My notes from a really interesting book “Hyperfocus”: The “Hyperfocus” mode helps you manage attention and become more productive; The “Scatterfocus” mode helps you intentionally wander and become more creative. Check out my write-up in Chinese 《视觉笔记 • 提升个人生产力和创造力的两种聚焦模式》.
Show your radical candor when giving feedback, illustrated by Yingying
What radical candor means and how to give radically candid feedback.
Effectively managing and influencing your stakeholders is crucial to the success of a project. So, how to do it? Check out my write-up in Chinese 《视觉笔记 • 如何在利益相关人士中，有效建立你的影响力》.
I came across this wonderful quote and can’t help but draw it.
From acting passively to proactively to having a sense of ownership — check out my write-up for this sketchnote in Chinese 《视觉笔记 • 从被动到主动，再到主人翁意识》。
“Never miss an opportunity to be fabulous.” comes Tina Seelig’s book What I wish I Knew When I Was 20 — one of my favorite books. She teaches at Stanford University, and promises to deliver her very best in each class and expects the same from the students.
She said this in the book “being fabulous comes in many flavors, but it all starts with removing the cap and being willing to reach for your true potential. This means going beyond minimum expectations and acknowledging that you are ultimately responsible for your actions and the resulting outcomes. Doing just 1% better each day leads to enormous positive results. Life isn’t a dress rehearsal, and you won’t always get a second chance to do your best.”
Parul shared her journey in getting through breast cancer treatment and these five lessons – how to be resilient and take control of our lives, during the uncertain times.
After the game Bubble Bobble became a hit in the game industry, MTJ, creator of the game, decided to approach the next version differently.
Typically, when companies develop the next version of a game, they keep some aspects from the previous version — characters, stories, elements, the name of the game, etc.
MTJ decided to abandon them all and developed Rainbow Island. In some places, this next game got a bigger hit. When asked why he chose to do that, this was what he said.
I believe he made up his mind to stay creative and challenge himself to try diverse initiatives. It turned out good for him.
In my opinion, you need to make a good use of your judgement to decide when to follow the rules or break them. Some rules benefit you, for example, a design system allows you to put together designs fast. However, others hinder your creativity — “the reason why you should do this is that we’ve always done this way”.
Being able to effectively influence others is very important, if you need to move projects forward with limited resources.
Some say good attitudes = good outcomes. But good managers know that this is not true. Here’s a framework from my coworker on developing people.