Hi,
I am a regular guy who has been radically changed by reading TMFL. Many thanks to MJD for writing this book. I am super grateful for the it and the way that it has put my past few years into perspective. I'll just dive in.
My reality got majorly F*cked around when I was fired from my job at Harvard in October 2017. I was a research technician for 2 years and 9 months, working in one of the best neuroscience labs at the university. I was working on a fascinating question that made my 6/7 or 7/7 day work weeks tolerable. What is the neural seed of motivation, and how does it use time to manipulate motivation? That was my project, and along with my colleagues we may have discovered the protein that causes information about the passage of time to alter motivation. The molecular clock per se, that specifically times motivated behaviors. I will be an author on a manuscript detailing this.
In addition to figuring that stuff out, I was able to discover some other things as a side project that got my professor 2.7 million dollars in funding. My research was solely responsible for this funding. Despite this, he seemed to begin to view me as an enemy. He is a genius, but was always unstable and filled with hate.
I decided to take some time off and got overpaid about 2000 dollars during this time (3 months off). I am still unsure of whether this was my fault or HR's. I was never allowed to get to the bottom of this, just fired. I made a lot of mistakes in terms of my communications with my ex-boss as well. For example, when I sent an email trying to apologize, it was perceived as a threat. I could have done a better job of explaining myself, or never said anything. I was fired for this and the money thing. I was floored by how minuscule I was being forced to feel despite the massive amount that I felt that I had accomplished during my time there. I learned that the slow lane doesn't care about your worth, just that you remain spineless. Now, I am viewing this as a positive. The event that jerked me out of a permanent slowlane. In addition, I learned how to work harder than I ever thought possible for myself.
After this I was determined to change things and stop being a subservient little pawn. I read the MFL and shortly afterward, I had an idea that I think could contribute a massive amount of value to the community that surrounds my favorite sport / hobby. It is a training product that could make training far more accessible for committed athletes who are willing to work to be good at the sport. I think this could be my vehicle to generating value for the world and changing my life into one of self reliance and independence. I am speaking with a prototyping company, and have run a survey about the product. To my delight, 83% of the 41 respondents said they would be interested in purchasing the product I thought of! I know it is still extremely early but this seems promising given that this is my first attempt at something like this.
In addition, in May I am attending the coding bootcamp, AppAcademy. I am determined to learn coding so that I have way more potential to create in the future. AppAcademy is based on accepting a job offer after the program, so I will have to decide between the job and the entrepreneurial life or both very soon.
I am reading Unscripted now and it is also amazing. I can't stop listening to the audiobook. I will log my future progress and do my best to contribute my experiences to the forum, for others to learn from.
I am a regular guy who has been radically changed by reading TMFL. Many thanks to MJD for writing this book. I am super grateful for the it and the way that it has put my past few years into perspective. I'll just dive in.
My reality got majorly F*cked around when I was fired from my job at Harvard in October 2017. I was a research technician for 2 years and 9 months, working in one of the best neuroscience labs at the university. I was working on a fascinating question that made my 6/7 or 7/7 day work weeks tolerable. What is the neural seed of motivation, and how does it use time to manipulate motivation? That was my project, and along with my colleagues we may have discovered the protein that causes information about the passage of time to alter motivation. The molecular clock per se, that specifically times motivated behaviors. I will be an author on a manuscript detailing this.
In addition to figuring that stuff out, I was able to discover some other things as a side project that got my professor 2.7 million dollars in funding. My research was solely responsible for this funding. Despite this, he seemed to begin to view me as an enemy. He is a genius, but was always unstable and filled with hate.
I decided to take some time off and got overpaid about 2000 dollars during this time (3 months off). I am still unsure of whether this was my fault or HR's. I was never allowed to get to the bottom of this, just fired. I made a lot of mistakes in terms of my communications with my ex-boss as well. For example, when I sent an email trying to apologize, it was perceived as a threat. I could have done a better job of explaining myself, or never said anything. I was fired for this and the money thing. I was floored by how minuscule I was being forced to feel despite the massive amount that I felt that I had accomplished during my time there. I learned that the slow lane doesn't care about your worth, just that you remain spineless. Now, I am viewing this as a positive. The event that jerked me out of a permanent slowlane. In addition, I learned how to work harder than I ever thought possible for myself.
After this I was determined to change things and stop being a subservient little pawn. I read the MFL and shortly afterward, I had an idea that I think could contribute a massive amount of value to the community that surrounds my favorite sport / hobby. It is a training product that could make training far more accessible for committed athletes who are willing to work to be good at the sport. I think this could be my vehicle to generating value for the world and changing my life into one of self reliance and independence. I am speaking with a prototyping company, and have run a survey about the product. To my delight, 83% of the 41 respondents said they would be interested in purchasing the product I thought of! I know it is still extremely early but this seems promising given that this is my first attempt at something like this.
In addition, in May I am attending the coding bootcamp, AppAcademy. I am determined to learn coding so that I have way more potential to create in the future. AppAcademy is based on accepting a job offer after the program, so I will have to decide between the job and the entrepreneurial life or both very soon.
I am reading Unscripted now and it is also amazing. I can't stop listening to the audiobook. I will log my future progress and do my best to contribute my experiences to the forum, for others to learn from.
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