Turning Dreaming into Doing - A Life Manual for Nerds • Lars Klint • YOW! 2022

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2022. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Lars Klint - Senior Developer Advocate at Pluralsight @LarsKlintTech RESOURCES https://twitter.com/larsklint https://linkedin.com/in/lklint ABSTRACT What separates success from mediocrity? How do you turn that brilliant idea into reality? Why is everyone else so successful? Questions of how to shape your life are never simple to answer and they always present more problems once you try. In this talk Lars provides simple, yet hard answers to many of the questions we want answered to succeed in life. Based on decades of soul searching, failures, wrong decisions and a mountain of hard work, Lars shares all the nuggets of what works and what doesn’t. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:06 Disclaimer 02:50 Today is gonna e a good day 05:27 Questions 08:58 Have you got dreams? 10:35 Want more time? 18:55 Be intentional 29:24 What are your goals? 32:58 Own your mistakes 36:00 Adversity & "the birds" 39:55 Get a mentor...or two 41:39 Friends 44:31 Plan 45:57 Review 46:14 Hard work 48:04 Go all in 49:14 Change one thing right now 49:32 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/sydney-2022/sessions/2395/turning-dreaming-into-doing-a-life-manual-for-nerds RECOMMENDED BOOKS Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow • https://amzn.to/2XmJEtf Thaler & Sunstein • Nudge • https://amzn.to/3CglrmX Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational • https://amzn.to/3lyDBd7 Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded • https://amzn.to/3tL8GxB Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction • https://amzn.to/3EO8Bi7 Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge • https://amzn.to/3yhxJu9 Nir Eyal • Indistractable • https://amzn.to/3EE3Pn9 Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now • https://amzn.to/39yjS7r Linda Rising • Design Patterns in Communications Software • https://amzn.to/2XsxDCg https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Nudge #Psychology #Behavior #Decisions #JustDoIt #LarsKlint #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1