Daveraj Sikder

3 Ideas from me

1. Seek negative feedback. Your closest friends have an incentive to maintain the friendship with positive compliments. Getting the negative feedback is painful but you’ll find out what they don’t like. And you can change your product accordingly.
2. Absorb books. When you can recite part of a book. That book becomes ingrained in you. And you’ll never lose it being part of you.
3. Running faster on the wrong path won’t help you.
   1. Toxic friendships creates more drags.
   2. Bad mentors give bad advice which becomes apart of you.
   3. Working harder is wasting your time.

3 Insights from Others.

1. From American restaurateur Will Guidara: ”Serve only what you want to serve, and you’re showing off. Serve only what you think other people want, your pandering. Serve what you genuinely want to receive, and there will be authenticity to the experience.”
2. From English Novelist Jane Austen: ”It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
3. From American Author and Computer Science Professor Cal Newport: “Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”

3 Questions for you?

1. What minor task that’s causing you a minor problem isn’t being done?
2. If you had 1, 5 and 10 years to live, what would you be doing now?
3. Who am I spending my time with and why?

Best,

Daveraj Sikder