"How to Be a High School Superstar" : Play Some Politics

"How to Be a High School Superstar," by Cal Newport, 2010, is a wonderful book.

I am surprised to find that this book discusses politics unwittingly. These superstars know how to play politics at a premature age!

Step 1: Cut back

Have a stop-work point e.g. In my Graduate school, I stopped all forms of study at 4:00 p.m sharp.
Reduce your study time so that you get more time for other steps below, for instance.

Step 2: Explore

1. Experience interesting stuffs: people, places, events, especially. communities that are well-known but little-understood and that still have open roles.
2. Deconstruct a success path.
3. Pursue something hard to mentally simulate, but not that hard to execute. By the way "Parkinson Rule," Book 3, said this a lot better.
4. Have patience if you can't have faith. Don't think, just believe you'll have it.

Step 3: Focus

Review and reduce your goal list to just 1 or 2 "deep interests."
Litmus test: Does that excite you on a weekend morning?

Step 4: Execute

1. In your chosen community, pay your dues first, get political buy-in first.
2. Get good: Give up your assumptions, learn from the successful. Immerse.
3. Do what the Community Elders recommend/suggest/offer. Or just add a tiny bit of the new in something already existing.
4. Sequence your objectives in terms of achievability. "Underdog Advantage" said this better in many ways.

  

Football Philosophy

1. Fun and Efficiency can stay separate.e.g. I can have fun without efficiency. Or I can be efficient without any fun.
2. But,  Fun and Efficiency do not necessarily mutually exclude each other. e.g. Fun can be efficient. And Efficiency can be fun.
3. Fun and Efficiency must balance against each other and against other factors as well.

Playing football for 3 hours a day?
No time for study, for helping parents?

Play same old same old styles, tactics, techniques?

Play half-hearted, absent-hearted ways?

Then, we become not only poor students but also bad, lame football players!

Life cannot be full without being mindful.

Internet Etiquette : Spare Our Time

The Stackoverflow site has been introduced to avoid the Google Loop, regarding programmers' queries.

There are many more such loops and a majority of them are caused by human beings themselves.

If you try searching "how to measure web marketing," "how to measure online marketing," "how to measure Internet marketing," for instance, you will find that the materials online didn't give you any specific answers.

What is worse is that you discover that only after some hours.

If we impose Twitter-like restrictions on Internet/web content, that will save us a lot of time. I suggest a "500 words or less" restriction.

We, here at ethicminds are polite. We won't waste your time.

For the above the query, all you need is just these 2 books :

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics and
Yahoo! Web Analytics Book