Bumbai You Learn

Today we discuss lifelong learning and what it means to us. With the advent of technology there are many ways to explore our interests from using youtube, chatGPT, audiobooks and podcasts. The barrier to entry to exploring our curiousites have never been lower. Some of the benefits we believe that come with being a lifelong learner are: Confidence Curiosity Open minded Success Adaptability Ultimately I believe that being a lifelong learning is taking the initiative to take your curiosity to the next level.

When we set a goal we want it to be SMART: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely What is our target in what phase of life? What do we want? How to define our target? Career Personal Financial What is the timeline? Your own timeline not anyone else Multiple goals Sacrifice What do you want in life? Joyce - putting a 6-12 month time frame on her goals Goal Categories Finance Health and wellness Family Growth Fun Habits Malai - Mission Statement: To be an impactful leader who inspires other, and myself to achieve great things. And to be a loving supportive mother to my family. Craig - Abundance of opportunity - why not take the chance to do something and explore the ideas/experiences. The pursuit of excellence in what I have chosen to do Goal Categories Financial Family Fitness Interpersonal Growth Habits as a goal - having good habits Sub goals within the goals Minimum effort to reach our future goals. Mike - Worldy Goals Spiritual Goals

What is hedonism? hedonism bot - Futurama - the pursuit/indulgence in pleasure. These desires and emotions drive our behavior - maximize pleasure, minimize pain where does it come from? cultural/environmental (extrinsic) vs intrinsic Why are we talking about it: The hedonic treadmill is a psychological theory that suggests that humans have a tendency to return to a relatively stable level of happiness or subjective wellbeing, despite changes in their circumstances or external conditions. I was wondering would we be able to reframe it for positivity? What is the principle of neuroplasticity The term “neuroplasticity” (or “brain plasticity”) refers to the ability of our brains to reorganize, both physically and functionally, throughout our lives, due to our environment. Some quotes in the show: Shaolin Monk - What is the meaning of life? Life is the result of the actions we take. “The way of Dao is simple stop striving, defeat desire, in absence of striving there is peace. In absence of desire there is satisfaction.” Tao te jing - Lao Tzu Philip Zimbardo - The Stanford Prison Experiment There have been controversy around this experiment. "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” - Freidrich Neitzsche It is commonly attributed to Viktor Frankl in his book “A Man’s Search for Meaning.” Where having a why gave the prisoners of war a reason to live, where as others who did not tended to lose their lives.

Bodhizfa IPA - Bodhisattva is one who has not reach enlightenment. Spiritual enlightenment sponsored by Georgetown brewing. Calculated risks - action or strategy that is pursued after considerations of risks involved Mitigating risks to achieve the outcomes you want. Going through the cycles of failure to learn and understand the risks involved to learn and progress. Taking more time to make a decision gives us the chance to give more thought to the action. Risk Tolerance - I didn't really think of this as risk taking but Justin helped frame this really well. Our immigrant parents coming to America to provide for us and family back home is huge risk taking and a high level of risk tolerance. They made it to give us the foundation of where we now are in our lives. Deliberate practice - recording and reviewing footage and seeing where and how we can improve.

Reflecting on actions and decisions made grants us the ability to make a choice. As we get better at recognizing the triggers and reactions we have, we can make better choice and focus our energy into growing. I cringe at the first story I share. But it isn't all bad. It helped me to find fuel me to be better. We discuss often times we find that an emotional trigger is what starts us down the path of questioning ourselves and decisions we made or didn't make. Whatever action or inaction we take next is ultimately our choice. Having a moment a time to reflect can help bring a mirror to ourselves and have us question why and what are we doing. Correction, it was a Soviet Naval officer, Vasili Arkhipov who is known for preventing a Soviet nuclear torpedo launch during the Cuban missile crisis. Which ultimately people have speculated that he prevent the start of another world war and potentially a nuclear war. Ultimately we ask these two questions: Why is reflection important? How do you apply it to your practice of growth? Mike: Reflection gives us a choice. Pain is a common trigger - conditioning to think and reflect on what could be wrong here? Craig: Reflection is triggered by a feeling of emotion. Trying to understand what caused that emotion, peel back the layers to understand the core of the decision. Being honest with your emotions and yourself. Create some time in the week, reflect on how it went. Are you moving the direction you want to go?

On this episode of the pod, I discuss with Ellison and Larry the idea of the locus of control. We discuss our perspectives on the locus of control, how our belief on the direction of our lives were affected internally or externally. And how it is more of a balance as both internal and external factors can be true. Locus of control refers to the degree to which an individual feels a sense of agency in regard to his or her life. A person with an internal locus of control will believe that the things that happen to them are influenced by their actions. Vs a person with an external locus of control who will tend to feel that their life was driven by external factors like random chance, environment or by other people.

Inspiration - The excitement of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Today’s podcast, we recorded in late March with Josh before he left for Australia. We discuss Josh’s vision for a series, what inspired him to get started with creating the movies, having ideas and continuing to evolve them. We briefly touch on the idea of purposely failing, and the fear of putting ourselves out there. Josh’s process includes - Inspiration, Creativity, Innovation He had to learn how to actually work through the process to get into the film industry. The longest piece to making things happen was simply moving the pieces into place to start Uceon Studios. He believes inspiration does not come unless you have a low point in life. The low point being the catalyst in life. Everyone’s pain is different but it provides a catalyst. Josh’s catalyst spurred him to focus his energy in the right direction. The suck (the catalyst), embracing the suck, realizing what you still have, and realizing what is actually important, and start building from there. If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support. Call or text 988 Connect with a trained crisis counselor. 988 is confidential, free, and available 24/7/365.

On this episode of the podcast, we actually wanted to show an example of failure. How we used the time to speak constructively and challenge each other to be more prepared for the next episode. Remember by the definition of failure is the condition or fact of not achieving the desired end result or goal. We share some thoughts behind the scenes and run with it since we had the time to record anyway. Enjoy!

In today's episode we discuss failure and how we've learned from it. Perspective is really the difference in viewing failure as truly failure, emotions tied to it or whether some good came from that experience of failure and learned a lesson from the experience. We played with ChatGPT for our intro, shared some stories of failure. When we focus on our systems, and focusing on being better failure becomes an expected part of the process. Failure is defined by: 1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends. 2. The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short. Mike added, the attachment of emotion, regret, that makes failure sting. Failure can be used as a guidance and correction system which we can learn from. Fun facts: One strand of DNA can store 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes). More than what I remembered!

On this pod one of my closest friends joins me on the pod to talk about self-care. Join us as we explore our thoughts on self-care as we've grown over time. We'll cover the following: What is self-care? When did we learn about self-care? What are the different types of self-care? Physical Emotional Social Intellectual Spiritual Is self-care selfish? (It's not!) Alone time is necessary to invest back into yourself Who are we? Learning to unlearn and relearn Follow Derrick at: IG: @hiderrick_ YT: @derrick_monis

Today we have a guest, Tracy, we shared and talk about comfort and pushing the comfort zone. We talked about how the range of experience that we have gives us the confidence, and helps create comfort in other areas of our life. Routines, while boring, provides structure and comfort. Scrum project management - Empiricism means working in a fact-based, experience-based, and evidence-based manner. Scrum implements an empirical process where progress is based on observations of reality, not fictitious plans. Scrum also places great emphasis on mind-set and cultural shift to achieve business and organizational Agility. Recommended reading The obstacle is the way - Ryan Holiday The Goal - Dr. Eliyuahu Goldratt Memes and pictures Rubik's Cube meme - We figure it out eventually Stress and Anxiety Curve - Sourced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law

Definition: Catalyst  1: a  substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually  faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature)  than otherwise possible 2: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action Mike's Types and tipping points  Curiosity  Social interaction/validation Personal desire/achievement  Survival Craig's Types: Pain Desire/wants Inspiration Paradox of Choice - an observation that having many options to choose from, rather  than making people happy and ensuring they get what they want, can cause  them stress and problematize decision-making. Schrodinger's Choices (something we just made up) - in quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is  unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a  random subatomic event that may or may not occur. All choices exist until you make a choice. 

Mike's Growth Process: 1. Motivating factor to spark the pursuit 2. Study, make a plan, grind it 3. Failure, recover from failure  4. Reflect on it, research  5. Re-calibrate the plan, adjust to fix the failures experienced  6. Go back to the grind  7. Rinse and repeat to achieve the level of competency  Craig's Growth Process 1. Catalyst for growth 2. Taking action to do something  3. Reflect on actions taken and deliberate practice focused on the intended direction of growth  4. Kaizen - 1% better, continuous improvement based on small positive changes 

Practitioner Definition: a person actively engaged in an art, discipline, or profession, especially medicine. -  "patients are treated by skilled practitioners"  Show Notes: Action > Reaction   Action - Motivation - Purpose  Past - Reflecting  Future - Planning  Current Moment - Being present  Abundance vs. Scarcity   Fun/Motivation - Pain/loss as factors to growth then making a decision leads to how we get shit done  Why Not? 

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