Practical Ideas and Habits
Rating: 9/10
If you’re young and live in the US, it’s a 10/10. Great starter book on personal finance. Teaches a clever system to automate saving and guilt free spending. Has detailed recommendations of banks accounts and credit cards (check his website for updates before opening any). It’s sequenced as a six-weeks-to-do-list so you take action that gets you 85% there, with options for optimizing later (becoming more of an expert).More
Rating: 10/10.
If you’re conscientious, hard working, responsible, perfectionist, ambitious, it’s likely that your brain uses back pain (or other symptoms) to avoid experiencing powerful negative emotions like anger, anxiety and low self-esteem. Worse case scenario, if this book is a placebo, then it’s cheaper than chiropractor/acupuncture/massage/physical therapy/surgery.More
We project onto others the good and the bad.More
He becomes a chess expert, then starts from zero to become a Tai Chi expert. He shares his stories and insights on how to learn. Learning theories, Hermit Crab metaphor, downward spirals. Stress and Recovery, creating triggers to get into flow (the zone).More
Our minds make lots of connections between things. Most of the time, they are good ones. At times they don’t help, when that happens we can manually disconnect and re-wire them.
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Make yourself stronger, healthier, and wiser in the morning, before receiving any inputs. “Seed” your morning habits then slowly scale them. You’re more likely to scale them in the morning than at night.More
The One True to artificially reduce your choices and value your things moreMore
Making new habits stick. Make it failure-proof by starting small, using triggers and betting with a deadlineMore
Journaling as daily training in positive thinking, a record to be consulted (especially when those silly thoughts creep in) and for reviews instead of New Year’s resolutionsMore
