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Social Media and Deep work

In one of the recent interviews, a Doctor mentioned he won’t let his chIldren sulk in social media but rather would be comfortable of them having Johnie Walker or doing drugs here and then. Is social media really becoming that evil? Sure it makes you addictive. With all new algorithms, the social media companies are playing dirty tricks to your mind without you even realizing how much time you are spending on them and going for aimless wandering targets. Am not trying to be anti social here but if you want to be great at ‘deep work’, such as learning, aiming for promotion, running a business, transitioning to next phase of your career or life, you may need to give up social media. There’s power in actively selecting the trade-offs you want to make.

What it really takes to achieve anything?

To achieve anything in life, you need to earn for it each and every day.

-> Risk

-> Dedication

-> Focus

-> Goals

-> Persistence

-> Failure

-> Actions

-> Sacrifice

-> Study

-> Habits

-> Hard work

All of this comes before success in the Dictionary and in Life.

What’s your Fiscal behavior?

Any Business Leaders fiscal approach to business is determined by two basic drives:

1) Add value to products/services (inferred from Gross Margin)
2) Deploy Efficiency with deployed resources (inferred from indirect expenses)

Together these numbers constitute the Financial Signature
(FS) = Gross Margin + Relative indirect expenses

When the numbers and financial behaviors intersect
(1) gross margin and expenses are both high, “Venture Capitalist“
(2) high gross margin and low expenses, “Buccaneer“
(3) low gross margin and high expenses, “Mercantilist“
(4) gross margin and expenses are both low, “Discounter“

Any fiscal behavior needed to change based on the state of the business. There is no one size fits all approach.