Serve God Through Work

8/23/2016  Listened to Leaf Huang's preach on Youtube

1. It is not work in order to serve God,   Working is serving God
2. There is only one reason to change job: God let you move.  It's not about money or other things. don't ask for counter offer.

3.There is no success of me. God only require me faithful. Like the servant who has 5000,  go earn another 5000 to be a faithful servant.

工作中的体会

今天工作有一个peer review， 我得到好多的问题。a lot of questions about my models, and variables. let me feel the models I built were problematic. I feel bad about this. I think one of the reasons is because I dont think much on the work I am working. I basically just follow what I was told to.

SO from now on, there are some rules I will follow.

1. Think, Think, Think. Every week I need time to think what to do, ask 5 why about my model results, and questions everything.. Think deeply.

2. For all the things I do. Take the ownership. Either do it well and own it. Or don't do it.

3. When do things, take the initiative, be proactive, take the lead, take the risk and responsibility.

4. Before doing things, Write down a plan and the goal first.

5. when decide to start a thing, finish it before jump to other things!!


--- 7/20/2016 Lincoln

State of the Union 2015

Every time I watch State of the Union, I am deeply touched. I feel so blessed to living in this country. The leadership talk about everyone's needs, not only the cow in the air.

I so hope China will catch up.

Notes for Reading about being Creative, and Don't do something regreted from Sparring Mind

1. Take a walk in the middle or afternoon of the day.

2. leave something at the end of the day, so that the next day when you rise, you know exactly what you are supposed to do. Do not start the day with incubation.

3. Starting doing, not wait or dreaming.

4. the creativity does not come out from nothing. creativity only comes to you when you extensively worked on it.







1. Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life, and then trust yourself to handle what follows.

2.It could be said that trying to avoid regret is a way we internalize “looking at the wall”—becoming so focused on avoidance that we end up hitting it head on in another way: by having regrets about the things we didn’t do.

And those are often the worst regrets of all.

Book Review 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell

This review was written on 2/9/2011 on paper, and I type and post it online today.

Once time I talked with Ann You in church, she said anyone devoted 10000 hours in doing one thing, he/she must be successful. This idea is from a book 'Outliers'. At that time I was really unhappy and felt frustrated about myself. Wasting a lot of time everyday, cannot get things done one time, never accomplish my plan. I am becoming soft even without noticing that. I really need a book to inspire me and told me what & how the successful people was doing when they were not that successful. 'Outliers' is that book. It describes the successful people from a very special perspective. After reading this book, my view point of "success" change sharply.

1. Opportunity:

Every example in this book had a unique opportunity to success. Bill Gates had a chance to use the most advanced computer when he was in high school and a chance to program for a company and have a rich mom to support and find a bug in the computer lab to unlimitedly use computer in U of Washington. And the hockey players example showed even the birth date could be an opportunity. I learned everyone has and needs opportunities to success. Grab the opportunity, take a small advantage at the very beginning, it will accumulate to be a huge success at last. People catch the first opportunity, will have a high chance to take the second one, again and again. One verse in Bible says "For unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath" -- Matthew 25:29.

For myself, I realize that I am in one of the biggest opportunities in my life. I am now at USA, a free country and has a relatively fair chance to success by hard working. I am in a university, which is not too famous but still a very good one and have access to the front line in my major. I feel my experience will help me a lot sooner or later. Not everyone has chances to consult and to teach. Thank you so much Dr. Di Pierro. And Linlin is so nice to me and we are living together. I don't have to worry about her. And we won't be separate anymore. The most important, I became the son of God. He will lead me along the way. See. I have no excuses to not success. What I am supposed to do is do my best to learn knowledge, to equip myself with knowledge and real experience. 

2. 10000 hours and hard work:

Everyone needs hard working to be successful. No one becomes success by accident; even though they looks easy. From the first time Bill Joy started to program to he becomes famous in silicon valley, it is about 10000 hours. Bill Gates is the same, from a ordinary people to be famous, 10000 hours. The music band "the Beatles", before they became famous in the U.S., they had 10000 hours real performing experiences on the stage.

Dr. Wuwei Shen told me last Friday night in the church. "If you want to be successful, you must devote a lot of time in it, cannot stay on the surface", which is consistent with the 10000 hours rules. America gives me a fair chance to success by hard work. I need to work hard.

Recently, I feel I am not that young, I really have no time to waste. I must work as hard as possible nad grab the chance in the university to equip myself to find a good job and stay in US. Further more, to do sth can change the world.

3. Legacy

Admit or not, we have sth in the body which is the legacy from my parents or grand parents or the culture from the region I grew up. That could explain why people from southest could work hard to be rich and can be away from home for long time. That is from culture, it is legacy. 

I grew up in northeast of China, where people are brave and frank and honest. These are good. However, people in my home region also like talking big thing, but not taking them into action, and most of people do not want to success by work hard.

I must be aware of those downsides from the legacy. I must act act act, talking less, acting more, working hard, no delay, no excuses, and use time efficiently.

Summary

<Outliers> is the book that comes just on time, remind me to work hard, to notice the legacy and to grab the opportunities. More importantly, it makes me to realize the real situation I am actually in. I do not to be soft even when I am not starting my life journey. Work hard, grab the opportunities.

Don't forget my definition of success: Have a sweet and happy family and decent money.