Originally posted on Future and Science Hacks:
As much as I would love to impress people with my talent, I found this pursuit leads to misery. We all like to be loved and adored. We seek this endless path leading us to emptiness and exhaustion. Don’t impress people you dislike. Many years ago, when I was a…
Why you Should not Impress the People you Dislike by Suf Alkhaldi
As much as I would love to impress people with my talent, I found this pursuit leads to misery. We all like to be loved and adored. We seek this endless path leading us to emptiness and exhaustion. Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I could not know the difference between admiration and love. I… Read More
Why it is not important what people think about you by Suf Alkhaldi
It is almost impossible not to hear this statement when you talk to someone: what would so-and-so think or say? My mind immediately shoots this subliminal fast response: who cares what people think or this person thinks! This question generates anxiety in many people, especially young people. Our low self-esteem usually does not let us… Read More
My deep learning skills for 2017 by Suf Alkhaldi
As the new year of 2017 is approaching very soon, I usually spend some time to decide what kind of skills I need to develop in the next year. To select a skill, I spent some time thinking. I like to select skills to give me the highest level of impact and return on my… Read More
Why do you need a mentor? By Suf Alkhaldi
If you are a go-getter and don’t have a mentor, you are really missing out of a great source of knowledge and wisdom. Having a mentor is as important as having a job. All the research conducted on high-power achievers shows that they all have one thing in common: they all have great mentors. Having… Read More
The wonder of Icelandic vacation 2 by Suf Alkhaldi
Probably, the most amazing cure for stress and the way to recharge my life battery is to take a vacation. Vacations for me usually reset the time to calibrate my life priorities. On vacations, I slow down by looking at my life with new lenses, asking myself different deep questions. Many people refuse to take vacations — an idea… Read More
The wonders of an Icelandic vacation by Suf Alkhaldi
Sitting in a coffee shop with my wife Sara ordering decaf cappuccinos in downtown Reykjavik a couple of weeks ago, I felt that I was transformed to a new world. Most of the people who were sitting there were in their late twenties to mid-thirties. Some were drinking coffee and eating cake while others were drinking… Read More
How to self-control and manage your willpower by Suf Alkhaldi
Self-control is something we all need to work on when we hit our teenage years and beyond. Teenage years are often full of bad decisions — pushing against conventional wisdom and challenging anything that represents the establishment or authority. My parents worked hard to teach me to control my anger, joy, as well as my desires.… Read More
Why avoiding bad advice is hard by Suf Alkhaldi
One of the good skills I needed to develop was to know the difference between good and bad advice. It sounds simple, but it was not that simple for me and it is still not. Knowing the difference between good and bad advice is not only hard, it is a skill – at least I have… Read More
The 10,000 hours of deliberate practice rule by Suf Alkhaldi
The 10,000 hours deliberate practice was first introduced by K. Anders Ericsson in his famous article in Harvard Business Review in July-August of 2007, which has been famously used by Cal Newport (productivity blogger and Computer Scientist at Georgetown University) and Malcolm Blackwell, the author of Outlier. Blackwell proved that in order to master a skill like playing… Read More
