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Improving Yourself is Easy
- Oompa 15y agoI'm making my own journey through similar milestones, and I'd agree. It is easy!
- holman 15y agoSomething I didn't include in the actual post: I don't want to say everything is easy. If one of your goals is to scale your service to a five-hundred box setup, that's probably "hard". But everyone has those vague, important motivations in their lives that are more a matter of willpower than anything else. Those are the meaningful goals. Those are the "easy" goals.
- vladimirchen 15y agoI completely and utterly agree! Nice and encouraging lines of wisdom you have there. Congrats on making a continuous progress and setting a new standard all the time. Thanks for sharing this with us, and I am pretty sure it will kick some butts to do something :)
- glimcat 15y agoIf you set easy goals, meeting them is easy. Now if you can just learn how to break seemingly unachievable goals into easy goals, you'll be all set.
- Mizza 15y agoThe way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them.. (Terry Pratchett, Truckers. I read this when I was 6 years old but it always stuck with me.)
- shadowfox 15y agoI do agree in general with what you are saying. But sometimes the trouble is that the subdivision (at least a good one) is hard to find. Often enough it is that you don't understand the problem well enough. But sometimes you just can't seem to find the proper sub-problems. I have had this experience while doing research work.
- tomjen3 15y agoThats true and I hope you often encounter that problem in research work; if you do not, you are too far from the edge. And if somebody things "that never happens to me", I kindly ask you to take a look at the the Collatz conjecture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture].
- onan_barbarian 15y agoThose goals aren't exactly "win the Olympic Games", "make a contribution to P=NP?", etc. It's good to set goals and meet them, but there are qualitative differences between the experience of completing a major project with substantial uncertainty and a lot of pressure vs. "2009: Make it to a Ruby conference". Drawing the conclusion that "everyone's vague, important motivations are more a matter of willpower than anything else" is making some pretty major assumptions about the modesty of everyone's motivations.
- codeslush 15y agoI don't agree with your comment, but I get what you're saying. I think the guy should be applauded for what he did do - which is substantially more than a lot of people do! He had some goals - he achieved them. The lesson he learned from this is likely to lead to larger and larger goals - and I'm willing to bet 10 to 1 that he ends up accomplishing a lot over the next ten years as a result of the "little" steps he has taken already. Good job!
- tren 15y agoOut of them all, I'd say the 2011 goal could potentially be daunting for people. Speaking at a tech conference, you really need to know your stuff. Slightly more concrete objectives might help too. Good to have general guidelines though.