The Hi-Level Mindset is a philosophy, it’s a wavelength to apply to your everyday thoughts and regiment. The five rules that he lives by:1. Remain Positive2. Always be intentional with your desires3. Discipline = Excellence4. Remove Negative People5. Create a legacy.

The Hi-Level Mindset

Cordae Makes His TED Talk Debut: Sharing his "Hi Level Mindset" for realizing untapped potential.

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Personal Development

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Motivation & Inspiration

Cordae Makes His TED Talk Debut

Navy SEALs are the most elite warriors on earth.How do they become that way?By developing an unbreakable mindset. But what is a mindset? In simple terms, mindset is how you view and process the world around you. It influences how we think, feel and act in any situation.Our mindset is impacting us (for better or worse) every moment of every day, whether we realize it or not.

An Unbreakable Mindset

“Be patient” is the first pillar of mindset. We must be patient in 3 ways:<ul><li>with ourselves</li><li>with our teammates</li><li>with the process</li></ul>

The Three Pillars Of Mindset: Being Patient

We’re going to make mistakes.It’s part of the process of growth.When we do, patience will help us:• overcome it• learn from it• continue on

Be Patient with Ourselves

Our teammates are human. They will also make mistakes. Getting frustrated with a teammate doesn’t help them or you.If you want to be a great teammate, start by being patient.

Being Patient With Our Teammates

Everything is a process. We can’t achieve a goal on the first step. We can’t master a new skill on Day 1 of practising it. Being patient with the process helps us be consistent.Relentless consistency over time wins.

Being Patient With The Process

We can apply patience every day in countless ways.Start with yourself. What are you working towards?Give yourself permission to be patient.Then start being more patient with others.

Applying Patience

“Be present” is the second pillar of mindset.SEAL training is notoriously difficult.But SEALs often say the same thing: There’s no single element that’s extraordinarily difficult.Almost everyone can complete each one.It’s the totality of it that breaks people.

Being Present

When do you think most people quit in SEAL training? Hell Week? No.Most people quit in one of the *easiest* evolutions.It’s a 1-mile beach run. No time requirement. You just have to look like you’re running.The catch: you don’t know when it will end. Run until the instructors tell you to stop.So why do so many quit when all they need to do is lightly jog?Simple: they fail to stay present.Instead of thinking about the next step, they wonder when it will end. They tell themselves they can’t do this for hours longer.They become mentally broken.

The Secret: The Part Where Most Trainees Quit SEAL Training

Focus on what you’re doing right now.Not later today, not tomorrow, not next week.Practice training your mind to be in THIS moment.You’ll fail - it’s okay. Just bring yourself back.Practice this consistently, and you’ll quickly develop the muscle.

How To Stay Present

“Be deliberate” is the third pillar or mindset.Being deliberate means exercising self-control. We must be deliberate in 2 ways:• with our actions• with our speech

Being Deliberate

For SEALs, this is obvious. Every physical action can mean life or death in combat. Thankfully for most of us, that’s not the case. But our actions still matter. They keep us safe, healthy and productive.

Be Deliberate With Your Actions

The spoken word is powerful.Most SEALs waste few words.They're extremely intentional in what they say.This has been trained into them. When things get hard, the power of our speech is amplified.Our tongue is our rudder.

Being Deliberate With Your Speech

Pay attention to what you do. • What do you eat? • How do you recharge?• How do you manage your time? Pay attention to your words. • Do they serve you or others? • Do they supply energy vs. drain it?• Are they effective?Be intentional.

How To Be Deliberate

So, that’s how Navy SEALs teach mindset.1. Be patient2. Be present3. Be deliberateIt's simple, not easy.But if it works in the most high-risk environments on earth, it will work for you.

The Bottom Line

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

An Unbreakable Mindset: What Navy Seals Do

Teams are more creative when members recognize and embrace differences, and systematically explore members' opposing perspectives.To be really creative, the paradox mindset must go hand in hand with what we call epistemic motivation.Team members must be motivated to thoroughly understand the task and their competing perspectives and demands, as well as how these are interconnected, and then integrate their ideas in the best way possible

Creativity in Teams

The paradox mindset helps team members surface their latent differences, in the form of representational gaps, and acknowledge the tension while seeing the differences as a strength and an opportunity to come up with good ideas.Being epistemically motivated ensures that they explore those ideas thoroughly before deciding on the best solution.

Teams are more successful if they embrace internal differences and explore conflicting ideas instead of glossing over them.

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Teamwork

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Creativity

Paradox Mindset: The Source of Remarkable Creativity in Teams

Music often feels like it is part of our subconscious. It is constantly playing in the background, at the coffee shop, in the elevator, and working from home. In 2017, Nielsen estimated that Americans spend over 32 hours a week on average listening to music. It's then not a surprise that we remember music and can easily recall lyrics and melodies.

Why we can recall music 

Many of us can hear music in our minds, named musical or auditory imagery. It can happen voluntarily, such as thinking about a song, or it can happen involuntarily - when the song pops into your mind without you trying to recall any music, called an earworm. About 90% of people have an earworm once a week and a third of people have an earworm once a day. Those who engage with music more often experience more earworms.

Earworms

<ul><li>One reason why music has become so intertwined with how we express and comfort ourselves is because listening to music releases dopamine in the brain.</li><li>Music awakens our memory. When we can identify pieces of music, we can bring back memories associated with the music.</li><li>Music can also have an emotional impact. Even if you identify a short piece of music, you have a musical imagery experience that triggers the memory of the whole piece of music and its associated memories. </li></ul>

Music represents who we are, how we feel, and what we remember

Psychologists say it's no surprise that we have such a strong memory for music and can easily recall lyrics and melodies, even if we haven’t heard them in years.

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Music

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Science & Nature

Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else

To establish and run a successful business, start out by building the following skills:<ul><li>Be proactive: This refers to your ability to “make things happen.” Proactive founders are highly engaged in the “big picture” of the company and have the ability to turn their dreams into reality.</li><li>Be agile: Agility is your ability to adopt a flexible mindset. Especially in times of uncertainty or crises, an agile mindset is critical to decision-making because it helps you adapt yourself quickly to a changing situation.</li></ul>

Starting a venture

A company can continue to grow as long as the leaders are open to learning on the job, acquiring information as your company, the industry, or the world evolves, and adapting to new and challenging situations every day. It’s this mindset that helps companies evolve, expand, and reach newer markets and audiences. When you assume that you know everything there is to know about your business, you’ll end up building a culture that’s resistant to change and slower to grow.

An active approach towards learning

This refers to your ability to acknowledge mistakes when they occur and use them as valuable lessons about yourself and your business. Doing so will help you see the gaps in your business, lean on people with more knowledge or experience, and course-correct as you move forward. Moreover, it will free you from being over-critical or fixating on things that may hold you back.

An active approach towards making mistakes

Steve Blank proposed a theoretical model for a startup team that includes founding members with the following core skills: visionary, hacker/hardware, hustler, designer.<ul><li>The visionary is “the person with the dream,” the one who has the inspiration and charisma to draw others to the idea. </li><li>The hacker is the “expert” who makes the product or service. </li><li>The hustler is usually someone who can manage everything from operations to sales.</li><li>The designer is usually the UI/UX specialist, someone who can bridge the gap between the client, the consumer or audience, and the technology.</li></ul>

Building a strong team

Don’t look at leadership as just a competency. Rather, it’s a relationship that you build with those who work with you and for you. You cannot impose this relationship but have to earn it over time — through daily acts of checking in with your team, communicating your vision, and caring for your employees.You may be great at setting goals but are you in touch with your employee’s realities? Ask yourself: Do my employees feel reassured in the company’s vision? Am I communicating with clarity? Are there concerns that I may be overseeing? How do I build trust among different teams?

Becoming a great leader

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Entrepreneurship

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Startups

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Leadership & Management

Ask an Expert: What Skills Do I Need to Run a Startup?

<ul><li>Class Inheritance: A class is like a blueprint — a description of the object to be created. Classes inherit from classes and create subclass relationships: hierarchical class taxonomies.</li><li>Prototypal Inheritance: A prototype is a working object instance. Objects inherit directly from other objects.</li></ul>

What’s the Difference Between Class & Prototypal Inheritance?

<ul><li>The tight coupling problem (class inheritance is the tightest coupling available in oo design), which leads to the next one…</li><li>The fragile base class problem</li><li>Inflexible hierarchy problem (eventually, all evolving hierarchies are wrong for new uses)</li><li>The duplication by necessity problem (due to inflexible hierarchies, new use cases are often shoe-horned in by duplicating, rather than adapting existing code)</li><li>The Gorilla/banana problem (What you wanted was a banana, but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana, and the entire jungle).</li></ul>

Class Inheritance Causes Many Problems

<ul><li>Concatenative inheritance: The process of inheriting features directly from one object to another by copying the source objects properties.&nbsp;</li><li>Prototype delegation: If a property is not found on the object, the lookup is delegated to the delegate prototype, which may have a link to its own delegate prototype, and so on up the chain until you arrive at `Object.prototype`, which is the root delegate.&nbsp;</li><li>Functional inheritance: In JavaScript, any function can create an object. When that function is not a constructor (or `class`), it’s called a factory function.&nbsp;</li></ul>

There Are Three Kinds of Prototypal OO

Objects are frequently used in JavaScript, and understanding how to work with them effectively will be a huge win for your productivity. In fact, poor OO design can potentially lead to project…

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Computer Science

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Artificial Intelligence

Master the JavaScript Interview: What’s the Difference Between Class & Prototypal Inheritance?

In order to define Blockchain, it is better to explain what problem it solves. In the current system, transfering funds involve a third party (a bank). All a bank does is register an entry. Neither you nor the recipient controls or owns the entry in the register.There is a way to maintain the register among ourselves without involving a middleman - with blockchain.

Blockchain: What problem it solves

The requirement of this method is that there must be enough people who would like not to depend on a third-party.  Only then this group can maintain the register of transactions on their own.

How Blockchain works 

You need a few individuals who want to give up on banks or any third party. By mutual agreement, they have details of each other's accounts without knowing the identity of the other parties.Everybody holds an empty folder with themselves to start with. As they progress, all these individuals will keep adding pages to their currently empty folders. And this collection of pages will form the register that tracks the transactions.

An Empty Folder

In a transaction, one person tells everyone in the group that he wants to transfer money to another person. Everyone writes the transaction down, see that the person can indeed transfer the money and has enough balance.With time, more people want to transfer money to others. Whenever anyone wants to make a transaction, they announce it to everyone, and everyone writes it down on their page. This continues until everybody runs out of space to record transactions, then they take a new page and start again.

When A Transaction Happens

Before the page is put away in the folder, it is sealed with a unique key that everyone in the network agrees upon so that no one can make changes. By sealing it with encryption, no one can make any changes to it. This sealing of the page is the crux of this method. Blockchain can be viewed in the following way: Think of a single page as a Block of transactions. The folder is the Chain of pages (Blocks).

Putting Away The Page

Unless you’re hiding under the rock, I am sure you’d have heard of Bitcoins and Blockchain. After all, they are the trending and media’s favorite topics these days — the buzzwords of the year. Even…

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Cryptocurrency

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Economics

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Money & Investments

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Technology & The Future

WTF is The Blockchain?

Just before his death, Blaise Pascal was hashing out private thoughts that would later be released as a collection by the name of Pensées.  The book is mostly a mathematician's case for choosing a life of faith and belief, but more unusual is his clear ruminations on what it means to be human. Pascal writes that we fear silence, we dread boredom and instead opt for aimless distraction.. The issue at the root, essentially, is that we never learn the art of solitude.

The Art of Solitude

We now live in a world where we’re connected to everything except ourselves. The less comfortable you are with solitude, the more likely it is that you won’t know yourself. Then, you'll spend even more time avoiding it by turning your focus elsewhere, such as technologies. Very few people in today's world are really self-aware. We are increasingly out of touch with who we are, and that’s a problem.

The Perils of Being Connected

Our rejection of solitude is really an aversion to boredom. It's not that we are addicted to a TV because it is satisfying, but we're addicted to the state of not being bored. We can't imagine just being rather than doing. It makes us search for entertainment or company. We fear facing ourselves. The only way to avoid being ruined by this fear is to face it. When you cross the initial barrier of solitude, you find that being alone isn't so bad. You become intimately familiar with your environment and discover novelty in things you didn't know were novel.

Boredom as a Mode of Stimulation

Without realizing the value of solitude, we are overlooking the fact that, once the fear of boredom is faced, it can actually provide its own stimulation.  The only way to face it is to make time, whether every day or every week, to just sit — with our thoughts, our feelings, with a moment of stillness. Without knowing ourselves, it’s almost impossible to find a healthy way to interact with the world around us.

The value of solitude

>All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Before dying at the age of 39, Blaise Pascal made huge contributions to both physics and mathematics, notably in fluids, geometry, and probability. This work, however, would influence more than just…

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Remote Work

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The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You

Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.A career in Javascript implicitly means you should also be comfortable with Html and CSS, which are basically what web pages are made of.

JavaScript

This is a language for developing native iOS or macOS applications.It is considered an improvement in terms of usability and performance compared to Objective-C — the language used for Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems.

Swift

Python is a general purpose language that you can find almost anywhere today. You’ll find it in web applications, desktop Apps, network Servers, machine learning, media tools and more. It’s used by big players like NASA or Google,

Python

Popular career paths with Java are Backend developer, big data developer, embedded systems engineer, or Android developer. If you are comfortable with Java, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll find the right place. If you are comfortable with Java, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll find the right place.

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C++ is a highly efficient and flexible language, first created back in 1985. Plenty of large systems have been created and maintained successfully using it. Getting comfortable with C++ would give you a deeper understanding of how languages work.

<ul><li>Ruby is a high-level language which aims to achieve a lot with few lines of clean, readable code. Well-written Ruby code almost looks like sentences written in plain English. </li><li>It’s a great choice for the first language to learn, as beginners typically pick it up fast and enjoy it along the way. </li><li>A career with Ruby on rails is definitely a great choice as the framework is “Optimized for programmer happiness” and is also well-paid.</li></ul>

 Ruby

First appearing in 2010 and has already gained remarkable popularity. The main difference is that rust is memory-safe. One of the most common faults you could find in C code is dangling Pointers, buffer Overflows, or any other kind of memory errors. The language is being developed by a household name in it, Mozilla.

Rust

<ul><li>Elixir was inspired by Erlang, a language developed back in the 1980s by Ericsson. </li><li>The biggest drawback of Erlang for developers is the often Quirky syntax and usability plus the lack of intuitive package management. </li><li>Elixir is mainly used for web development, and career options are typically well-paid but limited. The language is currently at third place worldwide in Stackoverflow’s 2017 survey.</li></ul>

Elixir

Scala stands for Scalable language and is one of the many attempts to “rewrite Java” while improving its drawbacks. Big companies like Linkedin, Twitter, and the Guardian use it in their Codebases. Scala ranks high in salary surveys, making the top ten worldwide.

Scala

If you find yourself interested in this field, R is a stable and profitable career choice.If you are looking for free courses to try out any of the above-mentioned languages, you can check out our advice on choosing from the best tutorials.

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Software Engineering

Here are the best programming languages to learn in 2018

Talking about money within the family is still taboo in many places, yet the discussion doesn’t have to be dead serious.Taking the time to talk to the family about the financial situation and how to manage them where everyone gets to have a say is setting up everyone to contribute to the family’s financial goals and better money handling as they grow.If you’re unsure how to discuss finances with your family, you can read the Money as You Grow guide from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a resource.

Talking Money as a Family

Allowances as powerful learning tools for children growing up. It gives your child the opportunity to manage their own money while still having you as a guide during the times they falter.However, with this in mind it is important to know your kid and how much allowance you can shell out. Moreover, the terms of the allowance must be clear-cut: Will their allowance be based off on their behavior, chores, or neither? Should they save a specific amount of their allowance?Knowing all these boundaries you are teaching the children involved thus setting them up for financial literacy.

Allowances Vary

Saving is one of the most important financial habits to instill early on, in fact, the earlier the better.Kids can start learning how to save money if you teach them how to save using a piggy bank or a give-spend-save bank. Through this they can start thinking about goal-setting as well as helping out other people should they choose to do so.As they get older, you can look for a bank that’s kid-friendly and take them along as a teachable moment.

Save Early, Save ASAP

There’s no such thing as “too late”Children are impacted by their parent’s finances and financial decisions regardless whether they like it or not.When parents are transparent about their money choices, they’re teaching their children the basics or even so much more. Children then begin to understand the power money holds and it also serves as an opportunity for them to learn from your mistakes.

It's Never Too Late To Teach Children Finances

Money can feel like a taboo topic in a lot of households, but talking about it regularly can take the awkwardness out of it.Kids see and do everything that we do, and that's true when it comes to money, says financial expert Jen Hemphill.In this episode, Hemphill shares her top tips for financial literacy for kids and families, including how to start those conversations and creating a healthy money mindset for everyone.

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