Comments on: Don’t Drop the Baby

By: joe

joe — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:52:16 +0000

You are welcome Betsy (Betsy by the way is one of the people mentioned in the article on Hidden Mickeys).

10,000 hours is roughly a little over 4 years of going to work 5 days a week for eight hours doing the same thing without a vacation. Sounds kind of like a Dilbert strip.

Good luck on the Master’s program. It looks exciting.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:47:11 +0000

Great point about inspirations, Sue. I’ve never really felt compelled in my life to be the best at anything it always seems that there is significant diminishing marginal utility very early on – but I have this constant desire to be better tomorrow than I was yesterday in nearly everything.

It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from As Good As it Gets when Jack Nicholson says to Helen Hunt “You make me want to be a better man.”

By: joe

joe — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:37:04 +0000

Jason – have you tried the device?
One of my favorite new devices is this rather expensive feedback gear you can wear to help you to master sleeping. Never used it, but if there is something I think we would all love to mast it would be sleeping.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:34:31 +0000

Amen Chris!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:17:43 +0000

I am planning for my master’s degree and was overwhelmed by a mere 33 hours of study to complete my degree… 10,000, in comparision, makes the program seem really manageable. Thanks Joe for always putting things into perspective.