Engineering life posts for living more effectively and efficiently.
For sure the experts’ tips and tricks are very useful. But there is something very important that you might be missing. It is in front of you and is usually for free but you could still ignore it. It is observing successful experts’ final pieces of work, products, and services that are already in front of you, and then reverse engineering to try to detect how they reached their great solutions.
To increase the effectiveness and the impact of whatever you do you usually have three options: 2. Increase the frequency: How many times do you do this thing per week. . Increase the frequency: How many times do you do this thing per week.
3. Increase the time spent doing that thing in one day or in one session.
One of the most important engineering principles that if you applied in life could change it is “taking fast tiny inaccurate steps, is usually more efficient and more effective in the long-term than taking small accurate steps”.
It is a good idea to try to think, what is the one thing that if you did well over time will completely change your life?
Hypothesize the different possibilities, and take each of them one at a time for a long enough time for your experiment to be authentic or statistically significant. “Inspired from multivariate calculus”
It is strange how I usually observe a lot of us approaching life pretty randomly and assume that everything will go well. Although we don’t have control over everything, we all have one thing which put us at a great disadvantage if misused, and that is our mind. When I say mind, I don’t mean just our perceptions, but unbiased perception.
If you have some innate tendencies in your learning, then try not to suppress them. On the contrary, try to exploit them so that will give you an edge or advantage over others.
For example, suppose that you are the kind of person who wants to understand everything in detail.
“Sigma” was staring at a bunch of numbers on the screen wondering how on earth will he make sense of them! While in this helpless state his friend “Mu” came next to him and said:
Mu: I understand your feelings. This seems overwhelming.
Time can be transformed into:
1. Money and Optimization
2. Learning and Investment
3. Soul Improvement
4. Psychology & Relationship Improvement
5. Thinking about how to do any of the previous
6. Destroying One’s Self – Bad Investment
7. Nothing – Bad Investment
8. I might have missed other thing(s)
In the name of Allah, most gracious and most merciful, Engineering is a great and useful discipline, in general, where many principles of it could be applied to real-life for our benefit. Here are 11 principles that I think could be applicable in real-life to help us live more effectively and efficiently. 1. Problem Definition …
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