six keys to achieving excellence we've found are most effective for our clients:

six keys to achieving excellence we've found are most effective for our clients:

Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we've found are most effective for our clients:

1. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
2. Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
5. Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
6. Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeisterhas found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/08/six_keys_to.html

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Milton Glaser

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”

Vegan Ideal

Philosophy

Branches of philosophy - the main areas of study:

Metaphysics is the study of the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and
ontology.

Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible.
Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between
truth, belief, and justification.

Ethics, or "moral philosophy", is concerned with questions of how persons ought to act or if such
questions are answerable. The main branches of ethics are meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied
ethics. Meta-ethics concerns the nature of ethical thought, comparison of various ethical systems,
whether there are absolute ethical truths, and how such truths could be known. Ethics is also associated
with the idea of morality. Plato's early dialogues include a search for definitions of virtue.
Political philosophy is the study of government and the relationship of individuals and communities to
the state. It includes questions about justice, the good, law, property, and the rights and obligations
of the citizen.

Aesthetics deals with beauty, art, enjoyment, sensory-emotional values, perception, and matters of taste
and sentiment.

Logic is the study of valid argument forms. Beginning in the late 19th century, mathematicians such as
Frege focused on a mathematical treatment of logic, and today the subject of logic has two broad
divisions: mathematical logic (formal symbolic logic) and what is now called philosophical logic.



Philosophy of mind deals with the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body, and is typified by disputes between dualism and materialism. In recent years there has been increasing similarity betweenthis branch of philosophy and cognitive science.


Philosophy of language is inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language.

Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy that asks questions about religion.

Most academic subjects have a philosophy, for example the philosophy of science, the philosophy of
mathematics, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of history. In addition,
a range of academic subjects have emerged to deal with areas which would have historically been the
subject of philosophy. These include psychology, anthropology and sociology.

James Lovelock - A Final Warning: by Nature Video

Foolish is not a value judgement like calling something stupid, EXPLAINED.

The original circle contained the word stupid which is a bit harsh because it can be taken to mean lacking common sense or intelligence.

Foolish is an adjective meaning silly, unwise or absurd.  This is a gentler correction to make when someone is caught in a vicious cycle like happens with addictions..