[POV] 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄.

 Reference:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hernglee_one-thing-i-notice-about-googlers-with-accelerated-activity-7206982328487714816-Ooe1

An excerpt from above link also from day-to-day working with my super talented co-workers @Google.

tl;dr

• It doesn't entail false confidence. 
• It also doesn't require manufactured contrarian-ness.
• It just means that you're cutting out noise for people.

Level 1: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗣𝗢𝗩

If you don't have a POV (yet) – just say it.

Level 2: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

Dig as deep as you can.

Having a strong POV does not mean you always have the answers right off the bat. 

Even just having a view of what information is relevant is a great first step.

Doing so at least helps others focus.

Level 3: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀.

Identifying (potentially) relevant information is good. Even better? 

Generating relevant hypotheses in pursuit of a potential solution. 

You might not always be right, of course. But if your hypothesis is good? 

Then validating (or disproving) it gets the group closer to answers. 

Either way, there is value. Even if you didn't offer any immediate solutions.

Level 4: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.

While generating hypotheses is a great way to deliver your point of view, you need to be careful. Because chasing down hypotheses takes time and effort.

And if you're not disciplined with your ideation process? 

Your hypotheses risk becoming distractions. 

So instead: People with a strong POVs tend to think in frameworks. 

They try to think rigorously and structurally. Their goal is not to give you the answer, but rather a viable path towards the answer.

Level 5: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗤𝗕𝗤."

Having a strong POV does not mean you default to giving perfect answers to every question. 

Instead, the most rigorous thinkers focus on the "QBQ" (Question Behind the Question) first. 

In other words, before delivering their POV, they ask questions like: 

- "Is this even the right question to ask?" 

- "What are we actually trying to solve for?" 

- "What's the underlying question behind this?"

People with strong POVs are trained to find the QBQ before trying to problem-solve. Because sometimes? Even the people asking aren't aware that they're asking the wrong questions.

4 Productivity Feynman Strategies

FOUR Productivity FEYNMAN- strategies:

i) Stop trying to know-it-all.

ii) Don't worry about what others are thinking.

iii) Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

iv) Have a sense of humor and talk honestly.

v) shut-up/empty-your-mind/smile (focus on high-quality open source projects) (shc)

柯P人生哲學4境界

http://www.gvm.com.tw/webonly_content_4094_1.html





新任台北市長柯文哲被年輕人封為「柯神」，不是沒道理的，他的親和力強，來者不拒。
上任前一週，為了順利交接，市政各局處來柯辦簡報業務，在忙碌的行程中，他硬是騰出半小時接受清華大學生醫工程與環境科學系大四學生的課堂作業訪問。

 
問及他對成功的定義，柯文哲說，「成功就是Do right things. 和 Do things right. 在台灣這個多元社會，成功定義自己下，要為自己而活。」

 
柯文哲是天子驕子，聰明又會念書，想不到大學聯考卻沒考上他的第一志願台大醫學系，遭遇人生第一個挫折。

 
哪年大學聯考的數學題目有史以來最難，他看到題目有些驚慌失措，表現失常，差3分進不了台大醫學系。收到成績單後，他有半個月以淚洗面。大二重考，終於進入台大醫學系，大學也念了9年才畢業。

 
「人生最困難的不是挫折打擊，而是面臨各種挫折困難，仍沒有失去對人世的熱情。挫折是人生一部分，過一段時間再看，好像也沒那麼嚴重。」他說。

 
柯文哲博學強記，大學時他讀到一段經典名言，至今也奉為人生圭臬。
「人生有4種境界：把自己當自己，是自在；把自己當別人，是無我；把別人當自己，是博愛；把別人當別人，是智慧。」頗富哲理。

 
2011年台大醫院發生愛滋病患器官誤植事件，讓只是負責建置器官登錄制度，並未參與開刀、驗證過程的他，被衛生署和監察院調查，他的頭髮在4天內白了一半，這個意外讓他的人生大轉折。

 
柯文哲說，一般人遇到挫折，會出現4種反應：懷憂喪志、憤世嫉俗、走火入魔和面對人生。

他最後選擇積極面對，很快調整心情，決定為自己尋找第二人生。所謂山不轉路轉，路不轉人轉，人不轉心轉，之後遇到的挫折都不算什麼了，他都能淡然處之。

不過，潛意識裡的驕傲心態，又常不免流露出來，他說自己「貢高我慢」，對台灣醫學界的貢獻高，不免有些傲慢，有時候捉老鼠的本性就會跑出來。

對於人生的得失，一天平均工作16小時的柯文哲坦承，很少參與三個孩子的童年與成長；尤其是個性和他最像的大女兒，因為被他打過，父女兩人至今仍有些心結未解。

而如果人生可以從來，他會做不同的選擇嗎？
「不用回頭看，何必看不能改變的事實，人生只能活一次。」

他要清大學生回去看看他在TED的18分鐘演講。演講中他說，他應是台灣看過最多死亡的醫生，醫學是有極限的，即使醫療科技如此進步，也不能改變生老病死。
經常思索「怎麼樣才是活著？」的他，對這個深沉的大哉問，有一個頗富哲學意味的答案，「追求這個問題的答案，就是問題的答案。」

[philosophy] Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

[thoughts]

E4: PROP. 67. 
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Proof.
A free man is one who lives under the guidance of reason, who is not led by fear , but who directly desires that which is good, in other words, who strives to act, to live, and to preserve his being on the basis of seeking his own true advantage; wherefore such an one thinks of nothing less than of death, but his wisdom is a meditation of life. 

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Spinoza/Texts/Spinoza/e4h.htm