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Shaping your life with the 80/20 principle

I wanted to make a post of my favorite highlights from the book The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less. But as I was reading through them to choose the best ones, I found myself immersed in them. The book hits so many areas of life,

Improving by avoiding mistakes

Avoiding mistakes is an underrated way to improve. It's easier to fend off a bad day than achieve a perfect day. Rather than do your best, avoid your worst." - James Clear I've been thinking about this quote lately. Making mistakes is a great and

Exploring food and fitness #1

Recently I've felt an urge to pay more attention to my diet and body. I'm not where I want to be with regards to appearance, ability to do stuff and prospects for future health. So I've started researching how I can go about changing

Andrew Huberman and Cal Newport on active recall

I recently listened to a podcast episode with Andrew Huberman and Cal Newport. One of the things they talked about was studying and specifically active recall.  They talk a lot about how effective it is. The method worked shockingly well for us and completely changed our studying. It was cool

Building your stick-to-it muscle

Physical limitations are obvious to us. But not mental ones. We can't just lift 350kg without serious practice. We can't just run a marathon without any prep. We are aware of the limits. But when it comes to our brain, we often ignore them. "I&

More happiness and achievement with the 80/20 principle

The 80/20 principle is all about finding the few key actions that bring the greatest results. Here's an exercise we can do to figure out the key actions to increase happiness and sense of achievement. This is taken from the book The 80/20 principle by Richard

Not quite bad enough

We sometimes tolerate things we're not happy with in life for a long time and never do anything about them. These can be big like a job we're not satisfied with or our fitness level. Or it can be something small, like a Roomba that doesn&

Why you should boil yourself alive and how to do it

If you drop a frog in a pot of hot water, it will immediately try to escape. But if you place the frog in water at a reasonable temperature, it will swim around. If you then slowly increase the temperature, the frog will stay in the water even when it&

4 questions to improve my life

The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life. These are a few questions I collected that might help set a direction and create change in my life. Hopefully they could help you too. What does my ideal day look like? What change would I have to make

Daily highlight - daily win for a life well lived

I often find that time passes me by. There are things I want to do, but for some reason I don't. Either I feel like they're not important enough, maybe they're overwhelming and sometimes they can simply be boring. Whatever the reason, a lot

The Comfort Crisis - takeaways and highlights

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter  My key takeaway: I shouldn't try to always avoid discomfort. I can embrace it and see it as a strengthening force What changes will I make because of this book? 1. See uncomfortable

Turning Jerry Seinfeld's writing advice into life advice

This is advice Jerry Seinfeld gave to his daughter when she was struggling to write. It applies to many things we might want to accomplish. Just replace the word "write" with whatever you're trying to do. I found it especially useful when thinking about studying. ---

The basic truths of studying and what to do with them

There's a book called Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. It describes the approaches to work of many creative people. Reading the book, it becomes obvious, that there is no ultimate truth or one solution that works for everyone. People are different. But the reason these

Habits

Using boredom to fight procrastination

I used to procrastinate a lot. Days, weeks and sometimes even months would go by without me studying. I played games, browsed the internet and did all sorts of things when I should have been studying. It was bad. Here's my attempt at explaining how you can beat

Changing behavior is the measure of learning

I enjoy reading and learning. I read books, articles, listen to podcasts.. I try gaining knowledge everywhere. Heck, we even sold our TV recently to buy a Kindle. The topics are far ranging too. From medicine and health to business advice, architecture, philosophy, psychology, futurism, history and the list goes

Critical keyboard shortcuts to use your computer like a master

I've you're reading this you probably use computers a lot. They are a basic tool for many school or work tasks and almost everybody has to deal with them at some point. There's a thing that makes using the computer much faster and more

The problem with too many inputs

How to choose the inputs we let into our lives

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