First draft of Motivation

slides/discipline.md

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 ## Discipline
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 When your rationality wants one thing
 
 but your emotions do something else.

slides/motivation.md

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 Why do we do the things we do?
 
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 ### Internal motivation
 
-We follow our own target.
+We have our own target and we follow it.
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 - progress feels more rewarding <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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 ### TOOL: Personal Vision
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 #### How to get one?
 1. SWOT analysis
 2. Achievements
-3. Motivating activities
+3. Analyzing motivating activities
 4. Beta-Vision
 5. Final Personal Vision
 
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-### SWOT
+#### Step 1:
+### Personal SWOT
 
 - S - Strengths
 - W - Weaknesses
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 -V-
 
-Time to reflect on yourself.
+Time to reflect on yourself!
 
 -V-
 
-#### Strengths + Opportunities
+#### Strengths
-- use as much as possible
+- skills, traits and qualities you have
-- supports flow
+- using them supports flow
+- personal vision makes use of these as much as possible
 
 -V-
 
 #### Weaknesses
-- avoid if possible
+- qualities you lack; limitations and negative traits
-- can be improved, but don't devote too much time on it
+- using them retards flow
-- retards flow
+- personal vision avoids them if possible
+
+These can be improved, but don't devote too much time to it. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
+
+-V-
+ 
+ #### Opportunities
+ - possibilities today's world offers to us
+ - using them supports flow
+ - personal vision builds on them
+ 
+ Only a few will be used. The rest needs to be rejected and banished <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
+ 
+ to gain focus, clarity and mastery <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
+
+ to avoid decision paralysis or regrets. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
 -V-
 
 #### Threats
-- take into account, be prepared
+- risks, possible negative impacts or scenarios
-- face a potential fear
+- take them into account
+- recognize them and be prepared
+- awareness helps with facing a potential fear
 
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 ### My SWOT
 
-...
+-V-
+<!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" -->
+#### Strengths
+- attention to detail, carefulness, looking for perfection
+- enjoy exploring and learning new technologies
+- like to solve problems and mysteries in tech
+- life-long programming experience
+
+-V-
+<!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" -->
+#### Weaknesses
+- lacking in open confrontation, group arguments
+- introverted, social interactions are taxing
+- cautious in opinions, not an 'influencer'
+
+-V-
+<!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" -->
+#### Opportunities
+- contribute to open source development
+- use college degree on distributed systems
+- change jobs for
+    - different role
+    - better pay
+    - more aligned tech stack
+- get exposure as an expert
+- contribute to the state-of-the-art
+- share knowledge through talks and blog
+
+-V-
+<!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" -->
+#### Threats
+- changed role: boring / stressful / annoying
+- changed job:
+    - low pay / annoying co-workers / toxic workplace / long commute
+    - having to use Windows
 
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+#### Step 2:
 ### Personal Achievements
-- pride, joy
+- things you are proud of or that brought you joy
-- evidence of strengths
+- provides specific evidence of your strengths
+- helps to gain confidence and think positively
 
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 ### My Achievements
 
-...
+- finished college with a cool master's thesis
+- became a dev team leader
+- self-hosting the services I use via VPS
+- extracted ERP legacy tax functionality via a strategy pattern
+- built and coded a split keyboard
+- learned to type using the Workman layout
+- ...
 
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-### Motivating Activities
+#### Step 3:
-Personal vision should consist of these.
+### Analyzing motivating activities
 
-Categories:
+Find out what drives you; strengthen your vision.
-- bringing growth
+
+<div class="fragment">
+
+Categories of activities:
+- bringing personal growth
 - creating legacy
 - building relationships
-- carry meaning
+- with deeper meaning
 
-Activity should ideally fit into multiple categories!
+</div>
+
+---
+
+#### Growth : Legacy : Relationships : Meaning
+
+An activity should ideally fit into multiple categories.
+
+Goal: find groups of activities that support each other.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
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 ### My Activities
-
+- writing readable code, testing, refactoring
-...
+- exploring new technologies and approaches
+- contributing to open source projects
+- learning through books and conferences
+- knowledge sharing through blog, mentoring, talks
+- working with colleagues - reviews, discussions
+- research of innovative solutions
+- solving problems, making software more useful
 
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+#### Step 4:
 ### Beta-Vision
-Finding a personal vision takes effort.
+Finding a personal vision takes effort and time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
-Finding a beta version is easier
+Finding a beta version is easier<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
-...and you won't procrastinate finding it!
+and you won't procrastinate before finding it!<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
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 #### Answer these...
 
-1. Favorite quote, idea that resonates?
+1. Favorite quote/idea that resonates?
 2. Life values?
 3. Fulfilling activities?
 4. Meaningful activities?
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 ### My Beta-Vision
 
-...
+- coding useful software on a daily basis
+- continually learning from others
+- sharing my knowledge with others
+- sharing code publicly
 
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 ### Final Personal Vision
 
+A few paragraphs of what you want to be doing,
+
+taking into account the analysis from the previous steps.
+
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 ### My Final Vision
 
-...
+I'm still iterating.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
 
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 ### Act Now!
 
-How can you incorporate your vision in your daily life?
+> How can I incorporate my vision in my daily life?
 
 Starting small is fine, as long as you start!
 
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 ### My Start
 
-...
+I started fixing defects in Android apps I use.