What I have learned from career life

Slow down, so that I can notice the most important details that keep the business running.
And then,
Speed up, so that I can keep pace with, even lead the business growth.

Finally, triggered.

Dull and trivial life is not what I wanted, so I have to change myself to realize new, happier way of life.

Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong

If there are perfect laws that exist in everything, this is one of them:

-- "Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong"

The law sometimes seems not obvious to me because most of the time, I might have been lost my mind and faith after a careless failure.

I will not deceive myself by pretending to be indifferent to my own failures.

Patience is a necessary but not sufficient condition for real achievements

No matter how great the goal is, and how fast I can move forward, if I lose my patience and overlook key direction signs, I will most probably get lost and reach somewhere I don't expect to go.

I have to move forward

"There's no beginning or ending, just doing." It's a simple word quoted from the movie "Peaceful Warrior". Too simple to be misunderstood, yet to difficult to be practiced.

Most of the time, I just wait in vain for a sudden "upgrade" to happen on myself rather than try my best to improve. The most common excuses are: I've already done a lot, I'm too busy to undertake another mission... The logic seems correct, but the true meaning behind them are tricky: I'm going to avoid facing the most frustrating and overwhelming tasks while not let others, even the conscious self know that I'm procrastinating.

Too much gabbles here, let me move forward.

Bug to be verified: rash thinking process

It has long been discovered that my thinking process is a bit rash and jumping both in study, work and daily life. This issue occurred as early as I was in primary school. I simply viewed it as a personal habitual problem that would not cause too much trouble, but was not aware of the potential side-effects it would inevitably result in.

What side-effects can be resulted by rash thinking process? Basically, failure to calculate accurately; and then, inclination to avoid calculation-related problems; and further more, incapability to face any higher-level problems which are based on simple calculation. It is a bit disappointing for me, as many objectives I was planning to achieve step by step seems to be endangered or blocked, at least judged by my currently rashly-thinking mind.

However, I'm going to take it easy, i.e. I'm not trying to be a mathematician or logician or any calculation-related scientist, but I'll try to fix my logical and calculating mind a little before entering the next level of struggling in life.

Basic concepts or skills can not be ignored

Almost every time when I failed to master a complex concept or skill, I found out later that there were some basic concepts or skills left unclear. The more hasty I was trying to master it, the more frustrated I felt the basic concepts or skills was preventing me from going forward.

I'm not going to blame myself for not understand every basics before practicing a more complex concept or skill, but I must remind myself that the learning -> practicing -> reviewing -> re-practicing loop is not going to end.

I can be stupid by misunderstand some basics at the beginning of the learning loop, but I cannot afford the laziness of not reviewing and re-practicing, i.e. ignore some basics forever.

I won't provide this type of "advice" any more

This is a very interesting picture with an insightful judgment on it:

“Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = ADVICE”

reference link: http://blog.daryn.net/post/32264049/paul-buchheit-limited-life-experience

Here ADVICE represents a more symbolic meaning rather than a serious definition. And it's more than a sarcastic one-liner. It happened everyday in my fast-paced but superficial lifestyle.

Yes, "my", because I don't know whether other people live that way, and I won't try giving them ADVICE as I usually did before.

Plan is as Plan is

I used to think subconsciously that a Plan has to include every risk handling details before it is written down formally, but I was wrong.

Plan should be a high-level objective-oriented working guideline, no matter how risky or difficult a certain step in it is or will become. To deal with unexpected risks or difficulties is another part of the whole mission - execution. A Plan has to be as the "Plan" means to be.

I won't try to understand everything by investigation any more

I used to believe that it is worthwhile to investigate everything in order to understand it more thoroughly. However, The initiative is only partially correct: only when the primary target is "to understand thoroughly" should I try to investigate all by myself. Otherwise, reading a user's manual or a classic textbook will be more helpful - At least helpful for keeping a more predictable psychological state and working pressure sequence.