After Work, Is What Determines Your Future! Spend One Hour Per Day Doing These 5 Things and Your Life Will Change Forever! - Kalyana Sundaram - LinkedIn

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After work, is what determines your future! Spend one hour per day doing these 5 things and your life will change forever! | Kalyana Sundaram | LinkedIn
Kalyana Sundaram
Business Development Executive - ERP Services(ROW)
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After work, is what determines your future! Spend

one hour per day doing these 5 things and your life
will change forever!
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You finish work at 6 pm, go to bed at 12 midnight.

Within these six hours, how do you spend them?
Watching TV?
In fact, the activities you do between 6 am and 12 midnight,
the importance of it is beyond your imagination.
Too many people believe that,
your career is determined by the 8 hours of hard work and effort you put at work,
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and your future and career progression depend on the boss and the company.
But the reality is that for most people, this thing, you are on your own..
Read on
Cultivation, its forever dependent by yourself.

If you found yourself not progressing in life,
you cannot blame and put the responsibility on your company for not grooming
you.
1. What you do every night is important

My major in college was marketing, but I expect to become a designer.
So I practiced day and night,
picking up some freelance work to improve my design skills.
It took me a long time.
When I became a boss, I no longer need to involve myself in design work,
So I went back to the Marketing field.
Every day, when my children are sleeping,
I began learning to gain more knowledge, this again took me a long time,
But I begin to realise my returns.
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If I rely on my working hours to gain skills,

then I will never have become a creative director and a product manager,
or like today, teaching MBA students on Marketing.
What I rely on, is myself giving myself lessons.
And the most successful people I knew, walked the same path as I am.
I have a friend who is a History graduate,
but he is interested in technical sales,
In the day, he does telemarketing, at night he learns how to code,
Finally, he became the vice president of sales in a startup company.
Now, hes a CTO.
I have another friend, he received a degree in political science.
But hes very interested in entrepreneurship.
he learnt a lot of knowledge on how to start up a company,
eventually, he founded a company and sold it,
Now he has reaped the rewards.
For them, what they do between 6 pm till 12 midnight,

is what determined their future.
Clearly, we need to balance life and work.
If you have a wife and children, every night, you have to stay with them.
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Even if you are single, you also need a reasonable allocation of time to go to the
gym, to meet with friends, or be alone to meditate and so on.
Of course, watching movies, playing games is good.
But there are things you do not need to do.
For example, watching the new season of a Netflix drama,
14 hours per week watching television (This is the average amount of time
watching television).
The time spent playing the game Candy Crush.
Or spending time stalking your high school alumni on Facebook,

it does not seem to be good.
So what should you do?
2. Read more, anything will do!

My college mentor was born in Alabama,
A poor African family.
He was admitted to West Point Military Academy, and he became the first person
in the family to go college.
Before going to Havard for his MBA, hes a trained officer.
When I met him, he has already developed his career in the city of Colorado
Springs.
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I asked him, whats his biggest success?

He replied, because he kept the habit of reading,
and he never stopped.
He believed that if you want to get what you want in life,
knowledge is the key.
He often asked his interviewees what book are they reading now,
the excellent ones can give an answer immediately.
Reading can give you a good headstart,
this is often what your peers cannot obtain.
Compared to others,
you are more likely to know other industries strategies and tactics,
and that may be helpful to your company.
You can transfer your knowledge within the organization,

create new possibilities for your company.
Moreover, your conversation topics will become more interesting.
Anthony Robbins said:

If you spend one hour a day to learn about a topic,
a year later, in this regard,
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the knowledge you gain will be more than 99.999% of the worlds people.
Even if you have 30 minutes every night,
each week you can easily read a book.
You may not be an expert, but I promise,
youll know more than what your peers know.
3. Do some projects
You can apply the knowledge learnt to real work scenario,
this is only an ideal state.
If your company did not give you this opportunity,
create opportunities for yourself.
You can do some volunteer projects. They can bring you fame.
Working with a team,
youll understand how things work.
In the practical application of the industry,
and how it ultimately affect actual customers.
Youll learn how to perform the task and meet deadlines,
and get feedbacks on what you are doing,
and benefit from it.
When you are not strong enough, these experience may not have any value to
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you.
But you are still a novice.
these experiences are far more valuable than the miserable pay you are getting.
If you can really convince others of your pockets of fruits of labour,
Then go try it. But do not let these private jobs affect your work.
4. Actively build your connections

In your career path,
a strong network of connections will make everything accelerate.
If you have not set up your own personal connections,
youll need to divide a portion of your time to do this.
A strong network of relationships, can enable you:
contact smart friends, and learn their opinions
get information and knowledge that are difficult to obtain
help the company look for more potential partners
or income generating opportunities
Go get to know your work colleague or boss..
If you are an entrepreneur,

your network connections will be your early customers,
your staffs are a source of capital
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After work, is what determines

your future! Spend one hour per
day doing these 5 things and
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you should find some inner circles.

There are many small groups which are highly relevant to your career.
You should try to integrate into these circles.
Every week, you can drink coffee together with new friends,
go drinking or have breakfast.
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You can also look into everyones career developments on LinkedIn.

And establish a network with mentors in those professional industries.
They may be your next job employer, who knows?
Your connections will be your most powerful asset in the workplace.
Since you have time to watch The Voice of China,
you have time to build a social network.
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you can switch off like switching off your computer at your workplace, switch off
your brain.
But you can also do something,
make you smarter, stronger, have a wider network of people.
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From the start tonight, take an hour a day to do these things,

I guarantee that after a year,
your career, and life will change.
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Bert Danner
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Outstanding piece. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." While not
thinking about the next email or task during work hours, being able to
actively dream and do tangible things to attain those dreams in our free time
tends to be a higher predictor of the future.
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The human brain is a natural wonder. It produces more than 50,000 thoughts
each day and 100,000 chemical reactions each second. With this amount of
processing power, you would think our judgment would be highly accurate, but
thats far from the case.
Our judgments are often inaccurate because the brain relies on cognitive biases
over hard evidence. Cognitive bias is the tendency to make irrational judgments in
consistent patterns.
Researchers have found that cognitive bias wreaks havoc by forcing people to
make poor, irrational judgments:
A Queensland University study found that blonde women earned, on
average, 7% higher salaries than redheads and brunettes.
A Duke study found that people with mature faces experienced more career
success than those with baby faces. Baby faces were defined as those with
small chins, wider cheeks, and bigger eyes. Mature faces were those with
bigger chins, narrower facial features, and smaller eyes.
A Yale study found that female scientists were not only more likely to hire
male scientists but they also paid them $4,000 more than female scientists.
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Its highly unlikely that the people in these studies actually wanted to pay blondes
more money, enable people with mature faces to succeed at the expense of those
with baby faces, or hire male scientists disproportionally and pay them more
money. Our unconscious biases are often so strong that they lead us to act in ways
that are inconsistent with reason as well as our values and beliefs.
Lets explore some of the most common types of cognitive biases that entrench
themselves in our lives. Awareness is the best way to beat these biases, so pay
careful attention to how they influence you.
The decoy effect. This occurs when someone believes they have two options,
but you present a third option to make the second one feel more palatable. For
example, you visit a car lot to consider two cars, one listed for $30,000 and the
other for $40,000. At first, the $40,000 car seems expensive, so the salesman
shows you a $65,000 car. Suddenly, the $40,000 car seems reasonable by
comparison. This salesman is preying on your decoy biasthe decoy being the
$65,000 car that he knows you wont buy.
Affect heuristic. Affect heuristic is the human tendency to base our decisions
on our emotions. For example, take a study conducted at Shukutoku University,
Japan. Participants judged a disease that killed 1,286 people out of every 10,000
as being more dangerous than one that was 24.14% fatal (despite this
representing twice as many deaths). People reacted emotionally to the image of
1,286 people dying, whereas the percentage didnt arouse the same mental
imagery and emotions.
Fundamental attribution error. This is the tendency to attribute situational
behavior to a persons fixed personality. For example, people often attribute poor
work performance to laziness when there are so many other possible
explanations. It could be the individual in question is receiving projects they
arent passionate about, their rocky home life is carrying over to their work life, or
theyre burnt out.
The ideometer effect. This refers to the fact that our thoughts can make us feel
real emotions. This is why actors envision terrible scenarios, such as the death of
a loved one, in order to make themselves cry on cue and activities such as
cataloging what youre grateful for can have such a profound, positive impact on
your wellbeing.
Confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information
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that supports our pre-existing beliefs. In other words, we form an opinion first
and then seek out evidence to back it up, rather than basing our opinions on facts.
Conservatism bias. This bias leads people to believe that pre-existing
information takes precedence over new information. Dont be quick to reject
something just because its radical or different. Great ideas usually are.
The ostrich effect. The ostrich effect is aptly named after the fact that ostriches,
when scared, literally bury their heads in the ground. This effect describes our
tendency to hide from impending problems. We may not physically bury our
heads in the ground, but we might as well. For example, if your company is
experiencing layoffs, youre having relationship issues, or you receive negative
feedback, its common to attempt to push all these problems away, rather than to
face them head on. This doesnt work and simply delays the inevitable.
Reactance. Reactance is our tendency to react to rules and regulations by
exercising our freedom. A prevalent example of this is children with overbearing
parents. Tell a teenager to do what you say because you told them so, and theyre
very likely to start breaking your rules. Similarly, employees who feel mistreated
or Big Brothered by their employers are more likely to take longer breaks, extra
sick days, or even steal from their company.
The halo effect. The halo effect occurs when someone creates a strong first
impression and that impression sticks. This is extremely noticeable in grading.
For example, often teachers grade a students first paper, and if its good, are
prone to continue giving them high marks on future papers even if their
performance doesnt warrant it. The same thing happens at work and in personal
relationships.
The horn effect. This effect is the exact opposite of the halo effect. When you
perform poorly at first, you can easily get pegged as a low-performer even if you
work hard enough to disprove that notion.
Planning fallacy. Planning fallacy is the tendency to think that we can do
things more quickly than we actually can. For procrastinators, this leads to
incomplete work, and this makes type-As overpromise and underdeliver.
The bandwagon effect. The bandwagon effect is the tendency to do what
everyone else is doing. This creates a kind of groupthink, where people run with
the first idea thats put onto the table instead of exploring a variety of options. The
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bandwagon effect illustrates how we like to make decisions based on what feels
good (doing what everyone else is doing), even if theyre poor alternatives.
Bias blind spot. If you begin to feel that youve mastered your biases, keep in
mind that youre most likely experiencing the bias blind spot. This is the tendency
to see biases in other people but not in yourself.
Bringing It All Together

Recognizing and understanding bias is invaluable because it enables you to think
more objectively and to interact more effectively with other people.
Which of these biases have you experienced? Please share your thoughts in the
comments section below, as I learn just as much from you as you do from me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the #1 bestselling
book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's
leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training, serving more than
75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into
25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has
written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, TIME, BusinessWeek, Fortune,
Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The
Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.
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If you'd like to learn how to increase your emotional intelligence (EQ), consider
taking the online Emotional Intelligence Appraisal test that's included with the
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book. Your test results will pinpoint which of the
book's 66 emotional intelligence strategies will increase your EQ the most.
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After work, is what determines your future! Spend

You finish work at 6 pm, go to bed at 12 midnight.

Cultivation, its forever dependent by yourself.

1. What you do every night is important

If I rely on my working hours to gain skills,

For them, what they do between 6 pm till 12 midnight,

The time spent playing the game Candy Crush.

Or spending time stalking your high school alumni on Facebook,

2. Read more, anything will do!

I asked him, whats his biggest success?

You can transfer your knowledge within the organization,

Anthony Robbins said:

4. Actively build your connections

If you are an entrepreneur,

rather than go home, or going to a bar,

After work, is what determines

Cognitive Biases That Really

Jabong Changes Its Business

you should find some inner circles.

This former Google exec is out

Get ready for Elon Musks next

Elon Musk plans to disrupt four

You can also look into everyones career developments on LinkedIn.

How To Answer The Question

5. The CHANGE of your LIFE starts TONIGHT

6 pm to 12 am, you go home, though physically and mentally tired,

During this time,

Rahuldeep Gill, Ph.D.

This Slimy Approach To Getting

From the start tonight, take an hour a day to do these things,

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C kirowo, Vincent Colombet, Jadesola Gbadebo, +2

Hugo Lemay, Prabhjyot Singh Mann, Sven Onnerstad, +2

Dr. Travis Bradberry

Coauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at TalentSmart

Cognitive Biases That Really Screw Things Up For

Bringing It All Together

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Cognitive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence,

Featured In Your Career

Dr. Travis Bradberry

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