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

How do you deal with getting ghosted in PhD interviews? I help you deal with getting ghosted, and prevent you from getting ghosted in the future but you doing a little bit of work out front. The other thing then I want to remind you of is that getting ghosted it’s a strong signal that you probably don’t wanna work with him anyways in the future.

Let's focus on the positive traits of each generation. The younger generation values empathy and equality, while the older generation values hard work and respect. Both of these traits add value to our society. Instead of labeling one generation as lazy or out of touch, let's learn from each other and embrace the positive qualities that each generation brings to the table. By emphasizing the stren...

why do you moments of great time disappear? There’s many times in history where there is a renaissance of ideas, both within regions and within companies. The problem is is that these moments are fleeting Why do they actually disappear? I talk about this in this podcast.

Get in the practice of giving openly. What you don’t realize is that giving is often at the heart of growing influence, whether it is in the real world or elite online world. Getting in the practice of being OK with giving and receiving nothing in return helps you to grow as a person.

Do we actually need to have #strategies? I wonder if you simply just have to keep moving, and keep trying every day. It might be more worthwhile to focus on #behavior and continuing to get people to “try,” rather than get them to focus on getting the strategy right from the get go. In my view, if you focus on moving and behavior, you can #learn the strategy along the way that best fits the environ...

How to process and think about disasters that you see. The challenge is to know what you should do in response. I think any possible response in terms of the way that you choose is probably the appropriate response at the time. Each person deals with disasters in their own separate way, and processes them in their own way of dealing with it. While I think, sometimes it appears upsetting from the o...

Whether you eat lobsters or spaghetti dinners has a little impact on your life. For me, mostly as long as I get to hang out with family and friends, and get to do the small things that I enjoy, such as walking and watching Seinfeld every day, I am perfectly happy no matter how much success or failure that I experience. How you define yourself is not necessarily based on the outcomes that outsiders...

Many people misunderstand the tenure process and believe it is a job for life. It is far from the idea that it’s a job for life. The tenure process is more of a celebration that you’ve put in the work and you’re getting recognition for the work that you’ve actually done. It’s a forecast for the future that you will continue to put in the work.

Purchasing decisions are a critical part of our daily lives, and we often base them on things like status and recognition. However, an alternative approach to making these decisions is to focus on minimizing the amount of failure that a product is likely to experience. This way, we can ensure that we make informed decisions that lead to fewer problems in our lives. When considering the failure rat...

The only thing that matters is doing incremental, slow, and boring work. You don’t get fast returns in anything, and you should be a little afraid of anything that gets fast returns. If you’re paying attention to other people’s success, and they were able to get fast returns at some thing, you likely should be wary about the possibility of actually getting those returns. If you’re expected to get...

much of human progress is about doing incremental, boring work repeatedly. If we think about all of the major human accomplishments, that we know of today, they almost always were about doing some thing that seemed impossible, and involved incremental boring work for extended periods of time.

practice stoicism in your career by removing the outside world. You just trying to be yourself, no matter what the outside world thinks of you. Moreover, practice stoicism, so that you cannot worry about moving up or getting to someplace. The more that we are living our modest lives, the more we need to realize that much of what happens around us doesn’t matter.

integrity and doing your best every day matters. Just repeat to do your best. A lot of days does not feel like that but that’s the only option that we actually have that wins out in the long run.

Focus on #helping one person, even if it's just yourself. Don't aim for a big impact. This is just dumb. Who cares about you anyway? Your mom and partner, at best. Instead, aim for meaningful impact for one individual. On average, we don't affect many people in a day, so don't expect to be different. If you do an unbelievable amount of work, and you make a difference in just one person's life, it...

our favorite burger joint in Tallahassee is vertical burger. It’s bougie, yet not overwhelming. It has the absolute best burgers and fries that are homemade. My favorite is the vertical burger with vertigo sauce.

Most of us manage daily life with a limited understanding of the world around us. Even experts in a certain field only have a general knowledge in other areas. This highlights the fact that we don't need to know everything and that it would be unrealistic to do so. What's crucial is that the system in place enables us to function efficiently without a complete understanding of how it operates. It'...

Always have more patience. be able to put in the work every day, even when distance, feel like you’re getting anywhere. The goal is not to make progress today, but to make progress over decades. This is fundamentally different. How do you understand formants and success has little to do with the sort of long term behavior. you need to manage the ability to get up and love who you are every day.

train yourself to always look for opportunities and be positive with those opportunities. The only way that you see opportunities is if you believe you actually can. This means that you’re going to do stuff that nobody else is willing to do.

and become so used to filing the I told you so in my head has become a ritual. People will cramp on me for any number of reasons, and I get to file it away. I told you so. I’ll come back and I’ll realize wait a minute he was right I should be treating myself with dignity and respect, I should’ve been investing, I should have been helping out other people, and I will come back, and I will say I tol...

The physical world around us is simply just an artifact of a random idea that somebody tripped up. We define our world based on the physical things, but the real issue in how we define our world are the simple ideas. He’s ideas are often somewhat minor when they start out, but they turn into very big ideas that matter in constructor world. We can create a world in which season ideas have a positiv...

I think we need to start with the idea that everybody is different. How we grow as individuals, organizations, and societies is to recognize that everybody is different.

Learn uncomfortable things. Often you grow as a person when you learn things that you think are irrelevant, or made you feel uncomfortable at the time. You might feel many positive emotions when you learn,but you also often feel very negative emotions. Exploring those topics that lead to those negative emotions often will result in significant development. Topics that question the status quo are g...

deciding what you should work on, is often more challenging and deciding to actually work. There’s never quite a clear answer in what is the best possible course of action.

I talk about the importance of personal financial management, and how this matters in the long run. It seems when you’re doing it in the short run to be nothing other than a simple cost. However, in the long run it almost always pays out. What you need to do is focus on reducing, your household costs and expenditures, and focus on increasing your salaries and wages as much as he possibly can. As y...

is it the role or the person that is leading to the behavior? Many of us are in different roles in society, and when we see certain behaviors, we often attribute those behaviors to the person. However, we often forget that these people are doing in their truck job. or simply just playing the part of the rule. I struggled with thinking about how much it is actually the person versus the rule. If we...