O Steve Jobs do século 19

Hoje fomos conhecer a casa e o laboratório de Thomas Edison, o famoso inventor.

Para quem gosta de história é um prato cheio.

Edison escolheu a cidade de West Orange, em Nova Jersey, perto de Nova York, para construir seu laboratório no final do século 19. Ficou lá por mais de 40 anos, até sua morte em 1931.

Hoje tudo isso é um parque nacional que pertence ao governo dos Estados Unidos. Por apenas US$ 10 dólares você pode visitar a fábrica, os laboratórios de Edison e sua mansão bela mansão vermelha.

É uma visita cheia de surpresas. Carros elétricos da garagem (2 modelos da década de 1910), o primeiro estúdio de cinema que existiu (notem o galpão preto abaixo), o escritório que ficava dentro da biblioteca e uma cama para tirar a soneca da tarde.

Edison trabalhava uma média de 100 horas por semana. Ao longo de sua vida, acumulou mais de 1000 patentes, um número absurdo até para os dias atuais.

Além da famosa invenção da lâmpada, Edison e sua equipe criaram uma série de equipamentos para gravar e reproduzir o som, câmeras de cinema, equipamentos de raio X, técnicas para fabricar cimento, borracha sintética e muito mais.

Acho que definir Thomas Edison como Steve Jobs do século 19 e início do século 20 talvez seja até pouco.

Quanto conforto temos hoje em dia... Tanta tecnologia a nossa disposição para criar, graças a gênios como ele. Que possamos fazer bom proveito da internet, dos meios de comunicação e transporte, para continuar criando um mundo melhor.

E sobre as 100 horas de trabalho por semana? Inaceitável neste mundo do politicamente correto em que vivemos. Mas será que o trabalho é trabalho quando você ama o que faz?

Por que você não está conseguindo a sonhada promoção?

Se suas atitudes não estão trazendo os resultados que você espera, o que você faz?

80-90% das pessoas que conheci começam a criticar os outros, o mundo. "Se agindo do meu jeito, não consigo os resultados que eu quero, a culpa é do sistema, não minha."

O resto das pessoas reflete e geralmente após algum momento de crise, decide mudar as atitudes. "Talvez com novas atitudes, eu consiga aquela tão desejada promoção (ou qualquer objetivo que seja)."

Será?

Se realmente queremos MUDAR a nós mesmos ou MUDAR um país, uma cidade, uma empresa, escola, família (ou qualquer outra organização), mudar apenas nossas atitudes não é o suficiente...

Precisamos entender e mudar nossas necessidades e crenças para ter atitudes e resultados diferentes.

Saiba por quê e como mudar suas crenças no meu curso online "Mude suas Crenças Limitantes". 

A aula 5 está no ar e fala do quanto nossas crenças afetam nossos resultados e relacionamentos.

Está na hora de rever suas crenças limitantes

Este post utiliza como base teórica o livro "Liminal Thinking", um dos melhores que li nos últimos anos. Acesse aqui para um comentário mais detalhado sobre este livro.

O livro nos guia numa jornada para desafiar nossas crenças sobre quem somos e sobre como é o mundo ao nosso redor. Quem já fez terapia (principalmente terapia cognitiva) irá se identificar muito com esta publicação.

Ao longo da nossa vida vamos cristalizando algumas crenças que limitam nosso potencial individual e coletivo.

"Não terei sucesso na minha carreira"

"O Brasil nunca dará certo"


Eis dois exemplos de crenças limitantes. A primeira no nível individual e a segunda no nível coletivo.

Como o autor Dave Gray demonstra no livro "Liminal Thinking", há uma grande chance de que muitas das nossas crenças estejam erradas. Isso por que as crenças são formadas a partir de nossas experiências com a realidade e das teorias e julgamentos que fazemos sobre estas experiências.

Assim, a crença "não terei sucesso na minha carreira", pode ter surgido a partir de uma experiência pontual, por exemplo a pessoa foi demitida de seu primeiro emprego após trabalhar na empresa por apenas 6 meses.

Depois disso, a pessoa cria uma teoria para explicar por que foi demitido. Exemplo: "o mundo corporativo é político. Não são os melhores que sobrevivem. São os mais políticos. Como eu não sei fazer política, não terei sucesso em minha carreira."

Assim, a crença "não terei sucesso em minha carreira" está formada.

Uma vez consolidada, a tendência é que a pessoa utilize fatos pontuais que acontecerem no futuro para reforçar a crença. Assim, sempre que a pessoa tiver insucesso em novas tentativas profissionais, há o reforço: "tá vendo, nesta empresa é só política! Você não leva jeito para uma carreira corporativa!".

Não significa que todas as nossas crenças estão erradas...Mas não custa nada de tempos em tempos desafiar e revê-las. No caso desta história em particular, rever a crença pode fazer com a pessoa:

a. Entenda que nem todas as empresas são políticas. Há empresas em que o mais importante é a performance;

b. Desenvolva habilidades para ser mais política em algumas situações pontuais.


Transformar crenças limitantes em crenças em crenças saudáveis nos permite enxergar um novo mundo de oportunidades e a continuar a trilhar o caminho do desenvolvimento (individual e coletivo).

Filme do mês - Janeiro de 2017

Um belo documentário para começar 2017 com o pé direito :)

Será que estamos correndo atrás do objetivo errado?

Quantas e quantas vezes traçamos um objetivo único, uma visão, uma meta definitiva sobre nossa vida e ao alcança-la percebemos que não era isso que queríamos...

Sempre acreditei que a jornada é o que vale e não o pote de ouro no final do arco-íris. Mas reconheço que é muito fácil ser seduzido pelo "objetivo final que irá resolver todos os problemas".

Belas reflexões de Jonathan Fields sobre este tema.

Vision Fallacy: are you chasing the wrong thing?

www.jonathanfields.com

Everything great starts with a clear vision…

That’s what we’re told from a young age. Define your endpoint. Make a concrete goal. Know where you’re going before you begin. See it, taste it, smell it, feel it, hear it. This is your vision. Without it, you end up going nowhere. You are doomed to the land of spinning wheels and stuck-ness. Don’t get distracted. Don’t give in. Do not, under any circumstances, waiver from your vision. Just keep your head down. Your job is to outwork, out-grit, out-think and outrun everyone else. Until that vision becomes your reality.

Indeed, this is often what’s necessary to achieve something big. But, there’s a problem. More times than not, that vision is built upon false assumptions. We believe that achieving our vision will make us happier, more fulfilled, confident and content. It will give us a greater sense of power, prestige, respect, authority and connection. And, it may. But, all too often, I does not.

Having sacrificed mightily and endured days, months or even years of fierce labor, and pushing away anything and everything but the vision, we get exactly what we want—we achieve our grand vision—only to find ourselves saying, “huh, I don’t feel like I thought I would.” Then, with alarming frequency, we spiral into the abyss of dismay once we realize how much of our lives we gave up in the name of achieving something that was, in the end, an illusion.

So many times, we end up locking in an endpoint, working fiercely to get there, sacrificing relationships, health, time and a healthy serving of soul in the name of making our visions our reality, only to realize, we don’t actually want what we worked so hard to get once we get it. It doesn’t make us feel the way we thought and hoped it would. It doesn’t solve the problem we wanted solved, or deliver the delight we yearned to experience. Or, even if it does, for some reason, it still leaves us feeling empty, maybe even a little burned-out and numb, instead of full and alive.

I call this “Vision Collapse Syndrome.” I’ve been hit by it (sadly, more times than I care to admit). And, nearly every person I’ve known who strives to make manifest a life of accomplishment, impact and meaning has endured this same phenomenon.

So, how do we avoid Vision Collapse Syndrome?

How do we substantially increase the likelihood that the thing we’re working so hard to attain is actually the thing we’ll truly want, if and when we get it?

Instead of starting with a well-defined vision, end with it. Begin, instead, with values and vectors. Values are, very simply, an expression of what is most important to you. An example might be “family, financial security, love, honesty, service to others.” This is a great starting point, but values become far more actionable when you add a verb or action phrase that allows each value to actually guide your behavior. So, you might expand this list to:

"To be present and engaged in the lives of my partner and children, to earn enough to provide for the day-to-day needs of my family, to save for retirement and pay for the advanced education of my children, to act in a loving way when confronted with difficult situations, to be honest with myself and others with regard to big, critical decisions in life, and to serve families in need."

This statement makes your values actionable, because it is both more granular and it provides context. It also gives you a much better starting place for the creation of any vision. It allows you to better define a vision that reflects what it truly important to you, making it more likely that attaining the vision will actually give you what you want.

Still, there’s one more step, actually a series of steps, we might want to fold into the visioning process. Instead of defining where we want to go up front, what if we let our vision “emerge” out of the data we get from a series of shorter, more discrete experiments that let us test the validity and importance of our vision along the way?

What if we gave ourselves room to learn more, pivot and adapt and remain open to better or different visions along the way? What if we let action and information guide the creation of a vision, rather than often-wrong leaps of faith and assumptions? What if we allowed a trajectory, a validated vector begin to form that told us, “yes, this is it,” BEFORE defining the specifics and committing vast amounts of time and energy to the quest?

The power of an “emergent” vision…

When we create an “emergent vision,” when we allow the endpoint to emerge from a deeper exploration of values and validated vectors, we’re not only far more likely to attain that vision, we are also way more likely to feel the way we thought we’d feel when that vision becomes our reality.

This, by the way, is equally applicable for founders and entrepreneurs, where it’s not just about investing personal time and effort, but also allocating substantial amounts of money, resources and social currency. Before solidifying a granular vision for a venture, product, service or initiative, it is critical to map out your organization’s actionable values, hold lightly onto the general qualities of a vision, and allow the details to emerge out of experiments, information and vectors.

In life, in business, in relationships, the same rule holds true…

Don’t rush the vision.

Spend time on self-discovery and experimentation.

Values and vectors, first.

Then, allow the detailed vision to emerge in a more organic and aligned way.

Something to think about as we all get a bit reflective this time of year, and begin thinking about what we want to create in the year to come.

A atitude em relação à vida é o que conta

Sempre é mais fácil analisar o passado com o olhar do presente. 

Com o passar dos anos começamos a olhar para o passado e refletir sobre nossos acertos e os erros. 

Se eu tivesse escolhido uma outra carreira, como estaria agora?

E se tivesse aceitado aquela oferta de emprego?

Quais decisões acertadas tomei? 

Quais decisões eu mudaria se tivesse a experiência que tenho hoje?

Esta reflexão é muito importante para aprendermos com o passado e principalmente projetarmos nosso futuro.

De qualquer forma, erros e acertos nos caminhos que a vida nos apresenta são normais. Afinal, como o filósofo Mário Sérgio Cortella diz "não nascemos prontos".

O que mais importa não é tomar sempre a melhor decisão. Isso é impossível, pois vai na contramão da própria jornada da vida. Temos que cometer erros para que possamos aprender.

Se os erros virão quer a gente queira ou não, o mais fundamental reside em nossa atitude diante da vida. 

Há muitas pessoas no mundo com atitudes diferentes em relação à vida: 

Temos os otimistas, que olham sempre para frente, fazendo do limão uma limonada.

Temos as vítimas, que colocam sempre a culpa dos problemas e dificuldades no "sistema", na política, nos outros.

Temos aqueles que estão de bem com a vida, mesmo que vivendo com pouco.

Daria para contemplar algumas dezenas de pessoas com diferentes atitudes em relação à vida. Mesmo cada um de nós pode ter diferentes atitudes em diferentes momentos de nossa vida.

Podemos acertar ou errar em nossas decisões, mas se tivermos uma atitude construtiva em relação à vida, nossa chance de experimentar uma vida plena é bem maior.

Qual tem sido sua atitude em relação à vida?

O que está por trás do sucesso e do fracasso?

O que faz uma organização ou um indivíduo prosperar?

O que vale para o sucesso no curto prazo também sustenta o sucesso no longo prazo?

Por que algumas organizações morrem, mesmo após décadas sendo bem sucedidas?

Reflexões sobre Sucesso e Fracasso no meu canal no Youtube.

Você faz parte do culto do exagero?

Será que você faz parte do culto do exagero?

Veja se você se identifica:

• Você trabalha frequentemente mais de 40 horas por semana?
• Dorme frequentemente menos do que 6 horas por dia?
• Se sente culpado quando está longe do trabalho? Mesmo estando em seu tempo livre e na presença de amigos e familiares?

Revelador o depoimento de Jason Lengstorf. Ele trabalhava entre 70-90 horas por semana até que decidiu mudar.

The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join

Are our most valuable qualities being exploited at work? How our strengths get twisted into forming bad habits that — if we don’t change fast — just might kill us.

You didn’t mean to end up here. You didn’t even see it coming.

It all started with a chance to earn a living doing something you loved. Your dream job. Creating things instead of rotting in a cubicle. You weren’t just going to make a living — you were going to leave your mark on the world.

At first, you loved the work; it was challenging and fast-paced. Everyone around you was crazy smart.

You brainstormed in your off time. Took projects home with you. Put in extra hours on weekends. It never felt like overworking because it never felt like work.

You put in way more than 40 hours a week, but who was counting? This wasfun.

But weeks passed into months and somehow you ended up here: Working 60 hours a week minimum, usually more. You greet your coworkers, bleary-eyed, half-joking about needing coffee to survive.

The work is still fun, but you don’t feel the same passion anymore. Whole days slip by sometimes and you have no idea what happened; you certainly don’t have much to show for it.

Your goals outside of work are on hold. You’d love to find out if the Belgians have anything to be cocky about waffle-wise, but you don’t have time for a big trip right now. You know you need to get into an exercise routine, but something always comes up and you skip the gym.

“Later,” you promise yourself, “I’ll get around to it soon.”

You’re not exactly unhappy, but something’s off. You can’t put your finger on it. You’ve just always felt that there would be . . . more.

You’ve Been Absorbed

You’re no longer a free member of society. You’ve been lured into theOverkill Cult.
The Overkill Cult is a cultural delusion that working 60+ hours each week — at the expense of everything else in our lives — is not only a necessary part of success, but that doing so is somehow honorable.

The insidious thing about the Overkill Cult is that it masquerades as all the things we like most about ourselves: dedication, ambition, follow-through, responsibility.

It tells us to push harder, stay later, sleep when we’re dead. It tells us we’re never going to get ahead if we don’t show up first and go home last.

Cleverly, wickedly, the Overkill Cult persuades us to hang ourselves with our own strengths.

And if we don’t break free, we’re all going to die.

The Overkill Cult Will Kill You (Like It Tried to Kill Me)

Balance is the first thing to go once the Overkill Cult has us in its grasp.

For me, it started with my health. I skipped the gym — too busy, I thought. I didn’t have time to cook — too busy — so I ordered delivery.

My hobbies went next. Everything that wasn’t work fell away — too busy, too busy — until I was on the computer constantly, working. In 2012, I was working 70–90 hours a week.

After that, I lost my social life. Friends knew I wouldn’t show up — can’t; too busy — so they stopped calling. Some days my only human interaction was ordering coffee.

Then — and this, sadly, is where I finally realized there was a problem — I lost my beard.

The Canary in the Coal Mine, or How I Killed My Beard

At the end of 2012, I landed the biggest project of my career at that point: a Black Friday sales site for a Fortune 100 company.

I was thrilled and terrified. A project like this had the potential to move my company to the next level, and I decided to do whatever it took to make this project the best I’d ever built.

The designers had great ideas, and I sat with them to make sure they were possible on our timeline. We came up with a slick, modern idea built on cutting-edge technology. The client loved it.

Then bureaucracy came into play. The legal department made changes. Brand adherence contradicted legal. Design went over schedule. Way over schedule.

By the time the design was approved, I had a third of the time we’d scheduled. And — since this was a Black Friday site — we couldn’t push back the release date. It either launched on time or I was a failure. Period.

Not to be defeated, I powered through four straight days leading up to Black Friday, sleeping maybe six hours total. On Thanksgiving Day I skipped family get-togethers in favor of making the final push.

I was exhausted. Delirious. But, goddammit, I finished the project.



The client was thrilled. The site won a couple Addy Awards. I assume they made a metric fuckton in holiday sales.

Over the next few months, patches of my beard started to turn white. The whiskers became ultra-fine. Then they fell out altogether.

Shortly afterward, I lost my ability to grow a beard entirely — I was left with the unsavory choice between a clean-shaven “giant fat baby” look and a creepy mustache.

I had stressed myself out so badly that my body had forgotten how to grow a beard. And for what? So I could work 19-hour days and skip family holidays to meet crazy deadlines?

I was exhausted. My body was failing. I was overwhelmed and unhappy and isolated. I had a mustache, for chrissakes.

I had been guzzling the Overkill Cult’s Kool-Aid.

Something had to change.

How to Tell If You’re in a Cult

The telltale signs we’ve fallen prey to the Overkill Cult’s influence are subtle:
Frequently working more than 40 hours a week
Frequently sleeping less than 6 hours a night
Feeling guilty about any time away from work — even if that time is with family and friends

We don’t join overnight — this is death by a thousand cuts — and once we’ve joined, we’ll probably deny it.

But we’ve joined. By the thousands, we’ve joined.

The Lies of the Overkill Cult

The Overkill Cult’s siren song seems like a healthy sense of ambition. “We have to work hard to get ahead.” It’s something we’ve been told our entire lives.

We’re doing what we think is best for the future.

But the Overkill Cult doesn’t plan for survivors.

Though the symptoms of the Overkill Cult grow from good intentions, they’re short-sighted habits that ultimately do more harm than good.

Let’s look at each of the Overkill Cult’s telltale signs, and how each of them is a long-term detriment disguised as a healthy work ethic.

Frequently Working More than 40 Hours a Week

Long hours often feel mandatory — it’s just part of the culture. We think, “My boss/coworkers/cat will judge me if I’m not working the same long hours as everyone else. I’ll never get ahead if I don’t go above and beyond.”

This is just what it takes to make it, right?

Wrong. Incredibly, terribly, spectacularly wrong.

Research has proven over and over again that it’s not possible to be productive for more than 40 hours a week. At least not for sustained periods of time. Henry Ford introduced the 40-hour work week in 1914 because he saw — through research — that workers on five eight-hour shifts kept up the highest sustained levels of productivity.

Despite over 100 years of research supporting shorter work weeks, many companies still push for long hours, under the claims of a “sprint” or “crunch time” period.

The irony comes in when we look at productivity over time. After just two months of 60-hour weeks,productivity goes negativecompared to what a 40 hour week would have produced.

Did you catch that?

By working 150% of the hours, you accomplish less in the long run.

Frequently Sleeping Less than 6 Hours a Night

Somehow, sleeplessness has become a strange badge of honor. We swap “war stories” of sleeping two hours a night with an odd, martyred pride shining dimly in our bloodshot eyes.

I never sleep because sleep is the cousin of death, we murmur drowsily. So many projects, so little time.

But this belief that burning the midnight oil somehow gets us ahead is utterly, tragically wrong.

You’re the cognitive equivalent of a drunk driver after being awake for 18 hours. But the problem compounds: if you don’t get enough sleep, that level of impairment comes faster the next day. After a few days of too little sleep, you’re a drunken zombie.

We wouldn’t go to work drunk, so why the hell do we go to work on four hours’ sleep, when we’re more impaired than if we were hammered?

To make matters worse, sleeping less than six hours a night may lead to an early death. The Overkill Cult is literally killing you.

Feeling Guilty About Any Time Away from Work — Even Time with Family and Friends

When we’re in the clutches of the Overkill Cult, we feel a stab of guilt when we’re not working.

“I’d love to go to this holiday party, but I really shouldn’t; this project won’t finish itself.”

We fear that any time not spent working is wasted.

The irony is — yet again — science tells us exactly the opposite is true.

Overworking leads to higher stress levels and burnout, which have been linked to increased health risks.

Conversely, time away from work is proven to relieve stress and boost creativity, among numerous other benefits.

Besides, if we accept that the ideal is to sleep 8 hours a night and work 8 hours a day, that leaves us with 8 hours for non-work activities.

Taking time away from work gives us time to recharge. It puts distance between us and our projects, giving us time to remember why we like doing what we do.

Making Our Escape

We may have been duped into joining the Overkill Cult, but it’s not too late to escape.

We’ve been conned using our own best qualities to develop habits that — even though it seems like they’d make us better — make us worse at our jobs, less satisfied with our work, and less happy in our day-to-day lives.

Leveraging the same strengths the Overkill Cult exploits, we can break free of its clutches and take back our happiness and passion.

After my beard died, I felt the full weight of burnout. I was burnt to a fucking crisp. I realized I could either leave my career altogether, or make some fundamental changes to my lifestyle.

For what it’s worth, here are the promises I made to myself that helped me break away from the Overkill Cult.

I Work as Much as I Can — But Not More

Before anything else, I had to accept that it’s only possible to do 6–8 hours of quality work each day.

Trying to work longer hours will not make me more productive. In fact, working longer hours actually results in me getting less done as time drags on.

I chose the latter, and implemented some radical (to me) strategies for controlling my time. I cut from an average of 70–90 hours a week in 2013 to an average 38 hours per week over the last year.

I expected to see less professional success in favor of better overall balance in my life — a sacrifice I was willing to make — instead I saw betterproductivity at work: my turn-around times went down and I was more consistently hitting my deadlines.

I was floored at the time, but in retrospect I’m not surprised at all.

I Make Sleep a Top Priority

Getting enough sleep is beneficial on every level. Yet it was always the first thing I’d sacrifice when life got busy.

Too little sleep wreaks havoc on my ability to think clearly, and that hurts me at work in a big, bad way.

After I cut my hours down, I started sleeping without an alarm. Since I’m not working crazy hours, I close my computer by six or seven in the evening, and by eleven I’m usually in bed, where I read for a bit before falling asleep. I wake up naturally between seven and eight-thirty.

This has changed my life. No bullshit.

Waking up to an alarm before I’m fully rested starts the day in a groggy, stressful way. Waking up naturally after getting as much sleep as my body needs leaves me much happier to be awake, and far more ready to start my day.

I Dedicate a Reasonable Amount of Time to NOT Working

This was — and still is — the biggest challenge I faced in breaking away from the Overkill Cult. I love what I do, and I want to get my projects finished. It’s easy to rationalize working more hours and skipping activities that keep me from working.

But now I know that taking breaks makes me more productive: time away from work lets my passion and excitement for the work renew itself; taking my mind off of a project allows my subconscious to roll around abstract ideas that result in better solutions; breaks from the job lower my stress levels and boost my creativity.

So I make sure to take time off, even if my gut (incorrectly) tells me it’s a bad idea.

I take walks. I leave my phone in my pocket when I’m out with friends or eating my meals. I spend a fair amount of time on my hobbies, like writing and hunting for the world’s best cheeseburger.

I’m happier today than I can ever remember being in my life. I feel excited to work on my projects, to pursue my hobbies, and to spend time with people I love.

I’m excited to be alive.

Leaving the Overkill Cult Saved My Life

When my beard died in 2013, I feared it was only the first sign of an impending decline in my health that would ultimately kill me. It was a glimpse into my future, and I was terrified that if I didn’t change, I was in for a life of isolation, ulcers, alopecia, and an eventual heart attack or stress-induced brain tumor.

By changing my lifestyle, I was able to turn things around. After just a year of balancing my work with the rest of my life, my beard grew back. I lost 30 pounds because I was actually going outside and making it to the gym. I felt more awake, and I became more positive.

When I left the Overkill Cult, everything in my life improved. Not one single thing got worse.

Are You Ready to Make Your Escape?

If you’ve been sucked into the Overkill Cult, know that you’re not alone.

You may be facing cultural pressure to keep this crazy pace. You may be struggling with your identity as “a hard worker” and feeling that scaling back somehow makes you lazy or useless.

But I promise you — despite the doubts the Overkill Cult will force into your mind — there’s a better way. Better for your career. Better for your health. Better for your relationships. Better for your happiness.

You ended up in the Overkill Cult because you’re smart, ambitious, and dedicated. But you were misled by your good qualities and turned them into bad habits.

There’s a better way, and you’re smart enough to pull it off.
Dump the Kool-Aid in the sink. Take back your freedom. Find the happiness and success you were looking for when you started this career.

Close your computer. Go outside. And call your friends; they miss you.

What’s Next?

If you’re like me, you’d love to get away from the crazy hours and soul-sucking routines of the Overkill Cult, but you don’t feel like it’s possible.

I was wrong. I just had to trust myself to take the first step.

Don’t waste time like I did. You can leave the Overkill Cult today. I’ve put together a free step-by-step guide to show you how.

Qual progresso importa para você?

Algumas reflexões sobre progresso, tema do post anterior:

- Qual progresso é importante para você? De carreira, financeiro, familiar?

- Como você mede seu progresso em saúde, novos aprendizados, qualidade de vida?

- Que visão de progresso você tem "vendido" para seus amigos, familiares e colegas de trabalho?

- Se sua visão de progresso se realizar o mundo será mais ou menos sustentável?

- Quais progressos (não materiais) você fez nos últimos 5 anos? Você está se tornando alguém melhor? Tem orgulho do que é hoje?

- O que você aprendeu nos momentos em que fracassou, caiu, aparentemente não progrediu?

Sucesso e Felicidade

Algumas sábias palavras vindas de campos de concentração nazista...Em essência dizem:

Não busque o sucesso e a felicidade. Quanto mais você desejar e colocar sucesso e felicidade como metas na sua vida, mais irá se afastar do caminho.

Descubra seus talentos e os coloque a serviço dos outros.


Mantive o texto original em inglês para não perder nada na tradução.

"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long run, I say - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it."

Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

A sociedade Facebook

Estamos vivendo na sociedade do Facebook. 

Na rede todo mundo está sempre feliz, postando fotos de lugares maravilhosos que visitou recentemente, curtindo tudo e compartilhando comentários sobre sua vida pessoal quase todo dia.

Para quê toda essa fantasia?

Todo mundo é humano e tem seus altos e baixos. Estar 100% feliz e com a vida perfeita sempre é uma ilusão.

O Facebook e outras redes de relacionamento são incríveis. É muito bom reecontrar um amigo do colégio ou trocar um post com alguém que você acabou de conhecer.

No entanto, tenho a impressão que o lado ruim do Face está contaminando nossa sociedade. Esta “sociedade Facebook” é altamente egocêntrica. O importante é aparecer, ter fans e se comparar com os outros.

Se você não tivesse que agradar ninguém (eu disse NINGUÉM), você continuaria a trabalhar no mesmo emprego?

Continuaria a visitar os mesmos restaurantes? 

Vestiria as mesmas roupas?

Pense nisso e você verá o quanto estamos virando escravos da nossa própria imagem.

Se permita começar a decidir o rumo da sua vida sem se preocupar com o que os outros vão pensar. Acesse menos Facebook, poste menos fotos, permita-se um pouco mais de privacidade.

O que fazer quando perdemos tudo?

Transforme o que foi perdido em outro projeto...

Transforme o sofrimento em oportunidade.

O que é sucesso para você?

O Brasil está vivendo o maior boom de crescimento econômico dos últimos 30 anos. A cada ano as taxas de desemprego diminuem, a renda média do trabalhador e a renda das famílias aumenta, gerando novas oportunidades para construirmos um país melhor.

Neste momento em que há cada vez mais gente olhando para oportunidades de carreira, é fundamental fazer uma reflexão sobre o que é sucesso e como ele pode direcionar nossa felicidade no trabalho.

O que é sucesso para você?

Como medir se alguém é melhor do que o outro?

Como será o Mundo no dia em que nos dividirmos entre winners and loosers?

Avaliar sucesso dessa maneira é algo justo e ético?

Há maneiras mais saudáveis de avaliar nosso sucesso e o sucesso dos outros?

Creio que sim e o TED citado aponta diversos caminhos.