Life lessons, and morning rambles
As the morning alarm was ringing at 5.30, I was deep into my dreams, having a discussion with someone about how I would prefer to study without work, as opposed to work without study. Yes, that's me. I like to learn, and sometimes I am like a sponge for new information.
There are two approaches to learning and the first is to improve your best skills further, until you do something close to perfection and beyond, a god between humans. The second is to learn about your weaknesses and challenge them until you can do that as good as the average Joe. This one will make you a well-rounded, perfect human. Which one do you prefer?
And sometimes I am like a broken record, but if you are young, or not only, in order to save time, a lot of time, in the future life, there are two skills that you need to improve as much as you can. The first one is fast reading, which will dramatically improve with only 2 to 5 hours of training. And believe me, there will be a lot of times when you need to read stuff. The second one is a meta-skill, and you may need your whole life to continuously hone it and make it better, I am talking about learning how to learn, or ultra-learning. There are many techniques here and methods, but the best way, at least for me, is to take and implement the parts that I like, that work for me and ignore the ones that don't.
An important bit is to check your progress, and doing a plan at the beginning of the year, with a little check on the previous one, is one of my guilty pleasures. I include financial, physical and health, social, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual progress checks and that little part of me that doesn't like to leave unfinished businesses will make me cover most of the tasks. Some work better than others, but nevertheless, a job done is a job done. I heard this one somewhere, and I believe it is totally true. If you want a job to be improved, as the laziest person you know to do it, they will always find shortcuts if possible. Then just apply what they find. This is also a good thing, and you can learn it. How can I do this better and faster? What do I need in order to improve it?
Well, the time to check another is getting closer, and while this was not one of the best years, was not that bad either. Some steps were achieved, some disasters were avoided, and some were not. While I had no funds on FTX, I still got caught with quite a bit of my funds on Celsius and BlockFi. And I do not cry about Luna, as I bought some at the beginning, with maybe $100, still, knowing that I could sell it for 20K at its high. Instead, I sell it for that $100 as, funny enough, I was on a flight when it happened, and by the time a reached my PC, it was more or less done. The lesson we all learned, some more painful than others, is to start to look for decentralized alternatives instead of trusting centralized exchanges. Cost me 25% of my portfolio to learn this, the hard way, and yet, it is making me laugh right now.
What are your methods of studying and learning and what shortcuts do you use? I will be interested to find out more about it.
See you later! I'm going on my way for now.
George
