On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, > > Nice article. I've been guilty of shooting beyond 40 hours a week > easily despite efforts to curb it.
What efforts specifically? Desire is not effort of course, and while there can be exceptions for brief periods of time - once one decides to never dedicate one's life to a single workplace then no one usually cares to object. > 1. Working on something where you are a pro in terms of skills. Lesser > the pro you are, you have to spend time reading up on many stuff and > mastering the stuff that you counter in your daily work before > implementing and executing those stuff. The problem is if you never start working on anything else then you will never get to be a pro at anything else. There's a quote from Zorba the Greek that goes like this: Alexis Zorba: Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... Basil: Or else? Alexis Zorba: ...he never dares cut the rope and be free. Perhaps it's a good thing to every few years try something you are not a pro at - once you have half a dozen or more skill sets the feeling of liberation and freedom one has is quite something else. > 2. Culture and such. Depends on the environment in your company or > work place. Sometimes you need support from others to finish tasks > asap. Any laxness on others part (for eg: late reviews, late > discussions etc) makes it only tougher for you etc. I know people who hate the apartments they live in, but never actually bother moving because it's too difficult to move, or there's a false belief that all apartments are equally bad in some way or the other. Work is the same thing - don't be afraid to quickly change two or three jobs until you find one you really like. Sometimes it becomes necessary to quit a city or a culture because the local maximum in that region is just not good enough, just like sometimes it is necessary to change neighborhoods to find a good apartment. Change is also good because it makes you aware of the really important things in your life, and the things that are just taking up space. I hate change, and I have a problem quitting a good thing when it has stopped being a good thing, but despite that I've lived in maybe 8 cities in the last 10 years, some cities were less than a year, and some cities were 2-3 years, and I know that the last decade has been phenomenal for me in terms of personal growth. Give change a chance. There is no need to accept reality as immutable. Cheeni
