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What constitutes a challenge for you?
By "challenge," I mean something that is engaging or even exhilarating that still resembles the dictionary definition of a challenge.
Difficulty Level- Do you need something to be difficult to consider it a challenge? If so, how hard to you need it to be?
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Not necessarily. It can be a challenge to come up with a creative solution. Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best, but finding them can be a challenge in it's own right.
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- Is there a point when the difficulty level is too high for you to consider it a challenge? It so, what is the threshold?
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I love complexity. I have confidence that I would be able to solve much more difficult problems than my current level of ability allows. It takes focus. If you want to build a rocket to go to the moon you have to dedicate yourself to learning absolutely everything you can about rockets, physics, aerodynamics, mechanical and electrical engineering, etc.
If on the other hand you want to become a knitting genius, if you were to knit for four hours a day, in tens years you will be knitting the mona lisa complete with smile. If you control the components of your learning as you knit you will get there much faster. For example, keep daily, weekly and monthly logs of your knitting activities. Each time focus on what you can do to further improve your knitting. Then periodically go back and review. Push yourself continually raising the bar. Set yourself increasingly difficult knitting assignments. That is called controlling the components of your learning.
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Clarity of Goals- Do you prefer the goals you are trying to meet in your challenges to be clear or ambiguous?
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I have very large goals off in the distance, but they are not crystal clear. I definately believe in taking baby steps towards my goals. Each day you want to be thinking what you can do to get closer to your goal. My goals are like obessions. I think about them all the time. But that may be the INTP speaking. Before you know it the baby steps will have become sasquatch strides relative to where you started from.
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- Why do you have this preference?
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It works. I've been doing it for several years now. It's not perfect, but it's how I continually reinvent myself.
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Level of Confidence- How do you react when you overestimate how easy a task is, and find out that it is much more difficult than you anticipated? Do you consider it a challenge?
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The P in my wants to go back to sleep at this point. Then J comes along, kicks P's lazy ass off the sofa and drags him back to work.
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- How do you react when you overestimate how difficult a task is, and find out that it is much easier than you anticipated? Do you then consider that you have lost a challenging opportunity?
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Feedback- How often do you require feedback from your challenging situation for it to be fullfilling?
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My current challenge is building automated trading systems. Making money is postive feedback.
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- How do you know if you are getting too little feedback?
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Margin call.
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- How do you know if you are getting too much feedback?
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