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Prezi presentation adapted from content by Marcus Purvis; original available at
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-other-rules-life-marcus-purvis/
Live your life as an optimist
Optimism
Optimism feeds experience & experience feeds life. Optimism is confidence and hopefulness about the future. It'll bring you happiness, a great career, great friends and positively impact those around you. The ripple effect is huge. So it’s not just your life you’re enhancing, it’s those around you too.
Just don’t mistake optimism for delusion.
Learn to generate wealth over renting out your time
The optimal way to use your time is to generate wealth. Savings in a bank will generate small amounts of money. Putting every spare penny into index funds will generate wealth. Wealth gives you freedom.
Generate wealth
Goal
The goal is financial freedom, to choose who you work for and what you do without worrying about income.
That’s the ultimate freedom.
Renting out
your time
Renting out your time is what many of us have been taught. Education is still teaching us to get a career, go into debt for qualifications and focus on a retirement fund for the future. That’s not freedom.
Question everything
You should internally question everything you see and hear. Take the time to ask questions in your head and do some digging. Taming your voices is a by-product; the real beauty comes in making choices because you’re fully informed.
Question everything
82% of school students can’t tell the difference between sponsored and editorial content. Those over 65 share fake news 7x more than the youngest Facebook members.
Truthful information
Don’t believe blindly.
People who can question
Right now and more so in the future, those with the truth, those who can question instead of blindly follow, those are the people who’ll be more employable, happy and able to add real value to the lives of others and their own.
Don't look to others for validation
Confidence
Have confidence in yourself. This isn’t about using your ego to oversell yourself and your abilities. It’s about having confidence in your own worth. Confidence can be learned and continually developed. The benefits of this are amazing.
Don’t look to others for validation, look to yourself.
Travel, and I mean travel
Travel to build character and increase your stamina and understanding of our world. This isn’t going from A to B or on a vacation for a week or two. Without understanding the world, the value you add is limited.
Travel
Don’t be limited.
Read like your life depends on it because it does
Read fiction and nonfiction; one complements the other. Fiction helps your creative mind and nonfiction gives you information which can become knowledge. Both creativity & knowledge will take you far. A study at Yale shows people who read a lot live longer. Successful people read a lot.
Read
Paper books
Numerous studies still show paper books are better at conveying information and enabling our ability to retain it.
So read, enjoy, learn, grow and most of all share. Give books to others and keep reading alive for them to succeed too.
Know that love is a verb
To love a person, your work or (hopefully) both is an active experience. Love for work or a person doesn’t just happen then stay that way. There are countless people who no longer love the work they do. Don’t be like them.
Love
Believe in love
Sometimes life doesn’t go the way you want it. A person you actively love will leave you. A job you love will disappear. When that happens, know that you actively did your part. Learn and keep believing.
Don’t just believe, make it real.
You’re only right half of the time
Time
While you’re young you’ll feel like you’re right most of the time. As you get older you’ll see you’re wrong most of the time. You’re always right about how you feel, you’re almost always wrong about how you think another person feels. Strive to understand and the real magic of relationships begins.
Happiness is the ultimate currency
Happiness
You don’t need things. There are a lot of people doing jobs they hate, so they can maintain a lifestyle others will see as successful. It’s a life where $ are the ultimate currency rather than happiness.
Make happiness your main currency. But don't forget happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Everyone gets 24 hours
24 Hours
The most common statement from people is, ‘I don’t have time.’ Time is your most valuable asset. People will expect you to give it freely and without thought. You need to protect it and use it wisely.
You’ll never find time for anything; you have to create it.
Become the best at one specific thing. Become very good at two or more things
So many people focus on one thing. They then narrow their skills and expect great success to follow. The best software engineers I know are also great motivators or managers.
Skills
Be brilliant at something, not easily automated or outsourced. Be very good at two or more things you also enjoy (like public speaking or running a business).
You can’t predict the future but you can make it
Many people live life reacting to what happens, like when something happens and you get angry or scared. It’s the time when we act without thinking.
Future
I believe all of us can create a space between something happening and how we react. Sometimes it’s milliseconds, sometimes minutes or hours.
Questions
Whenever I do anything I ask 3 questions. What if I do nothing? What does good look like? What does bad look like?
Answering these helps me shape how I live day to day, while also preparing me to use space before reacting.
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Article published by engineer Marcus Purvis on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-other-rules-life-marcus-purvis/
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