100 things

So I'm reading a book by Tony Robbins.  It's Awaken the Giant Within.  The book by Bill Gates was temporarily kicked to the curb.  I'll pick it back up after this book. 

One of the things Tony Robbins says is that we spend our time chasing pleasure and avoiding pain.  The best way to solve a problem is to associate so much pain with the idea that you never perform that action again.  

Sounds kind of vague.

I merged that with something from John Maxwell.  He was talking about not liking yourself.  If you have a problem with liking yourself, write down 100 things that are good about you.  Don't stop until you get to 100.

So, I decided to combine that with Tony Robbins.

Take some problem you want to solve.

Write down 100 reasons or effects of not getting that thing.  Start building a giant catalogue of the pains you are going to feel if you don't accomplish your goal.

At the moment, I'm doing this on computer.  Paper would probably work to. 

But write at least 100 items.  And write them out in full sentences.  No vagueness. Be very specific.

I'm very hopeful for this idea.  Let's see how it works. 

Snowball

Finished reading The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life. I think I'd give it a 6/10.

It wasn't a bad book, it was just way too in depth some times.  The book is a door stop, and the information flows liberally at times and with great intention.  So much so that certain sections seem to get bogged down in the finer details of everything that happened to be happening at the same time.  It's a strange bit of craziness. 

Anyways.

Warren Buffet was always a little strange.  He was the kid that had six jobs and was rich before everyone knew what rich was.  He really was. Which is possibly why he ended up becoming as rich as he did.  I guess his major obsession was simply making money.  And with a bit of the right knowledge and a lot of luck, he made a lot of it. 

My primary takeaway on this book is that you need to find an obsession and work towards the end of that obsession until it leads you down a path.  Could be a good path, and it could be a bad path.  It's simply a path.

Buffet worked essentially on concentration throughout this entire life.  Those parts that were important to him, he followed deeply.  Everything else he ignored. 

Things not follow from Warren Buffet: his personal life.  His personal life was flat out strange.  His obsession with various women that he wasn't married to caused all sorts of strangeness in his life.  His disregard for his kids during their formative years also seems to have been critical. 

It that category, he fit in with other visionaries I've read about.  John Boyd comes to mind.  Anyways, I'd say the book is worthy of reading.  Just be prepared to donate a lot of time to it.  I dropped the book half way in (shortly before the Furniture Mart section) just simply due to the large amount of detail.  Part of that detail simply took away from the flow of the book.  

Next up on the list...  Boone.