Get your brain in motion
Read carefully and remember.
We do three types of Jobs here:
1) Cheap
2) Quick
3) Good
You can have any two, so:
a) A good quick job (won’t be cheap)
b) A cheap good job (won’t be quick)
c) A quick job cheap (won’t be good)
In other words
Cheap + fast = lower quality work
Fast + good = expensive
Good + cheap = not happening anytime soon
There is always a trade off and you should decide what your priorities are.
At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say that I contributed more than I criticized.
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Elle Kaplan highlights in her article on INC eight things that great bosses tell their employees daily to motivate them.
1. “I have total confidence in you.”
2. “This is what I want us to accomplish…”
3. “What can we do better next time?”
4. “I want to play to your strengths.”
5. “What is your opinion?”
6. “How can I better support you?”
7. “Let me know if you have any questions.”
8. “Good work.”
It is a useful list that can be handy in many occasions…
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Having to give a speech in front of an audience can cause some people to shake, sweat, get sick, or freeze in terror. The root of this fear is simple: It’s scary because it’s unfamiliar to anyone who doesn’t regularly perform to a crowd.
The best way to become a better public speaker is through repetition and feedback from a trusted source, but there are several habits you can establish early that will make your journey easier.
Here are some of Joshua Rinaldi, the former president of New York Toastmasters, top tips for becoming a confident, effective speaker, published on the World Economic Forum:
Read more here
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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English has become the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language?
In this TED talk, Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue, which can be summarised as:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Henry Ford
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The Diplo calendar 2021 realized by Stefano Baldi reveals some lesser known places in Italy and presents a selection of quotes referred to the role music in our everyday life.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of June:
Without music, life would be a blank to me
Image source: Comune di Città della Pieve – Marco Possieri
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