassionate when the results are not good. That would be nice, I agree, but it does not address the fundamental issue: the nature of the game in which we are winners or losers. I think that the “winners-losers” worldview is an evolutionary victory over the "fortunate-unfortunate" worldview, but we as a society still need to evolve to better define the game in which we win or lose.

The key from my point of view is to "win" everyday in doing our best, in giving our 100%, which is a "process" metric.  That is the victory that can get us both closer to mastery* and excellence and away from socially-imposed "results" as metrics of success.

There are two benefits of going after winning in the process (i.e., in the "I-give-my-100% game") and not in the results:

1/ We would be aligned with neuroscience (as reflected by another guest to your same podcast: Angela Duckworth and the scientific basis for the "growth mindset"), and

2/ We would have fewer people anxious (especially on Sunday evenings...), and more people would try to win. It is less threatening to "give your 100%" (a relative measurement for each of us) than in "achieving socially outstanding results" (which is an absolute yardstick). You effectively conveyed that threat in your video about Procrastination on The Philosophers' Mail.

Kind regards,

Armando

*:  there are some interesting thoughts on the difference between success (as a result metric) and mastery in the TED Talk from art historian Sarah Lewis: “[mastery is] not the same as success, which I see as an event, a moment in time, and a label that the world confers upon you. Mastery is not a commitment to a goal but to a constant pursuit.” 

Think GOOD, SKILLFUL, BIG

Two key -and related- podcasts. In one of my 10 favorite weekly podcasts, an interview with Seth Godin, Number 1 marketer blogger, and in Ferriss' podcast, an interview with Peter Diamandis, one of Fortune´s "The World´s 50 Greatest Leaders".

Some takeaways from the podcasts:

Seth: think GOOD, SKILFULL

- In the industrial age, we had to be cogs. In our post-industrial age, we should be artists (i.e., redefiners of ways to achieve value, not following maps but compass).

- Now you get the microphone and the internet and have to show what you can do.

- Whether you like it or not -or you realize it or not- we are all marketers now.

- The effective marketer paradigm: personified by the NYC homeless of the quarter.

- In the industrial age, scarcity was about material things. Now what is scarce are immaterial things: connection, meaning, time. Successful marketers will be the ones that help people to become their best selves in those areas. 

Peter: think BIG

- To become a billionaire, help a billion people! 

- 3 to 5 billion new consumers are coming on line in the next 6 years: what are you doing about it?
- the world's biggest problems are the biggest business opportunities
- are you working on something that will change the world?
- what can you do to be remembered in 200-300 years?