R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

When you believe that other people are talking behind your back, you have to take a step back and realize that everybody is self interested in there likely not even thinking about you at any given time. That’s where you have to accept yourself and work on yourself more than you have to worry about other people.

is there a singular best answer to business success, and question and think about our world in the sense of a puristic world that is constantly changing. I question whether business success and the concept of business success actually makes sense in this world.

Are you helping too much in your organization? Does it feel like you’re getting penalized for doing what you believe is right? I think it is important to talk about the absurdity of that, and think about how you can stay true to yourself, despite the system that may not recognize it. I help you think about how it’s absurd to get penalized for being helpful.

I talk about the financial returns of podcasting or anything else in life. It’s often that you don’t get a one-to-one conversion in terms of the effort that you put in and the outcomes you actually get. I think and talk about how you just do it because it’s your thing to do.

Learning how to say, it’s not my problem or good luck to you isn’t important, skill set. Learning how to say good luck to you is a recognition of the boundaries that you have with your influence. It’s recognition that sometimes you don’t have as much control as you think you do. Understanding that sometimes people need to have lessons that they learn themselves is an important part of growing up.

Do we really have a choice, I think out loud about whether we actually have choices in life and then give you some ways to think about the fact that we may not have a lot of choice with what happens.

Much of our life has now being distilled down to numbers and metrics. #Academics are measured by often a single number. You often can’t change the numbers. That number is often just reflection of the social subsystem that you’re part of. It’s very hard to change your life once you’ve lived it. Much of who we are is already been predetermined. Besides, do you want to be a different you? Aren’t you...

Despite encountering actions from individuals with less than honorable intentions and those who spread #negativity, it's important to recognize that the world has improved significantly over the decades. While there have been some worrisome trends in recent years, we should focus on the long-term trajectory. Two centuries ago, most of us would not have survived, facing famine, pain, and suffering...

Should investors care about who they actually give their monies to? The answer is that if you’re worried about your individual portfolio firms, you’re likely not diversified enough. You likely need to diversify more broadly so that you don’t care about individual firms or assets.

My faith in the scientific review process of generating results that are meaningful is actually very low. I talk about what this actually means and what we can do about this.

Being able to detach is an important skillset. This includes being independent of most things that we can grow dependencies on, such as money, relationships, and even social media. Allowing yourself to decouple from anything so that you don’t have a want or you’re not dependent on anything allows you to grow as a person. It allows you to know that you can start from the beginning again, and everyt...

The longer I’ve been in the profession as a researcher, the more I realize that how I conduct myself in terms of being a passivist or submissive, the more likely you’re going to get taken advantage of. Style that I’m learning is to simply state the facts and let the fact speak for themselves. I’m trying to remove my tendency to be submissive as much communication as possible. I realize this part o...

We talk about academic life, what it means to be a creative, and how are you fit in when you feel like you never fit in. We talk about the courage it takes to do creative endeavors, an internal strength to tell the world you’re doing something that is completely different and perhaps can be upsetting. We touch upon the importance of having a sense of humor and playfulness when you are working on h...

Just as long as you’re working at it, I think that’s all that really matters. Most people will rather sit on the sidelines and think about how the perfect play would exist, rather than try to get out there, and realize that there’s no “perfect play.” When you’re trying, you will never feel like you’re doing things right. There is no perfect way. You’ll always feel that you’re a mess. But, you have...

Make it happen. Doing large projects requires a conscious effort, and the only way that you can accomplish things is just to make it happen. I don’t know any other way. I often think that the scientific literature is just wrong because it is not talking about the average person. The average person doesn’t have the resources that is often talked about in the scientific literature. You don’t have ac...

Almost all of the self-help and financial management pop-culture books, and even the academic literature, assumes people are far more motivated than what they truly are. Rather than focusing on the top performers, in my view, we should be focusing on the bottom, which is a far larger percentage of the population. It will also move the needle a lot more. How do we get people excited? How do we tack...

I talk about a new feature that we are building into the R3ciprocity platform that will hopefully aid people in their classrooms and as well as conference organizing.

we need to be careful not to use external characteristics that are easy to observe, and use characteristics that are much more deeper and more align with what we are actually trying to seek. Age doesn’t necessarily mean, wisdom, and use doesn’t necessarily mean beauty. We need to understand, what it is that we are actually striving for.

You get up and you do it anyways. No matter how it feels and what you’re going through, you put in the work to actually get to where you’re going to go. Nobody feels like they want to actually do it and there’s no reason for why you actually do it, but you do it because you know it is good for yourself and for the world. Why is it good? You don’t know. Just get up and do it anyways.

The performance mindset, that many of us abide by often results in a great deal of negative emotion. The one thing that I can recommend is to take a step back and feel how fortunate that we actually are at this given moment. Practice do not focus on performance, and focus on what it means to be a fortunate human being today.

Once you deconstruct what most people do on a daily basis, you realize that there is a lot of humanity across all of us. What does it mean to be successful? Really, nothing. You are projecting and playing success. The actions that a CEO will take are often very similar to somebody else in an organization. You get up, brush your teeth, have some breakfast, you go off to work, and then you come home...

How do you fix the competitive culture in academia? How do you ensure that people don’t get lost and they feel rewarded? The only way that I know is to build selflessness into the culture.

How do you build long-term wealth? It’s a scammy question. You are right. But, if you cared about doing it right, this did not make you click and read this far. The psychology and behavior of building long-term wealth is much different than building it in the short-term. It requires you to think about how do I actually live a good life for a long time. This is much more realistic than any clickbai...

A great deal of dealing with rejection is not to let the arbitrariness of it affect you. The only way that I know how to deal with this arbitrariness is to disassociate. These outcomes have nothing to do with your identity. View what you’re doing is simply a job, and these outcomes are not your identity. Internalizing outcomes as who you are, whether it be publications, grants, and sales made, wil...

Is prestige status in the academic job market harmful? The harm might come from generalizing too much from these very poor indicators, and instead not taking a rich understanding of the people and resources that you are generalizing about.