No video for today?

[martins name]

@Leo Gura I need my fix

[Leo Gura]

A bit of a hiccup. It's coming soon.

[St Clair]

Ya'll need a video on how to be patient!

 

[Pernani]

4 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I’d like to see a video on Life Purpose.  What happened to Life Purpose videos?  People need to hear more about Life Purpose.

I would love this even if I already got the course

[Osm]

Ahahhaha people are addicted worse than me

[Joseph Maynor]

7 minutes ago, Osm said:

Ahahhaha people are addicted worse than me

Distinguish between addiction and expectation.  

Edited August 6, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Osm]

2 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Distinguish between addiction and expectation.  

Distinguish between a joke and a death threat.

[Torkys]

I thought Leo died again ?

[Joseph Maynor]

3 hours ago, Osm said:

Distinguish between a joke and a death threat.

You stretched to try to ‘one up’ me.  Read what I said again.  Calling something an addiction when you’ve set up the expectation sounds like a convenient Ego Defense.  I wouldn’t say my boss is addicted to getting my work-product when it’s due.  No, they expect it, and when I breach that expectation, I don’t get to accuse them of being addicted to receiving my work-product on time.  That ship don’t sail.  That’s a way for the Ego to try to save face.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Joseph Maynor]

MANAGING OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILL TO HAVE FOR CAREER  — AND YOU’RE NOT BORN WITH THIS SKILL, IT’S AN AWARENESS YOU’LL AMASS OVER TIME THROUGH THE 'SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS'

Just keep people in the loop.  If the work-product is gonna be late, tell people straight-up it’s gonna be a day or two late.  Don’t leave people hanging.  That way people can go do something else with their day and not be looking for the work-product.  Managing expectations poorly causes a lot of needless consternation.  I learned this the hard way in my career.  It’s a tough one to learn.  It’s hard to be sensitive to breaching other people’s expectations until you’re on the receiving end of a breach of expectations yourself.  Then you have awareness of how it made you feel and you can be sensitive to that happening to others.  And I get it, when you’re stressed to try to get a project done, it’s not always on the top of your mind to worry about managing other people’s expectations.  But you can piss people off inadvertently very easily, when a simple heads-up note can put out that fire when it’s small.  I’ve poisoned the well at prior jobs by mismanaging expectations.  It wasn’t what I was concerned with.  But now I realize it’s the most important thing to be concerned with.  It’s a systems issue.  Nobody is gonna be happy missing a meal, but it makes it much more palatable to know why you’re missing a meal and when you can expect the next meal.  If you leave someone waiting at a table drumming their fork and knife staring at an empty plate, that just pisses them off.  It’s basically shitting where you eat.  Proactive communication is the best way to avoid the undesired outcome of causing breach of expectations in people who are expecting something from you at a certain time.  You do this too often with the people you work with and you can really poison the well at work.  It can turn into a really nasty breach of trust kind of issue.  I know this firsthand from experience.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[DocHoliday]

Thanks a lot @Joseph Maynor for those wise words that, unfortunately, nobody asked for. Also, no one ever tried to one-up you, it was just a facetious remark and you apparently took it too literal once again. 

[martins name]

@Leo Gura it would be nice if you could tell the forum and set a new deadline. Maybe write a one of them posts on youtube. A lot of people have worked it in to their Sunday schedule somehow to watch the new vid. A heads up could let people adjust their schedule. Some people even worry that it's because something happened to you. 

[Harvey]

18 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Leo just wants to test you who have addiction towards his video most probably we failed including me ... 

 

 

[martins name]

@Harvey A true zen master speaks in riddles and contradicts himself. Showing you that life itself is a paradox and a strangeloop.

[Paulus Amadeus]

Leo works in mysterious ways.

[Colin]

The reality of the matter is that expectation and addiction are highly related. Pavlov anyone?

[Rilles]

but addiction and habit are different, addiction has withdrawal symptoms, you guys are not sweating and shaking are you...?

[Soulbass]

each video is a new "bonus"

as long as leo is alive, everything is alright

[Paulus Amadeus]

@Soulbass Yeah we should be super fucking greatful already. So much gold this man has delivered to us. 

[Colin]

@Rilles nah addiction as most people use it is highly related to habit. "hardcore" addiction is just an extreme case usually with dangerous substances.