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

Everyone has a tremendous amount of human #potential. If you pursue something that you’ve always wanted to pursue, you’ll never be bored. Since I have start at the #R3ciprocity project, I’ve never felt more excited. I am never bored. There’s always more to do. One of the biggest mistakes that I ever did is listen to the idea that we need to specialize. What a load of horse crap. Don’t listen to th...

The amount of human potential that we all have if we contributed 100% every day is staggering. Most people choose to sit back and let the world happen to them. If you choose to be an active participant in your own life, and we compounded that across all people, we would solve most of world’s problems. Get some gumption today. Make an effort. The world is passing you by.

I don’t quite understand why people are so upset about cleaner energy. To me, it seems like something that’s rather boring and really doesn’t affect much of our lives. When we make the transition to cleaner energy, nobody’s even going to know we made the transition to cleaner energy. It will just simply be cleaner. It’s not like when I plug into the wall that I know about all of the energy product...

Pay off your student loans as quickly as you possibly can. It’s not only financially and Terra by ID and I have a student loans for a long time, but it also always on you emotionally. When you have a student loans it makes you feel like you’re not doing a good job. Why not take steps to remove that stress from your life?

You have to remember that how are you perceiving failure depends on the metrics that you’re actually using. You also have to focus on the fact that you’re doing it and nobody else is. You do the best of your ability with the resources that you have and repeat.

Nobody is taking from you in the long run. In the short run, of course they take from you and of course they are taking advantage of you. However, in the long run the world is constantly growing. You have a lot of opportunities that you can access that far outweigh those petty actions. How do you actually get access to opportunities? You have more opportunities when you are kind. You can access to...

Every idea seems simple upfront. In my experience, writing an idea start out as a simple task. you believe it’s gonna occur in a short period of time. When you go to actually write the idea you discover it’s far more complicated than you thought. You can blame this on naivety or hubris, But often you don’t understand the complexity of a situation until you actually are in it. On the reverse side,...

70% of the time you’re not going to feel like actually doing any work today. That is normal. You simply have to just keep getting up, knowing that you don’t feel like doing it. You do it anyways. If you don’t put in the work, who else is going to do it for you?

It is important to take a step back and live your life. It’s not about the credit that you get or any fanfare, it’s about just living your life no matter what is going on. If you are getting recognition, you have to acknowledge that there is very little reason for it. If you don’t get recognition, you have to walk forward and live your simple life. We all live simple lives. Have just simple moment...

We need to be cognizant of conflict of interest that might occur in our decisions. issues of conflict of interest or not just limited to science and medicine. In almost all of our choices, we are thinking about other things that may conflict with the choice we might make. we might be thinking about family choices, or other issues that we don’t disclose. Where we have to really be concerned is when...

if you see a problem, there’s more than you that thing is the problem. Remembering that everybody else sees the problem too, but they’re unable or unlikely to pursue the solution. You’re the only one that’s going to actually stand up and do it. Get out there and actually pursue it.

Doing things that are important in your life require you to be humble and admit when you’re wrong. The problem is is that you also have to be assertive and keep going forward even though people are picking apart all of the things that are wrong with your idea and who you are. Negativity has more influence in your decisions that positive comments. Your goal is to be like a slippery snake where are...

Everything I have learned about #strategy seems wrong. To me, planning and thinking about the future really does not fit very well with the story of my life and most people that I know. I don’t know anyone who sits down and has meetings about their future. I don’t know anybody that sits down and drafts a mission statement every decade. The story that works the best is the story about just getting...

People that are not nice exist in this world. You need to realize that those people don’t care anyways. You need to simply keep walking forward and living a happy and healthy life despite the things that happen in your world. Your goal is to have the confidence to be happy and healthy no matter if people are sucking the life out of you. Doesn’t matter whether this is in academia or in the business...

You know it’s right. Why are you letting other people push you around, despite the fact that you know it’s right? Stay true to what you believe is right. Let the rest of the world come to see that what you’re doing is right. If they never recognize and see what you’re doing, screw ‘em. They were never going to be supportive in the first place. You have to have the fortitude to do what’s right and...

Imagine as if you worked at Disney and your job is to make everybody else feel special and that they matter. People that work at Disney feel the same grind as you do, but it’s their goal to make everybody else feel a magical experience. Why can’t you do the same? Why can’t you trick your mind that you are making the world magical? Why not imagine that it’s your goal to make your own life a magical...

In order to mitigate downside risk and take advantage of upside potential, look at how you can diversify across all aspects of your life. This might require you to do things that are unusual and don’t fit within the norm. Normal people don’t think about the future. However, to make sure that you take advantage of all possible routes in the future when things change, look to see it how you can dive...

When you have a partner, it is important to slow things down to do well. Take your time to have many conversations before you make any large purchases in your life. Have conversations that are awkward and that you don’t like having. The more conversations that you have the more likely you’re going to figure out what to do next.

Start telling your story online. You have access to opportunities that nobody else has ever had until the last decade. Leverage the most important tool that has occurred since the Gutenbergprinting press. Most of us don’t realize it, but we are living through one of the most revolutionary moments in history. We are living through a moment in time where content production is becoming democratized....

We often think that we have to make large #investments in one shot. We need to buy a #house, purchase a car, or change jobs. In #business, you may launch a product, buy another company, or build a plant. However, this often involves a tremendous amount of uncertainty, and these investments might be difficult to recoup because of the transaction costs involved in these large purchases. Many of thes...

Encourage you to get more sleep on a daily basis. Don’t feel guilty if you need that sleep.

The number of people that are selling your garbage online is extremely high. Watch out for people that are selling you some get rich quick scheme. Your goal is to do the slow grind with things that are tried and true. Nothing is going to get you there quick. The secret is to do the slow grind and put in the work every day. Increase the revenue that’s coming into your house by doing more work, and...

social convention often keeps you from doing good things in your life. We often think that we can’t do something because it is what the norms are in our contacts. Who says that we can’t live very austerely such as living in a tent? Why is it socially acceptable to not live in a car? There’s many different things in our life that we do simply because it’s convention. Once we start realizing that it...

New product of element just requires trial and error. However, the key is doing a trial and error over a very long time. Nobody is going to be willing to put in the effort in this new product development, and less you have an unbelievable desire to change the world.

The most important thing that you’ll learn as we grow older is that slow and steady gains are the only thing that really stick. Follow that learning curve over time to improve.