Tech, Strategy, and other interesting things by Roberto Zoiaby Roberto Zoia
Me gusta este comercial de Nike porque el mensaje de la héroe no es solamente un poderoso “sí puedo”. No se trata de un voluntarismo vacío. Sus obstáculos son reales y patentes, y la meta que se propone ambiciosa incluso sin sus limitaciones. Y es claro que no lo logró de la noche a la mañana.
Sí podemos. Todos podemos. Un paso adelante cada día.
I like this Nike commercial because the message of the hero is not just a powerful “I can”. It’s not pure voluntarism. Her obstacles are real. And her goal is a goal that would be difficult even without her limitations. And it’s clear that she didn’t achieve her dreams in one day.
Yes, we can. We all can. Step by step.
The key to better understanding the world is to build a latticework of mental models.
— Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1
What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original — if you’re not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
In the absence of continual external reinforcement, we must be our own monitor, and quality of presence is often the best gauge. We cannot expect to touch excellence if “going through the motions” is the norm of our lives. On the other hand, if deep, fluid presence becomes second nature, then life, art, and learning take on a richness that will continually surprise and delight. Those who excel are those who maximize each moment’s creative potential—for these masters of living, presence to the day-to-day learning process is akin to that purity of focus others dream of achieving in rare climactic moments when everything is on the line.
— Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning (p. 172)