To my future child,
Over the years I have collected a lot of advices and kept the ones that are quite useful. Here are some simple rules so you can navigate the boring stuff of life and enjoy the less boring parts of it.
I hope that they will help you and that you may add some more to them, pass them along so people you care about will enjoy life with you, because a life in solitary and with no one to share what you know with, is a life not well lived.
In the absence of reliable data one must reduce risk.
When you don't know what the job is about, hire somebody that is liberal and creative.
Trusting in your own capabilities is to command yourself and know that you will execute and accomplish it.
Always keep in mind that when you are trying to help there is a possibility that you are causing more harm.
Imagine you are in a heated argument with a coworker, your spouse, or just a friend. Be the one to keep calm, be the reasonable one, you often don't know what the other person is going through and why they are reacting badly to your argument, it could be something completely different than what the argument is about.
Learn from your children as soon as possible, they may have a different angle on stuff than you, which is always helpful.
If you are successful at one thing, then more opportunities will come your way. You will meet more people and more people open even more doors for you which lead to the manifestation of more opportunities.
Everything we accomplish has a price attached to it. If you are famous you will pay rumors and gossip tax. If you have more than you need or things that others desire, theft is one possible tax you may have to pay. In light of success you pay taxes in stress and problems.
When you know what the job is about, hire somebody that is conscientious and conservative.
When you struggle to be creative or come up with a new concept try this: Don't be afraid of failure, it can happen, it is natural to happen a lot of times but don’t let it paralyze you. Every once in a while try something new. Go on this new hiking route, take a different route with the bus, add some randomness to your routine. Lastly get off the path of the least resistance. Our brain is very energy efficient, it will try to connect the dots on things we already know. True creativity lies when we do stuff that are initially hard and then get easier with time. All things you can do now once were difficult.