3-2-1 Weekly: Attention, Hope in Bad Times, 10-Year Plan

Even though the title is "Weekly" 3-2-1, my recent update frequency has indeed skipped a stitch, and it hasn't been updated for a few weeks! That's a far cry from James Clear, the source of this weekly 3-2-1. More! To be strengthened!!!

3-2-1: Paying attention, staying hopeful in bad times, and ten year plans

​https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/ july-21-2022

3 Ideas From Me

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"It is not necessary to change a person in order to change their behavior.
Just change their environment."
There is no need to change a person in order to change their behavior. Just change their environment.

Chinese people must have heard the story of "Meng's mother moving three times", a story of mothers who continue to migrate for the educational environment of their children. The environment can affect a person, especially when a child is growing up and learning, in order to create a "good" learning environment, he desperately squeezes into a "famous school". Once on a business trip to Beijing, I chatted with Master while taking a taxi. When it comes to kindergarten education, he said: Now, it’s really hard to get into a good school. Many schools have to be laid out before birth!

On the other hand, it seems to be the case in some areas in Taiwan now. In order to get into a good school, they bought a school district room, just so that children can grow up under the influence of "good environment"!

However, it is true that the environment wraps a person, but the most far-reaching "environment" is actually the "information" and "friends around him" that he comes into contact with every day. This is the truly important environment.

Seeing this~~ you may or think, the friends around you, don't you mean yourself? !

That's right, to change a person's behavior, the most direct way is to change the "environment" closest to him, that is, the behavior of "you"! When teaching children, that's how it is. Thousands of miles.

 ​II.
"Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict when you let them linger.
As a rule of thumb, fix it now."
A lot of problems, when you fix them right away, they are small problems, but when you let them linger, they become huge conflicts. 
As a rule of thumb, it should be fixed immediately!!

Minor illnesses are not healed, and big ones are not healed.

When a tree grows, it does not straighten it, and when it grows, it cannot be straightened even if it is crooked.

Making a plan is the same as making a product. As soon as there is a situation, it must be dealt with immediately, otherwise it is easy to end up unfinished.

III.
"Raise your ambitions. Lower your expectations.
The higher your ambitions, the bolder your actions.
The lower your expectations, the greater your satisfaction.
Achieve more and be happy along the way."
Raise your ambitions. Lower your expectations. 
The higher your ambition, the bolder your actions. 
The lower your expectations, the higher your satisfaction. 
Along the way, you can gain more and be happier.

People are always happy when things can be contented, and people are arrogant when they have no desire for quality.

No desire, contentment, of course, it is easy to be happy. But will I get old and look back and think "I knew~~~~", so I still have revenge ambitions, in case it really happens~ 😁😁😁

2 Quotes From Others

 i.
Music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, who trained many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, on focus:
Music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger has produced many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, focusing on:
"Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I'd go so far as to say life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
Anyone who doesn't pay attention to what they are doing is wasting their life. I would even say that life is denied for lack of attention, whether it's cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Source: Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger

​Many books on success will focus on one of the elements of success, or even the most important factor.

Where you focus, there will be achievements!

Very typical chicken soup shoutout. Modern people are getting more and more difficult to concentrate because of too much noise, and the 24-hour information on the mobile phone has become a drug for the brain, which can lead to addiction if you are not careful. In addition to mobile phones, endless dramas from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, mainland China, and Thailand have become drugs that seize the attention of the brain.

Smoking drugs kills lives, isn't wasting attention also a waste of life?!

 ​II.
Historian and author, Howard Zinn, on the importance of what you choose to emphasize:
Historian and author Howard Zinn on the importance of your choice to emphasize "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
Hopeful in bad times isn't just silly romance. It is based on the fact that human history is not only a history of cruelty, but a history of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we only see the worst-case scenario, it destroys our ability to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are many—where people excelled, it gave us the energy to act, at least potentially sending the world's spinning top in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
If we do take action, either way, we won't have to wait for some grandiose utopian future. The future is a gift of infinite continuum, and living the present as we think humans should live, ignoring all the bad things around us, is a remarkable victory in itself.

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

The future is a gift of infinite continuum, and living the present as we think humans should live, ignoring all the bad things around us, is a remarkable victory in itself.

​Choice is more important than hard work. It is a popular saying in recent years! Indeed, it is wishful thinking to make a wrong choice but hope for a good result, and such a delusion can easily lead to misery.

Conversely, there is no right or wrong choice in itself. What really defines the right or wrong choice is your expectation of the outcome.

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1 Question For You

 A question from computer programmer Simon Sarris:
"If you have a ten year plan, what's stopping you from doing it in two?"
A question from computer programmer Simon Sarris: "If you have a ten-year plan, what prevents you from doing it in two years?"

The translation of this sentence, I am not sure if doing it in two is as I translated, in two (years).

If so, planning a ten-year plan is usually complex and sequential, but it's a good question to check to see if your "ten-year" plan is puffy! Is there anything that can be done in two years? Do it, if there is, then the ten-year plan is puffy, or it can take ten years to achieve the results that could have been achieved in the original fifty years.