How Goals Can Distract You From Success
In this blog post, I explore how goals might actually distract you from success and where you should place your focus instead. I apply this to relationships, careers, education, and sports.
Roger Osorio
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How to Hack Your Ability to Learn Quickly
I recently started reading The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, a book about unlocking the neurological secrets of developing skills in sports, art, music, math, and just about anything. In this blog post I discuss the insights I have learned so far and how I tested them with my own personal experiment.
5 Steps to Planning for Success
I’ve learned something over and over again. It seems no matter how much I plan for success, it never quite happens how I planned. In fact, my success turns out better than I planned. To be honest, some things went according to plan, however, with reflection I realized that I never planned things quite as […]
How to Gain Clarity and See New Opportunities
A couple of weeks ago I had a great conversation with a friend about finding the clarity to see new opportunities. Thinking back to when I made my decision to leave my corporate career, I really could not have ever imagined the journey that I have been on for the last four years. Although I […]
How Close Are You To Success?
In this blog post, I write about my interview with Clipboard + founder, Kevin Merlini. He shares his experiences in putting together the start-up team and the lessons he learned along the way.
Why Learning Requires Trust
Recently my good friend Punit and I decided to take up golf. I started out by going to the driving range and renting a club. A week later I bought my first set of golf clubs. Two weeks after that I’m having a great time with the sport. This has been an incredibly valuable experience […]
Why are More Mistakes Critical to Success?
Mistakes are often avoided for fear of failure and other undesirable consequences. However, mistakes are the feedback by which we learn how to improve our techniques and approaches. Mistakes are the building blocks to success and avoiding them directly affects your chances of greater success.
Making Mistakes Like You Really Mean It!
Failing is a part of learning, however, we often hesitate to do it. We fear failing big and minimize the effort so any pending failure is minimized as well. In this blog post, I discuss a personal experience where I learned the power of making mistakes like I meant to and how it lead to spectacular results.
New Experience #5 – Reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
This is my 5th experience of my new year’s resolution. For this experience I decided to read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, international best seller. The book was incredible and helped me reflect on my own journey to realize my passion in life. The story helped put things into a larger perspective.
Why are Mistakes Necessary?
Mistakes are often penalized in our current educational system. For instance, you raise your hand with a wrong answer and it’s often followed by “wrong, anyone else?” Or you receive a grade on a test without ever exploring your mistakes in depth to learn what was done incorrectly and how it could have been approached […]