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The study came up with four metrics that matter most: 1.HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2.ACHIEVEMENT:… - Eric Barker
" "The study came up with four metrics that matter most: 1.HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2.ACHIEVEMENT: achieving accomplishments that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for 3.SIGNIFICANCE: having a positive impact on people you care about 4.LEGACY: establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success They also came up with a simple way to interpret the feelings these four need to provide in your life: 1.HAPPINESS = ENJOYING 2.ACHIEVEMENT = WINNING 3.SIGNIFICANCE = COUNTING (TO OTHERS) 4.LEGACY = EXTENDING
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1.HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2.ACHIEVEMENT: achieving accomplishments that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for 3.SIGNIFICANCE: having a positive impact on people you care about 4.LEGACY: establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success
The study came up with four metrics that matter most: 1.HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2.ACHIEVEMENT: achieving accomplishments that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for 3.SIGNIFICANCE: having a positive impact on people you care about 4.LEGACY: establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success
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Malcolm Gladwell popularized K. Anders Ericsson’s research showing that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of effort to become an expert at something. There is a natural reaction to so big a number: Why in the world would anyone do that? With the idea framed by the term “expertise,” we are quick to associate positive notions, like “dedication” and “passion,” but there’s little doubt that spending so much time and hard work on anything nonessential has an element of obsession to it. While the valedictorian treats school as a job, working hard to get A’s and follow the rules, the obsessed creative succeeds by bearing down on his or her passion projects with a religious zeal.
If you want to do well in school and you’re passionate about math, you need to stop working on it to make sure you get an A in history too. This generalist approach doesn’t lead to expertise. Yet eventually we almost all go on to careers in which one skill is highly rewarded and other skills aren’t that important. Ironically, Arnold found that intellectual students
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