Aspiration to Achievement!
Prateek Narang
Software Engineer, Instructor, Entrepreneur
Aspiration!
Achievement!
What to achieve and How to achieve?
HOW
Learning the art of becoming better!
What is your definition of Success?
- Financial Independence
- Good health
- Getting your dream job
- Building your own business/startup
Agenda
How to stay focussed & achieve success in your professional life?
- OKR Framework
- Self-Belief & Growth mindset
- Consistency
Let's learn from Successful People & Companies!
Design yourself for Success!
Lack of Focus
Lack of Focus
- Doing too many things at a same time
- Not doing "something" long enough
Focus on WHAT matters!
10,000 hour rule!
In the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" explores factors that contributed to the high levels of success of some individuals.
Gladwell repeatedly refers to the “10 000-hour rule,” asserting that the key to achieving true expertise in any skill is simply a matter of practicing, albeit in the correct way, for at least 10 000 hours.
How to set goals & track them!
OKR Framework
Objectives and key results (OKR, alternatively OKRs) is a goal setting framework used by individuals, teams, and organizations to define measurable goals and track their outcomes
Companies use OKR, including Google, Spotify, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Airbnb.
I will ________ as measured by ____________.
A proper goal has to describe both what you will achieve and how you are going to measure its achievement
An Example of Tech OKR
I will fix the website for the vast majority of people as measured by 7 out of 10 people being able to get through, a 1 second response time, and a 1% error rate
Goal Setting & Measuring
OKRs comprise an objective (a significant, concrete, clearly defined goal)
3-5 key results (measurable success criteria used to track the achievement of that goal)
Objectives are memorable qualitative descriptions of what you want to achieve. Objectives should be short, inspirational and engaging.
Key Results are a set of metrics that measure your progress towards the Objective.
All Key Results have to be quantitative and measurable
Self-belief & Growth Mindset
The Hope Experiment!
- In the 1950s, Curt Richter, a professor at Johns Hopkins,
- did a famous drowning rats psychology experiment which showed the power of hope.
Having hope & self-belief we can do much more than our capabilities
Consistency!
Persistent in doing something in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
How to remain consistent?
- Decide OKR's and track them, set small milestones
- Build accountability partners
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