Five Keys to Professional and Personal Development (Article and audio)
Jeff Deist
I recommend that you read and/or listen to the audio of the below. I believe that all five points that Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute, are valid. (Jeff Deist knows that everyone cannot do all five.) But many can and don’t even do two to three of the ways mentioned to improve). Number 4 - avoid arguments - is especially important for me. I find it a waste of time to converse with any person who goes by his or her “feelings” as opposed to reading, studying and doing critical thinking on any subject or subjects involved. Ignoring another person who will not listen and goes by his or her “feelings” is important in the secular realm like the spiritual realm - JRD]:
Matthew 10:14:
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
2 Timothy 2:15:
15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. [Note the studying is to show yourself approved by your ACTIONS to God as a workman thus dividing the word of truth from false beliefs (deceiving oneself and brainwashing). - JRD
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Five Keys to Professional and Personal Development
“Do these things to stand apart from your peers.”
[This talk was delivered on Friday, September 2, 2022, to a student workshop at the Ron Paul Institute conference in northern Virginia.]
“The remarks I’ve prepared today relate to your personal and professional development, which are of course closely interrelated. This is not to be confused with “self-help,” a somewhat disreputable genre whose practitioners often want to sell you shortcuts. Development means just that: developing your skills, knowledge, and interests to advance toward goals which hopefully become more clear as you go through your twenties and thirties. Remember, you may well have a longer work life than your parents and grandparents, so you have more time and more choices perhaps than they did. But it is important not to waste your best years for learning, when your brain’s neurons fire at their best! Even at your age, still in college, it is not too early to view yourselves as professionals and to take your work seriously.”