Your education was not meant to teach you what to (the skills) but rather the how (to think)

Be better than before, than yesterday...

Many college grads think that the college/university education has equipped them for their job.  Maybe this is true for architecture, engineering:  civil, mechanical, electrical, marine;  vocational schools, accountancy, medicine, nursing.  For others it is teaching people HOW to think or lighting a  fire.

How to think, rather than memorizing should have been core activity even for technical job:   problem solving even at most :   difficult problem solving.  

This post is short of capable hands and heads, should I take a former staff who betrayed me decades ago?

Be better than before, than yesterday...

This post is short of hands.  People who are executives.  Who can understand orders and vision and execute on time and on budget.  She was good and even gifted her with an MB (2nd hand though)

There were people who went away and made it on their own albeit in form of treachery.   I understand the person is jobless and her talent can be put to good use...

Should all be forgotten and rehire her?  

Articulation training - how I practice this

Be better than before, than yesterday...

There is a lot of posts lately on articulation training.   I think it is a course and its going to cost you.  

From the ads, I can tell this all about:

1.   Being direct - avoid being superflous and indirect by beating around the bush;

2.  Avoid verbiage and using words that need dictionary or Google to understand. 

3. Be certain:   Avoid maybe, I will like to think.   Before I begin  (you have begun)  Be authoritative

4.  Avoid verbal crutch hmmm, vale, kuwan (in Tagalog) that exposes unclear and slow thinking...

They are only words, but words can take their hearts away.  Use words forcefully and well

Some of these are learning from journalistic training and public speaking by Dale Carnegie...

Let it go and move on

Be better than before, than yesterday...

One way they trap monkeys is to place a fruit they like in a container with narrow neck like demajohn, or other similar container.   The monkey will not let go of the fruit and they will be trapped by the container.  The solution  is for the monkey is to let go.  Psychologists call this loss aversion.  

There was similar story about a monkey with large watermelo seeing bunch of peaches which it also like.  For wanting the peaches, the watermelon dropped spilling the fruit on the road, and when he  turned attention again to the other fruit, they were gone and the  other monkeys took them away.

What are our loss aversion:    a good paying 9-6 jobs, comfort of a routine, old supplier old habits.   And that means we cant improve or move on