100 Maneiras de viver uma vida melhor

1. Accept Your Mistakes

You’re human. We, humans, are making mistakes. Accept what you did wrong and try to do better next time. No need to punish yourself forever. In fact, accepting your mistakes is the only way to make them disappear.

2. Accept Your Friends Mistakes

Maybe you got hurt by somebody. Happens. Just accept it and deal with it. People are making mistakes and if you can accept that for yourself, accept it for your friends too. In the end, all you need from them is their love.

3. Create A New Habit

We’re doing a lot of stuff on autopilot. Try to integrate in this category new things you want to attract into your life. Habits are powerful. Harness their energy for your own good. Start by creating a habit in 15 days.

4. Build Self Discipline

Don’t wait for other people to impose discipline on you. Start early. Create your own discipline. Although it sounds a little bit harsh, self discipline is a facilitator for many things in your life. It’s hard to get but great to have.

5. Make New Friends

Reach out. Don’t be afraid. Establish new contacts. The worst thing that may happen to you is to be rejected. Well, if that’s the case, move on. The reward of having true, long-lasting friendship is worth all the potential rejection.

6. Get A New Job

Shaking your comfort zone will often create a lot of value in your life. If you’re not satisfied with your job, just get a new one. The pitfall of not having money for a limited period of time is temporary, get over it.

7. Start A New Diet

You are, in a vast proportion, what you eat. Trying a new diet would often be the only needed change for a dramatic boost of your health and energy. Don’t necessarily have to be raw food, or even vegetarian, whatever works for you.

8. Keep A Journal

Write down you feelings, your ideas, your goals, your activity. Journaling is by far one of the most useful things I’ve done to change my life for the best. It works in such a silent, yet effective way. All you need is pen and paper.

9. Create And Keep A Morning Phrase

Whatever you say to yourself in the morning, it will most likely come true during the day. Why not taking advantage of it? Create a simple morning phrase and say it to yourself first thing in the morning. Is that simple.

10. Travel Far Away From Your Home

Traveling long distance is incredibly rewarding. It’s so exciting and full with unknown events. I only recently started to travel really far away from my home, but I do wonder how could I ever made it until now without this.

11. Learn To Take Risks

Your life may be so boring and fade because… err, you made it like this? When was the last time your tried something really difficult? When was the last time you challenged the odds doing something risky? Do it now.

12. Start Your Own Business

Be your own boss. Work your own hours. I know, it sounds so shallow, for you, who hate your job but still have to stay there because of that mortgage. Well, unless you make the first step, nothing is going to change. That’s for sure.

13. Change Your Work Space

Clean up your desk. Re-arrange furniture. Add some color to that space. Make the place where you work really enjoyable. So enjoyable that work there won’t be perceived as work anymore. It will be something you love to do.

14. Learn A New Language

Challenge your mind. Constantly. If you’re going to do number 10, you’re going to learn some new languages too. From my experience, learning a new language is a fantastic mind opener. Sometimes you don’t even have to travel there.

15. Find Reasons To Agree

Rather than disagree. We have this mindset of competition which makes constantly arguing over things. Well, stop that. You don’t have to force yourself into agreement, if it’s not the case, just trying to find some reasons will be enough.

16. Pay Yourself First

You can’t give something if you don’t have it. You can’t spread light onto others if you don’t have light from within. You can’t give wealth to others if you don’t have it for yourself first. Make yourself a service and pay yourself first.

17. Wake Up Early

This is not a habit, this is a lifestyle. Don’t just wake up early without a purpose. Be early. Be there before others. Look for opportunities and embrace them. Waking up early means keeping your eye open to every available opportunity.

18. Train Your Focus

Your focus is in fact your reality. Use it wisely. Train it constantly for it will enhance your reality in ways you never imagined. Keep your focus sharp as a razor blade and be prepared to experience life in fantastic shapes and colors.

19. Start A Blog

On whatever topic you want. Not only it will give you the opportunity to create something new and valuable but it will also bring new people into your life. Blogging is far more than a hype, is a personal development tool. A very good one.

20. Write An Ebook

You may think you don’t have a talent, but that’s completely wrong. And the easiest way to prove it wrong is to start writing an ebook. Any ebook. You pick the topic. It might be something you know or want to learn about. Write it. It’s fun.

21. Be Better, Not Perfect

Striving too much for perfection will ruin your life. It will wipe out all those little imperfections which are making you… human. Being better, on the other side, is rewarding. Look back at the yesterday you and just say: I’m better!

22. Stop Self Sabotage

You’ll be surprised by how much of a burden you can be to yourself. You are literally self sabotaging. Most of the time, unconsciously. If you have a long history of failure behind, that could mean you’ve become your worst enemy. Stop it.

23. Find Reasons To Love Your Life

Maybe life wasn’t fair with you. Yes, I know, I’ve been there: life is never fair. But it’s fantastic. It’s unique, unrepeatable, one of a kind, beautiful, simple, challenging, sweet, hard… Just take a step back and find reasons to love your life.

24. Try Something New

Maybe you’re sad because you’re bored. Have you ever thought about that? Just reach out and try something completely new. Go for a challenge, learn a new sport, pick a different restaurant or go for a comedy movie (if you’re the drama type). Just try it.

25. Avoid Fighting

Fighting is the biggest energy leak of your being. Trying to prove another guy wrong is so against your true nature. You’re here to acknowledge life’s wonders, not to prove anybody’s wrong. They’re not wrong, just have different opinions. And that’s part of life.

26. Stop Wasting Your Power

Are you doing something that you think you shouldn’t be doing right now? Well, that’s wasted power. That’s meaningless stuff promoted to the honor of being a part of your life. How long are you going to approve this? Why wasting power?

27. Learn To Ignore

I think they should be teaching this one in schools. We’re so focused on so many topics and think we have to do so many stuff, that our life is literally clogged with stuff. It’s good to do stuff, but learning to ignore stuff is much better.

28. Experiment Gratitude

When was the last time you said “thank you”? With all your heart? Everybody knows that an attitude of gratitude is the key to success, but almost nobody practices it. Well, start by experience gratitude first, and take it from there.

29. Recycle Your Aggression

Don’t throw it away, recycle it! Use it for something you really want! Call out those wild forces inside of you and put them to work. Aggression is part of your being, so don’t try to reject it, because it will only grow stronger. Recycle your aggression.

30. Release Your Guardians

Don’t touch that! Don’t eat that! Don’t go for that opportunity! Those are the sentences you hear when going for something you really want. Those are your guardians, your mental constructs made to protect you. Release them, you’ll be much better off.

31. Clean Up Your House

It’s fun. And it’s good for you. Make a habit out of cleaning up your house with joy and happiness. What’s outside is a mirror of what’s inside. If your house is a mess, probably your internal life is a disaster. Neat that stuff, it’s easy.

32. Write A Personal Mission Statement

You’re here with a reason. No matter how small you feel now, how insignificant others may made you feel, you have a purpose. Take the time to write your personal mission statement. It will bring light and direction into your life.

33. Dissolve Negative Opinions About Yourself

Whatever you think you may do, it’s half of what you can really do. And that’s because you have so many negative opinions about yourself. You can solve them. Just accept the fact that you have them and then start working on them.

34. Build Different Skills

Don’t stop learning. Don’t remain stuck in a single career, it’s boring and limiting. Learn different skills, possibly from completely unrelated fields. You never know when life will ask you to use them. Besides, it’s a lot of fun.

35. Manage Your Time As You Manage Your Money

Have you ever thought what would be if you would manage your time the same way you manage your money? Just give it a try. See where you spend most of your time, what the return of investment is and how rich are you in time.

36. Exercise

You don’t have to break the world record, or something. Just make sure you exercise constantly. It will make your body healthier and your mind clearer. It’s also one of the simplest and most affordable ways to improve your life.

37. Be A Parent

Having kids doesn’t necessarily means you’re a parent, and I know that very well. Being a parent will surely change your life forever: filling it with unconditional, life lasting love, care and warm feelings. You’ll live in love. And learn.

38. Throw Away One Object A Day From Your House

Maybe your life is breathing so hard just because it’s suffocated by objects. Learn to let them go. You may donate them, give to charity or simply throw them away, but don’t let the clutter stay in your way. You’re not the objects you have.

39. Read A Book Per Week

Or, alternatively, a fine selection of blogs. That will keep your mind alert and your focus steady. Reading is like good food for your brain, without it, it will go lazy, obese and unresponsive. But with the proper food it can become your best friend.

40. Start A Monthly Challenge

Being it physical, mental or social. Intend to acquire something new in your life in 30 days. Improve your health using new methods, or your relationships by starting new things together. Make it count. And count on it.

41. Call An Old Friend

It’s enlightening to meet somebody you haven’t talk to in the last years. Go right now and call an old friend, or a relative. It will bring up memories and it will create new opportunities. Don’t let the dust settle on your relationships.

42. Follow A Coincidence

Well, there aren’t any coincidences, I lied. Everything has a purpose. If you witness something which may seem like a coincidence, then you’re very lucky, you just got a sign. Follow it with trust, it will lead you well.

43. Play A Game

Any game. Just play. Like a child. Allow yourself to do something just for fun, without any goals, pressures or deadlines. Will make you understand that everything is a game. Sometimes a little bit harder, but still a game..

44. Forgive Somebody Out Of The Blue

Don’t hold that grudge for that past insult. Grudges are heavy and tend to make the take off for a new life a little bit difficult. The longer you hold that grudge, the more difficult the take off will be. Forgiveness will lift you off.

45. Stop Solving The Wrong Problems

You are not here to witness the bad things in your life. Nor the performance in itself. You are here to enjoy a journey. To become aware, To grow. So, stop solving the wrong problem and focus on what really matters.

46. Make Peace With An Old Enemy

That’s more than forgiveness, that’s the actual process of reversing a situation. Make peace with somebody. Turn it into your friend. I’m not saying this is easy, I know it first hand. But I also know it works. Enemies count down, friends count up.

47. Make A Promise To A Close Person And Keep It

It doesn’t have to be something big. It doesn’t have to be for someone special. It doesn’t have to be difficult also. But it has to be a commitment to somebody. Just reach out, make a promise, keep it and then enjoy the feeling after.

48. Break Up With A Person You Don’t Really Like

Maybe you’re friend with somebody just by habit, chemistry being dead for a long time now. Just break it up. Tell him. Ok, let’s unfriend us, this will not work. It will bring up something you thought you lost it long ago: courage.

49. Get A Thing You Wanted For A Long Time

But you didn’t had time or money to get it. Just go out and get it. Not only it will boost your self-respect, but it will also free your desire channel, which may be a little bit clogged by having one and only one desire for such a long time.

50. Stop Being Judgemental

With others AND with you. Excessive criticism will kill your enthusiasm. And if you think this post is something you shouldn’t read in the first place, then, my friend, you really are judgemental. Lighten up. Accept life as it is.

51. Change Your Wardrobe

You don’t know how much are you tied to what you wear. If you’re on the gray loving side, put some color in your clothes. If you’re on the black and white, try some gradients. Of course, your clothes are not you. Hence, they’re so easy to change, right?

52. Smile At Least 10 Times A Day

And I mean it, start to count that. Smiling is a sign of honesty and power. Everybody can cry over a disaster but only the most powerful can take bitterness with a smile. Exercise that power. And then try to go for 20 times a day.

53. Burn Some Old Memories

Maybe the notebook from your 7th grade? Maybe the teenage dumb poetry you wrote? Whatever it might be, break up. It might be difficult, but it might also be a sign that you’re so attached to the past that you can’t advance in your life anymore.

54. Plant A Tree

Or take care of a flower. Do it for at least several months. It will give you a sense of potential. Seeing that tree or that flower growing will make your self-confidence go up. If a flower can make it, why can’t I? Of course you can, now do it!

55. Move To Another Town Or Country

Maybe it’s time to change the environment? Take the plunge, move over. Pick another town or even another country. Like all the good stuff, it might be pretty difficult in the beginning, but you can bet it would shake everything really good!

56. Join A New Group

Go to a bikers meeting. Or, if you’re not a biker, to a toastmaster meeting. Join a group and see how you fit in. It will help if the group will be focused on some of your passions, of course. It will reveal a lot about your social skills.

57. Stop Watching TV

Television evolved a lot from the balanced news provider it was in the beginning up to the current manipulating tool. Just stop watching it for a week. And then for a month. Meanwhile, assess your psychological progress. You may be amazed.

58. Start A Totally Unexpected Hobby

Start making trains out of matches. Raise cobras. Put tiny vessels into tiny bottles. Do whatever it takes to move your mind from your problems for a while. And if you can create something nice in the process, why not doing it?

59. Randomly Hug A Stranger On The Street

Ok, this might be a little bit dangerous, but only if you think at it. If you’re doing it, chances are that you’re going to get your hug back. It will also help raising your adrenaline up to levels you never had for a very long time.

60. Set Up A Surprise Party

For your or for a friend. It’s always good for your mood, even if – or especially if – you’re down. Do a thematic one, invite friends and tell them to bring their friends. And then expect to meet new, wonderful persons. And of course, have fun.

61. Go Hiking

Do it for at least one week-end. Nature is more powerful than our human created environment. We don’t know how to channel the energy into our artificial habitats. If you want to recharge, go outside and stay in connection with the wilderness.

62. Get A Pet

Whatever works for you, a bird, a guinea pig, a dog or a cat. It will keep you alert and it will cheer you up when you’re down. Taking care of a pet is also easier if you’re overwhelmed with human interaction. Even from a pet, love is still love.

63. Write A Thank You Letter

You can send it or not, the real catch is to write it. Pick someone who helped you in the past. Start writing the letter and say everything you want to say to that person. It will make you understand what are you really grateful for in your life.

64. Meditate Daily

It’s the easiest thing you can do. True mediation acts like a mind emptier, leaving you open to the whole flow of the sensations and experiences you would otherwise ignore. You don’t even need a complicated technique, meditate as you see fit.

65. Say Something Nice To Somebody

Just like that. Out of the blue. Pick an unknown person and say something nice. After the initial surprise you’ll be amazed by the unmasked joy and gratitude they’re expressing. Admit it: you would like that too, isn’t it?

66. Say Something Nice To You

Ok, but if nobody is telling you nice things, why not start this yourself? Do it in whatever form you think it’s appropriate: send yourself emails, write in your calendar or leave yourself nice postits on the desk. With something nice just for you.

67. When I Doubt, Improvise

Being so scared for not knowing the answer, so nervouse that you may screw thins up… I know the feeling, I’ve been there too. Just go with the flow. Improvise. It will be so good for your unconscious mind. The real answer will be surprising.

68. Don’t Argue, Win Or Lose

This goes hand in hand with avoiding the fight, but it’s a little bit different. If you get caught in an argument, just accept that you can have only two outcomes from it: win or lose. Settle with one and just move on.

69. Stop Faking Your Life

It’s so easy to get caught in a flow of fakes. Society wants us to politely lie and you need to lie sometimes. Just stop it. Being authentic is the best thing you can do. No need to hide your sorrow, nor your joy. They’re both part of life.

70. Define Goals

Again, that goes hand in hand with writing a personal mission but it’s more than that. It’s the habit of clearly deciding – and, subsequently, describing – where you want to go. Do you have a goal? A passion, maybe? Go for it! And be verbose.

71. Help Others

Reach out and try to see if you can help others. You don’t have to be a Samaritan, just go out there and support somebody. The biggest trick of helping is really surprising: although it seems you’re giving, you’re in fact receiving a lot more.

72. Go Social

Mingle, interact, go out. Get used to meet new people. Make this a habit and you’ll soon get used to do new things too. The goal is not to be the best networker in the world, but to be connected to as many energy sources as you can get.

73. Spend Some Time Alone

Subsequently, make sure you set aside enough time for your own. You don’t necessarily need to recharge, but you need this time in order to get a new perspective. Stop for a while and look around. Where are you? Where do you want to be?

74. Fix Something By Yourself

Go fix a broken window, or a scratch on your car. Don’t call for a specialist, get involved, see how you can have an impact on things around you. Work with your hands, prepare to sweat. It will instantly make you feel better.

75. Create Value

Make things that others need too. Make something useful. Don’t follow blind or outdated commitments, go for what really makes a change around you. Creating value is the core of your activity here and the only thing you really have to strive for.

76. Do A Random Act Of Kindness

Doesn’t have to be in the form of a nice compliment this time. You don’t even need to communicate it to the target person. Just do an incognito service to someone. See how this makes you feel. Think how many times you received that.

77. One More Second

Create the habit of looking at things for one more second. Spend one more second before taking an important decision. Delay something. Time will follow your intention and open some unexpected window for you. Slow it down a little.

78. Understand What People Want From You

What you can do is not always what people want from you. Clearing that confusion alone could bring an immense relief to your life. You don’t have to immediately provide what they’re wanting, but if you do, you may have some big surprises.

79. Break An Old Bad Habit

Breaking a bad habit is difficult. But breaking an old bad habit will free an incredible amount of time into your life. Quit smoking or stop talking on the phone for hours. Whatever you break, it will change your life for the best.

80. Stop Complaining

Complaining is like an open invitation for troubles. The more you complain about something, the more of that something you invite into your life. Cut it out. You don’t get any comfort out of complaining, only troubles.

81. Reject What You Don’t Want

It’s so simple, yet so underrated. Society wants us to complain even when we don’t really like stuff. Like forcing us to smile when we don’t find it funny. Allow yourself to walk away from something you don’t like. Just do it!

82. Being Is Better Than Having

Too much and too often we shape our life’s fulfillment degree to the amount we possess. The fundamental mistake. If you’re doing it, stop it right now. You’re not what you’re having. Being is so much better than having.

83. Listen To Your Critics

This one might be difficult in the beginning but once you get used to it it’s fantastic. You may find out a lot of stuff about yourself that you didn’t know about. You think you are one kind of person, but others may disagree.

84. Don’t Take It Personally

Never. Your world is shaped by your reaction to things, not by the things themselves. Don’t get upset, don’t think that somebody knows you enough to make right assumptions about you. Acknowledge and move on.

85. Laugh

This time is not about smiling. It’s about laughing. Don’t you ever miss another opportunity to laugh. Especially at yourself. The longer your laughing sessions, the shorter your misery ones. Looks like a nice deal, isn’t it?

86. Go With Passion

Don’t let your rational mind stand in the way of your passion. If you found – or at least felt, even occasionally – something that thrills you, you’re there. You don’t need a confirmation on this from anybody. Go with your passion.

87. Trust Your Emotions

Don’t underestimate your emotions. Or overestimate them. Your emotions are your feed-back system and for that they are very important. Trying to ignore your emotions is like depriving yourself from lights in a car running in the middle of the night.

88. Live It Like A Holiday

Ever observed how nice you feel during your holiday? How light, joyful and authentic? Everything is just wonderful. Well, you are on a continuous holiday here. It starts with your birth and end with your death. Live it like a holiday.

89. Make A Story Out Of It

Do you like a good story? I love it. Make everything in your life story-worthwhile. Make it as it would be a fantastic journey and you will be at all time the observer, the hero and the narrator. Create the story of your life.

90. Stop Being A Follower

Admiring is nice. But being admired is even better. Stop trying to fit in other people’s shoes. Find your own path. If that means breaking up completely your lifestyle, so be it. If you are “like” somebody else you can’t be “like” yourself anymore.

91. Watch Your Beliefs

Your beliefs are not you. But they are shaping your life constantly. You have the power to change them at any point in your existence. But in order to do that, you must first start to observe them, to isolate them, to accept them.

92. Stop Lying

To others and to yourself. Although it might ease a complicated situation, a lie is not good in the long run. The trick is that if you’re telling a lie you’re altering your reality. And a distorted reality will be impossible to handle.

93. Stop Reacting To Stuff

And start acting on stuff. Initiate things. Start projects. Predict situations and be there before the hurricane hits. Reacting to stuff is a victim paradigm. Stop being a victim and start acting. Create your life instead of being the creation of others.

94. Live Today

Not yesterday, not tomorrow. Go for what you can do today and leave yesterday behind for good. It’s not here anymore. And tomorrow doesn’t even exist yet, so why bother. All you have is today. Don’t waste it.

95. Expect The Unexpected

If there’s something unusual that happens to you, go for it. The unexpected is a signal of an opportunity. It will not always be nice, this unexpected, but whenever it’s around, magical things are happening. Wait for it. Praise for it.

96. Enjoy

Like being in joy. Like giving permission to yourself to extract joy from any situation you’re in. Even if it’s bad. Or especially if it’s bad. Joy is everywhere, you just have to let it manifest through you. Don’t resist joy. Don’t reject it.

97. Make Your Own Rules

And stick with them. Go for what works for you, not the others. Go for what you want, not the others. Including me. Make your own system and be proud of it. You may upset some people in the process, but hey, that’s life.

98. Love

Unconditionally. Totally. Constantly. Restlessly. Love is the only glue that keeps your life running. You were born out of love and you carry it deep down in your being. Love is never about the others, it’s about you.

99. Get Rid Of Labels

Things are what they are. Don’t use labels anymore, use directly the things. Your notion of “right” and “wrong” are nothing but labels. In a different country your “right” might be “wrong”. Don’t charge yourself with this unneeded burden.

100. No Regrets

Regretting something is another form of not accepting reality. What you can do about it now? It’s gone. It doesn’t exist anymore. Focus on what you can change: your present moment. Not yesterday, not tomorrow. Now. Live now.

A história do jovem ambicioso

 Max Gehringer na CBN.

Um jovem ambicioso foi admitido por uma empresa. Como tinha múltiplas habilidades, ele decidiu descobrir qual era o setor que lhe daria melhores condições para construir uma carreira mais rapidamente. E fez esta pergunta ao gerente financeiro. "Finanças, evidentemente", respondeu o gerente, "porque, no fim das contas, uma empresa existe para gerar e administrar dinheiro".
Em seguida, o jovem perguntou ao gerente de vendas, qual era o setor mais importante. "Vendas, é claro", respondeu o gerente, "porque só ela traz recursos para dentro da empresa". O jovem anotou a resposta e foi falar com o gerente de recursos humanos. E ele respondeu que uma empresa se sustenta sobre o talento e a motivação das pessoas, e portanto, recursos humanos era o setor mais importante.
Mas o gerente de informática tinha outra visão, e explicou ao jovem que a tecnologia está cada vez mais substituindo as pessoas, com vantagens. "Muito em breve, sem dúvida, as empresas serão controladas por profissionais de informática".
Já o gerente de marketing explicou que maketing cria o desejo de compra, e por isso é disparado o setor mais importante. O gerente de desenvolvimento esclareceu que seu setor era mais importante porque novos produtos são o oxigênio da empresa.
Ao final de 30 dias, o jovem chegou a conclusão de que havia 15 setores na empresa, e todos eles eram os mais importantes. Até que finalmente, o jovem teve a oportunidade de conversar com o presidente da empresa, que tinha apenas 34 anos. E o jovem perguntou como o presidente havia descoberto tão rapidamente a melhor direção a seguir. E o presidente respondeu: "Quando eu tinha a sua idade, eu rezava".
Impressionado, o jovem perguntou: "Então, uma carreira bem sucedida é uma questão de fé"? "Não", disse o presidente. "Eu rezava para que os jovens ambiciosos que concorriam comigo continuassem a fazer perguntas, enquanto eu me dedicava a fazer o meu trabalho."
Max Gehringer, para CBN.

Como Pensar!!!

How to Think

Gostei muito desse texto, vale a pena ler, mas infelizmente não tenho tempo pra traduzir!

Managing brain resources in an age of complexity.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a class called "How to Think," which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure. In the process of thinking about this, I composed 10 rules, which I sometimes share with students. I've listed them here, followed by some practical advice on implementation.

1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

2. Learn how to learn (rapidly). One of the most important talents for the 21st century is the ability to learn almost anything instantly, so cultivate this talent. Be able to rapidly prototype ideas. Know how your brain works. (I often need a 20-minute power nap after loading a lot into my brain, followed by half a cup of coffee. Knowing how my brain operates enables me to use it well.)

3. Work backward from your goal. Or else you may never get there. If you work forward, you may invent something profound--or you might not. If you work backward, then you have at least directed your efforts at something important to you.

4. Always have a long-term plan. Even if you change it every day. The act of making the plan alone is worth it. And even if you revise it often, you're guaranteed to be learning something.

5. Make contingency maps. Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things. Then, find the things that are not dependent on anything but have the most dependents, and finish them first.

6. Collaborate.

7. Make your mistakes quickly. You may mess things up on the first try, but do it fast, and then move on. Document what led to the error so that you learn what to recognize, and then move on. Get the mistakes out of the way. As Shakespeare put it, "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices protocols. That way, when you return to something you've done, you can make it routine. Instinctualize conscious control.

9. Document everything obsessively. If you don't record it, it may never have an impact on the world. Much of creativity is learning how to see things properly. Most profound scientific discoveries are surprises. But if you don't document and digest every observation and learn to trust your eyes, then you will not know when you have seen a surprise.

10. Keep it simple. If it looks like something hard to engineer, it probably is. If you can spend two days thinking of ways to make it 10 times simpler, do it. It will work better, be more reliable, and have a bigger impact on the world. And learn, if only to know what has failed before. Remember the old saying, "Six months in the lab can save an afternoon in the library."

Two practical notes. The first is in the arena of time management. I really like what I call logarithmic time planning, in which events that are close at hand are scheduled with finer resolution than events that are far off. For example, things that happen tomorrow should be scheduled down to the minute, things that happen next week should be scheduled down to the hour, and things that happen next year should be scheduled down to the day. Why do all calendar programs force you to pick the exact minute something happens when you are trying to schedule it a year out? I just use a word processor to schedule all my events, tasks, and commitments, with resolution fading away the farther I look into the future. (It would be nice, though, to have a software tool that would gently help you make the schedule higher-resolution as time passes...)

The second practical note: I find it really useful to write and draw while talking with someone, composing conversation summaries on pieces of paper or pages of notepads. I often use plenty of color annotation to highlight salient points. At the end of the conversation, I digitally photograph the piece of paper so that I capture the entire flow of the conversation and the thoughts that emerged. The person I've conversed with usually gets to keep the original piece of paper, and the digital photograph is uploaded to my computer for keyword tagging and archiving. This way I can call up all the images, sketches, ideas, references, and action items from a brief note that I took during a five-minute meeting at a coffee shop years ago--at a touch, on my laptop. With 10-megapixel cameras costing just over $100, you can easily capture a dozen full pages in a single shot, in just a second.

^{Cite as: Boyden, E. S. "How to Think." Ed Boyden's Blog. Technology Review. 11/13/07. (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/boyden/21925/).}

Imagine Cup.....Segunda Fase!!!!!

Passei pra segunda fase do imagine cup 2008, cuja final acontecerá em julho na França, nas duas categorias em que me inscrevi. Na categoria "Projeto Hoshimi" eu e meu companheiro de equipe Leandro Pilan da Rocha passamos com pontuação máxima, e na categoria de desenvolvimento Embedded meu time o Galhofa Team, assim nomeado em honra a nossa antiga republica, tambem conseguiu ir para a segunda fase com o projeto Hermes.
Todos os competidores que passam para a segunda fase da categoria Embedded recebem uma e-box 4300, a qual estamos aguardando ansiosamente.

Parabens pra gente....

Mais info: www.imaginecup.com
http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox4300/tabid/190/Default.aspx
http://imaginecup.com/MyStuff/MyTeam.aspx?TeamID=7489

Acampamento M.A.S 2008

Acampamento 2008 do MAS foi demais, eu fui com a Estaca Osasco, e com a Estaca Pirituba e mais algumas pessoas de alguams outras estacas....quase não tirei fotos mas nem por isso vou esquecer desses quatro dias de carnaval que foram incriveis.
Chegamos no acampamento perto do meio dia de sabado e a primeira coisa que a ala nova granada fez foi escalar a parede de alpinismo até o topo....depois pegamos nossos alojamentos.....
Aconteceu muita coisa legal, entramos na piscina de madrugada, jogamos truco( Eu e o John destruimos qualquer um que tentou tirar uma, a gente blefa demais ;P), jogamos UNO, Futebol e zuamos até dizer chega.
O John como sempre aprontou as dele, levou umas "bombinhas" que fariam qualquer presidente de potencia mundial invadir o pais alegando a existencia de armas de destruição em massa. Ele tambem forneceu os sprays de espuma, com os quais transformei a cabeça dele num enorme Sunday....
Agora oque pegou mesmo no acampamento foi minha frase....sim de autoria minha....No fim do acampamento todo mundo já tinha ouvido esse que é dos vecos o mais fraco, mas pelo visto teve muito coco que rolou mesmo....
"Imagine que eu estou subindo uma ladeira com 2 cocos na mão, ...deixo cair.....e ai? ROLA OU NÃO ROLA?????"

Foi bom demais......

O código de honra dos samurais

Alguns principios do codigo de honra dos samurais são muito uteis para os dias de hj, experimente coloca-los em pratica

Os Samurais apareceram no Japão no século XII, com o objetivo de proteger os feudos dos xonguns num período no qual aconteciam muitas batalhas internas. Entre os Samurais, havia um rígido código de honra, o Bushido, que significa, o caminho do guerreiro, o objetivo dessas regras era aperfeiçoar o caráter e disciplinar o comportamento dos guerreiros.

As 10 principais regras do Bushido são:

1. A busca de uma morte digna. O samurai deveria estar pronto para morrer a qualquer momento;

2. A preservação da honra pessoal, de seus ancestrais e de seu senhor;

3. Ao falhar ou manchar sua honra, dos ancestrais ou de seu senhor, o samurai teria de cometer o suicídio ritual, o seppuku;

4. O guerreiro deveria sempre carregar consigo o seu par de espadas. A espada era a sua alma;

5. Ser corajoso. Melhor morrer do que ser chamado de covarde;

6. Ser justo e benevolente com os mais fracos, mas exigir respeito;

7. Manter sua palavra a qualquer custo;

8. Dedicar-se às artes como forma de aperfeiçoamento;

9. Ter gratidão à família e às pessoas que o ajudaram;

10. Lealdade ao seu senhor e dedicação ao trabalho.

Leitura Dinâmica e Flash Reader

Continuando minha Jornada em aprender a aprender melhor...


Utilizei por 12 dias o Flash Reader e agora posto aqui meus pensamentos e resultados obtidos com o curso até agora:


-1)O software é bom, deixa um pouco a desejar em muitos quesitos técnicos como design e forma de operação, especialmente por ter botões que piscam e que vc tem que saber a hora exata de clicar ou nada acontece, fora o fato de utilizar o mouse em momentos que o teclado seria mais viavel, especialmente nos momentos de testar sua velocidade onde vc acaba tendo um teste menos preciso devido ao fato de ter que usar o mouse para iniciar e parar os testes.Mesmo assim o software realiza a parte dificil dos exercicios de visão que é torna-los mais atrativos.

-2)O software possui diversos textos para leitura e exercicios bem elaborados e atraentes(dentro do possivel é claro) tornando a chatisse dos exercicios de visão suportavel e algumas vezes até divertida.

-3) Os resultados que obive até agora não foram em nada mirabolantes entretanto houveram muitos, na realidade considero que estou ainda numa fase bem inicial mesmo depois de 40 minutos de treino por 12 dias. Melhorei bastante a minha leitura mas a alteração de velocidade não foi tão grande qto esperada, sai da casa das 200 palavras por minuto para a casa das 400 palavras por minuto, alcancei resultados ainda maiores que esse mas o esforço necessário para ler mais rapido que isso torna a leitura cansativa e entediante.

-4)Acredito que um dos principais obstaculos com relação a ler dinamicamente se encontre na subvocalização que é o fato de vc ter que falar as palavras na mente para le-las, consigo apos os treinos evitar a subvocalização com algum esforço mas sinto perder compreensão, não estou dizendo que é impossivel eliminar a subvocalização e ainda assim compreender plenamente mas ainda estou abaixo desse nivel.

-5)Pretendo continuar a praticar a leitura dinamica até que os resultados sejam visiveis e permanentes no meu modo de ler casual, afinal acredito ser esse o maior desafio de qualquer aprendizado, tornar o que foi aprendido em uma segunda natureza para não mais ter que se preocupar em aplicar e assim realizar a leitura dinamica de forma automatica.


Em breve darei minhas considerações finais sobre o curso e os resultados obtidos, mas por enquanto digo que vale a pena.

Abraço

Digitação

Uma das areas que decidi aprimorar foi a velocidade de output, e iniciei meus experimentos de aprendizado atraves de um curso de digitação...assim como a grande maioria dos internautas atuais eu era o tipo que digitava bem rapido porem com um metodo errado e mais cansativo que a maneira correta de digitar e ainda por cima tinha que olhar para o teclado para poder digitar corretamente.
Comecei minha procura por cursos de digitação e cheguei a conclusão obvia que seria apenas mais um caso de força de vontade, afinal vc não precisa realmente aprender a digitar e sim praticar o metodo correto, sendo assim achei uma ficura que mostrava quais dedos usar em cada tecla e baixei diversos programas ou cursos de digitação, me decepcionei com a grande maioria mas achei um que gostei, não porque realmente seja bom mas sim por que é o menos pior entre os que achei.
Optei pelo programa TypeFaster(facil de achar na net) e iniciei assim as aulas utilizei tambem um software em portugues mas esse typeFaster foi o que mais utilizei.

Possiveis problema no desenvolvimento .
Os problemas que enfrentei para superar-me na velocidade e forma de digitação foram:
-No inicio para digitar corretamente eu acabava levando 20 vezes mais tempo do que se digitasse errado porem com muito esforço impus a regra de somente digitar corretamente ou não digitar nada.
-O numero de erros de digitação aumentou muito, aspecialmente no inicio já que muitas vezes apertava as teclas erradas.
-Força de vontade foi a palavra chave, posso resumir as dificuldades em um simples...FOI MUITO CHATO, afinal mais dificil que adquirir um bom habito é se livrar de um ruim.

No final das contas consegui fazer o curso inteiro e aprender e manter-me digitando corretamente mas tive que investir uma 20 horas de treino e muita paciencia, portanto é plenamente possivel a qualquer ser humano com determinação suficiente aprender a digitar corretamente.

Velocidade: Falhei em fazer testes antes de iniciar o curso e por isso não posso dizer com certeza absoluta em quanto minha velocidade aumentou, mas comparando o teste de depois de 2 dias de curso e o teste do final do curso consegui melhorar minha velocidade em 70%....

Voce pode testar sua velocidade aqui: Teste sua velocidade de digitação

Eu consigo agora digitar cerca de 34 wpm(palavras por minuto) mas por digitar em ingles isso provavelmente influencia no teste.

Vale a pena aprender a digitar corretamente.Considero encerrada minha busca por velocidade de OutPut, ainda pretendo melhorar minha velocidade de digitação mas isso será uma tarefa futura....

Abraços

As 4 Linhas de Desenvolvimento Intelectual

Sou estudante de Ciências da computação e técnico em informática, portanto algumas comparações são quase que inevitáveis... e pensando um pouco na semelhança entre homens e máquinas eu cheguei a seguinte conclusão, para estar a frente é necessario trabalhar algumas áreas ...pensei comigo mesmo como poderia ser mais produtivo em praticamente qualquer tarefa se fosse capaz de aperfeiçoar a entrada de dados(input) a velocidade de processamento , a capacidade de armazenamento de informação e a saida de dados(output) e comecei a pesquisar como isso seria possivel assim cheguei a alguns temas de pesquisa, os quais pretendo aplicar algum tempo de estudo e verificar por mim mesmo se realmente funcionam.
Separei alguns metodos, os quais estudarei nos proximos meses e postarei aqui minhas concluões sobre os mesmos, os metodos são:

-Para entrada de dados, escolhi a Leitura dinâmica e usarei alem de algumas apostilas o programa de nome Flash Reader.

-Para processamento de dados, comecei com alguns jogos de logica e matematica como sudoku por exemplo e descubri um incrivel tipo de calculo mental chamado de Vedic Math, entretanto não consegui encontrar material extenso sobre o assunto alem de alguns tutoriais, bem impressionantes diga-se de passagem, e por isso utilizarei um metodo chamado Power Memory Math.

-Para melhorar a retensão de informação escolhi o metodo mnemonico de memorização...e utilizarei um livro chamado como desenvolver uma memoria super poderosa de Harry Lorayne e um curso de memorização em MP3.

-E para saida de dados, esse talvez foi o mais descepcionante dos metodos encontrados, resolvi usar um curso de digitação agora nem me lembro o nome do melhor deles pois testei mais de 15 no total sendo a maioria muito simples....


Em breve postarei os resultados que fui obtendo em cada uma das categorias.Se você conhece algum metodo que funcione ou já usou um dos metodos citados por favor deixe um comentário ou envie-me um email: ticosanjr@gmail.com

Grande Abraço!

Livros de uma Vida

Existem algumas experiencias que servem de separadores de aguas na vida, o leitura de Musashi é uma delas...o Autor Eiji Yoshikawa divide sua obra em sete livros:A Terra, A Agua , O Fogo, O Vento, O Céu , As Duas Forças e A Harmonia Final, os cinco primeiros livros são uma referencia ao gorin, os cinco elementos que segundo o Budismo compõe toda a materia ou ainda os ciclos pelo qual o espirito humano tem que passar até atingir a perfeição, começando pela terra impura até o estágio mais alto, o céu ou o nirvana.
Durante os livros pode-se acompanhar a evolução de Shinmen Miyamoto Musashi Masana rumo a perfeição ao mesmo tempo que vemos os erros de Hon`i-den Matahachi que o levarão quase ao fundo do poço, é uma verdadeira lição de vida e por isso mesmo vale a pena ler tal livro.
Procurarei classificar as fases de meu progresso dentro dos livros de Musashi e assim ter uma melhor visão geral de tal progresso.
Ahh e sim o mangá conhecido como vagabond foi baseado no livro....

Diário do TicoSan

Minha idéia principal ao criar esse blog era compartilhar alguns pensamentos e ideias que me ocorressem com aqueles que se interessarem, a idéia surgiu recentemente quando decidi ler novamente o livro "Musashi", alguns anos atras quando li o livro pela primeira vez fiquei com muita vontade de manter um registro dos pontos mais importantes de minha vida, porem como todo mundo sabe a vida é corrida e a gente acaba nunca tendo tempo pra testar coisas novas....Porem recentemente ou iniciar a releitura do livro percebi que poderia aprender muito com as coisas que registrasse e resolvi por a mão na massa.
A ideia aqui é registrar os acontecimentos importantes no meu desenvolvimento pessoal, permitir que as pessoas me conheçam melhor e manter um registro das coisas interessantes que descubro ou aprendo tanto na vida quanto na faculdade.
Espero que você faça bom proveito do blog e que minhas experiências sirvam de ajuda para superar as dificuldades semelhantes que lhe aparecerem....
Grande Abraço!