• Find happiness in your career:
    • Motivation theory - hygiene factors vs motivation factors:
      • Hygiene factors are status, compensation, job security, work condition, company policies,…
        • Bad hygiene causes dissatisfaction - low salary, poor condition,…
        • Improving the hygience factors of your job won’t make you love it, instead just stop you from hating it.
      • Motivation factors are challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.
        • Motivation is less about the external stimulation but more about what’s inside of you and your work.
        • It’s a job that truly meaningful to you, is challenging and intersting, allows you to grow professionally, provides you good oppoturnities,…
      • One of the easiest mistake is to focus on over-satisfy the hygiene factors over the motivation factors.
        • Better salaries, more prestigious title, nicer office are not gonna make you happy.
        • That said, ask yourself frequently:
          • Is this work meaningful to me?
          • Is this job going to give me a chance to develop?
          • Am I going to learn new things?
          • Will I have an opportunity for recognition and achievement?
          • Am I going to be given responsibility?
    • How to find a career that both motivates you and satisfies the hygiene factors?
      • Before taking a job, ask yourself what assumptions have to prove true for you to be happy.
        • Is this something that you enjoy doing?
        • What evidence do you have?
      • Find ways to to test these assumptions.
    • How to make sure you’re heading in the right decision on a daily basis?
      • Look at how you manage your resources - time, energy, talent, wealth.
      • Prioritize on things that require long-term investment (building a good relationship with your family, building a business, raising a child,…)
        • It’s often sad to see the same patterns happening over again in the personal lives of many ambituos people - though they believe that family is important, they actually allocate few resources for them.
  • Find happiness in your relationships:
    • Relationships with family and close friends are one the greatest sources of happiness in life.
    • It needs CONSISTENT attention and care, though it’s difficult because.
      • You’ll be routinely tempted to invest your resources elsewhere that provide you a more immediate payoff.
      • Your family and friends rarely shout the loudest to demand your attention.
    • The clock of building a fulfilling relationship is ticking from the start.
    • Understand what’s the most important to the other person by asking yourself “What job does one most need me to do?”.
    • Children need to do more than learning new skills.
      • Allow them to be challenged, let them solve hard problems independently and develop values themselves.
      • Don’t afraid to let them fail.
  • Live a life of integrity (or stay out of jail):
    • Integrity requires constant self-awareness.
    • The best way to avoid the consequences of uncomfortable moral concessions is to never start making one in the first place.

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