Archive for December, 2011
“Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Athletes refer to this perfect practice as building muscle memory. Basically the professional athlete practices the same perfect move over and over again until they make the move without consciously thinking about it. The muscles and brain work together to literally remember each move as they go through the motion so they can do it with little conscious effort. This state is often referred to as being in “Flow”…Make it a point today to plan time each week to have that practice.”
-Jim Ryerson, First 100 Days of Selling
Uthred av Bebbanburg er en forhatt hedning i sirkelen rundt den dypt religiøse kong kong Alfred av Wessex. Uthred er hatet for sin vantro, men også hatet fordi han besitter dyp kunnskap om krig. Han har erfaring og instinkter som setter han i stand til å vinne over de fryktede danskene som herjer de britiske øyer. En dobbelt forhatt mann som er en fjern forfar av forfatteren selv, Cornwell. Kongens krigere elsker Uthred. Her er et utdrag som gjør at vi forstår hvorfor:
Now, on another bridge I drew Wasp-sting, a brief and brutal blade that could be lethal in the thight embrace of the shield wall. When men are close as lovers, when their shields are presing on each other, when you smell their breath and see the rot in their teeth and the fleas in their beards, and when there is no room to swing a war axe or a long-sword, then Wap-sting could stab up from beneath. She was a gut-piercing sword, a horror.
And that was a horror-slaughter on a winter´s day. The Danes had seen our piled kindling and assumed there was nothing but reeds smokng damply on the bridge, yet beneath the reeds Osferth had stacked roof timbers and when the leading Danes tried to kick the reeds off the bridge´s roadway they kicked those heavy timbers instead and stumbled.
Here is my favourite quote from the book:
When you finally stop sitting around thinking and get into motion, wonderful things happen. Firstly, you get lots of feedback – both internal and external. The external feedback is about what you´re good at and what you´re not so good at. The internal feedback is how it felt, what you enjoyed and what you didn´t. Record it all.
The other thing is that once you´re in motion, the view is completely different. Just like the view is different for the person who gets on the train compared to the person who stays behind on the platform. In transit all sorts of opportunities present themselves that aren´t visible when you´re sitting at home researching on google. You run into people who can help you on your project; you get recommendations for books you can read and websites you can use, and people ask you to help them with their projects. You might even make some money before you´ve really tried to!
Anbefaling av deg på Linkedin
Du bør sørge for at anbefalingen av deg på linkedin er spesifikk. En kort historie om en konkret ting du har gjort. Resultatet du oppnådde. En emosjonell beskrivelse av hvorfor resultatet var viktig for personen som skriver anbefalingen. Gjerne med en beskrivelse av en av dine sterke sider og hvorfor din styrke var viktig for utfallet.
“Damn mist! It gets in your eyes so you can´t see no more than a few strides ahead. It gets in your ears so you can´t here nothing, and when you do you can´t tell where it is coming from. It gets up your nose so you can´t smell naught but wet´n damp.
