Getting means achieving something that we work for. Becoming is one step forward from getting. It's being transformed to next level and staying there.
We confuse these two very often. They are very different from each other.
Becoming means transforming yourself into new version. You can lose after you get but you can't lose what you become.
So don't focus on getting more, instead focus of becoming more because it's worth it.
We are often too quick to judge the situations we encounter. We see a difficult situation as a bad day and a favorable one as good luck. Much of what we do is shaped by the way we feel about the moment.
But are we too quick to judge the situation? I think we are.
Without waiting, and without looking at it in hindsight, we make conclusions based on our past experience and our habits. But the truth is that every situation may carry more meaning than our first reaction allows us to see. What looks painful now may later reveal its purpose. What feels unfair may still be working in our favor in ways we do not yet understand.
So when we face a good or bad moment, and when we go through something difficult, we should ask ourselves, “What more does it mean?”
Dream is something that we fantasize about without any plan or action. Goal, on the other hand is something we set plan for, execute and achieve.
Dreaming without action is just wasting time and feeling good about it. The truth is you can't reach that dream.
It is your job to design your system, whether it be in business or in real life. You can't expect other to design the system for you.
You have to put the unreasonable amount of effort to make the system magical- to make it work.
Designing the system is as important as making roads before driving vehicles.
Changing our mind and habit is difficult. It's hard to remove our old habits than to make new. It requires constant determination and activeness to remove the old ones and substituting it with a new one.
Changing is difficult...
It doesn't matter what we call it "work-life balance" or "work life integration" or "work-life flexibility". They all have the same purpose and end. All define the way to life.
Work life balance is balancing your work and life. Work life integration means blending or integrating work with life, hence making them in unison. And work life flexibility is being flexible with work goals and life goals, providing proper time to each.
All of them serves the same purpose even though they use different words.
The job of science is to discover things. They discover new technology, new drugs, new treatments, and new machinery. They discover artificial implants. If your heart is not working. This can be fixed by replacing with artificial pacemaker.
The future of all the discovery relies on politics and economics. The technology lasts long if it drives economic to the world or if it has gains for political issues. The discovery of atom bombs, nuclear bombs, and missiles were popular because it helped during the world wars during mid 20th century.
We are ignorant of lot of things. We don't know the damn thing about the whole universe, yet we are learning and progressing. How?
It's by experiment...
As Yuval Noah Harari insists in his book sapiens," Fire gave us power, gossip helped us cooperate, mythology maintained law and order, money gave us something we can really trust, contradiction created culture and science made us deadly."
We have learned a lot. It's through the experiment. We experiment, we learn; we execute, we progress.
For an instance, many culture believed that lightening was the hammer of angry god to punish the sinner, until in the 18th century Benjamin Franklin experimented flying a kite while lightening, which proved it is just an electric current, which helped us to invent lightening rod.
There are many such examples in the history of human kind which suggests us that every inventions and knowledge is through experiment. Nobody knows the perfect solution. It's all about experiments.
Everything is about self-awareness, happiness and work-ethic...
Self awareness is being aware of everything; it is understanding every consequences as a reason for something good. It can't be defined properly. If we try to define it, it will lose its meaning.
Happiness is always the consequence of self-awareness.
Work ethic defines both self-awareness and happiness. They emerge from it.
Today we are aware about many things, the external and the internal things. But there is a difference between being aware and experiencing things.
Awareness is the knowledge that just takes your imagination and your moment of thoughts but experience takes you, your physic and spirit and thoughts.
We shouldn't be confused with awareness and experience. They are totally different. And both are important.
Awareness kindle the light within us and experience comes after executing on the things that we're aware about.