Develop a variety of skills that make you unique. You can get to the top 20% with Deliberate Practice and limited time - with just 20% of the effort. Collect a list of such skills and you will have a very competitive advantage. Ideally, pick up skills that compound over time - it should get better the more you use it(eg. Writing).
Published on Aug 18, 2021
When receiving criticism, just accept it in the initial stage. Hear out the criticism assuming it is true. You can analyze it later.
Published on Aug 18, 2021
A lesson is a user interface to knowledge. All concepts in UX can be used to create better lessons.
Published on Aug 17, 2021
When learning a skill people go thru 5 cognitive progression stages. They learn to think differently in each stage...
Published on Aug 17, 2021
Finding a purpose might be a wrong path to take to get a purpose. A better one would be to cultivate it.
Published on Aug 11, 2021
Mind greatly prefers any Coherent story over uncertainty. It will choose a explanation it deems likely over saying "I don't know".
Published on Aug 11, 2021
When you have a strong emotion(eg. Shame), it can take over your rational thinking process. The thinking process will be co-opted to think up reasons to feel the emotions(eg. I'm feeling shame because I failed in my exams when I was a child) - its looking for some coherent explaination - not the truth.
Published on Aug 11, 2021
Know the list of areas that you will generally be biased in(eg. I have a tendency to have a positive bias) - so that you can be more mindful in those areas - or even figure out ways to limit your choices in those areas.
Published on Aug 06, 2021
People tend to think that events could have been easily predictable AFTER the outcome is clear. The certainty that people attribute to their predictions are much higher that it actually is.
Published on Aug 06, 2021