ent week 3

I love the three circle idea from Tom Kelly. Each circle
1. good at
2. Pay you to do it
3. Born to do

The circles are drawn to meet each other.  Where they intersect is where you can find your most success.  The lab book about 'yourself' is such a great idea. Not sure I would really do it. Might find out something about myself I don't want to know. haha

How I wish my husband and I had both taken a class like this when we were first married. It would have helped us in careers and raising kids at home.

Christensen's talk was amazing. Some things I want to remember:

instead of telling him what to think, I taught him
how to think—and then he reached what I felt
was the correct decision on his own.

having a clear purpose in my life has
been essential. But it was something I had to
think long and hard about before I understood
it. When I was a Rhodes scholar, I was in a very
demanding academic program, trying to cram
an extra year’s worth of work into my time at
Oxford. I decided to spend an hour every night
reading, thinking, and praying about why God
put me on this earth. That was a very challenging
commitment to keep, because every hour I
spent doing that, I wasn’t studying applied
econometrics. I was conflicted about whether I
could really afford to take that time away from
my studies, but I stuck with it—and ultimately
figured out the purpose of my life.

My purpose grew out of my religious faith,
but faith isn’t the only thing that gives people
direction. For example, one of my former students
decided that his purpose was to bring
honesty and economic prosperity to his country
and to raise children who were as capably
committed to this cause, and to each other, as
he was. His purpose is focused on family and
others—as mine is.
The choice and successful pursuit of a profession
is but one tool for achieving your purpose.
But without a purpose, life can become
hollow.

Allocation choices can make your life turn
out to be very different from what you intended.
Sometimes that’s good: Opportunities
that you never planned for emerge. But if
you misinvest your resources, the outcome
can be bad.

Knowing what tools to wield to elicit the needed cooperation is a critical
managerial skill.

Don’t worry about the level of individual
prominence you have achieved; worry about
the individuals you have helped become better
people. This is my final recommendation:
Think about the metric by which your life will
be judged, and make a resolution to live every
day so that in the end, your life will be judged
a success.