5 Day Reading Challenge in January 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣
- Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More by James Clear (4 mins)
It can be tempting to blame failure on a lack of willpower or a scarcity of talent and to attribute success to hard work, effort, and grit. To be sure, those things matter. What is interesting, however, is that if you examine how human behavior has been shaped over time, you discover that motivation (and even talent) is often overvalued. In many cases, the environment matters more.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - 40 Useful Concepts You Should Know by Gurwinder (7 mins)
The article covers 40 concepts that are useful to know. These include the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, Nobel Disease, etc. These concepts cover a wide range of topics, from psychology to economics to technology, and can help us better understand the world around us.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - How to Become Comfortable With Uncertainty by Michael Ashcroft (6 mins)
Epistemic humility is the ability to recognize that our understanding of the world is incomplete and distorted, and to act and think accordingly. To become comfortable with uncertainty, we must learn to notice the internal pressure to adopt a familiar, certain position and gently step back from it. We must stay in the experience of unfamiliarity and, with time, learn to find a sense of ease and safety within it.
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Day 2️⃣
- Why To Curate Information by Robin Good (9 mins)
"In an information economy, the ability to search/find, analyze, evaluate, deal with, absorb, learn from, manage, share and leverage useful information with, from and to others is the strategically valuable skills.” In this article, the author mentions the benefits and reasons why people curation information.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful Work by James Clear (6 mins)
Minkkinen shared The Helsinki Bus Station Theory with the graduating students, which is to stay on the bus, and eventually, you will find your own unique destination. To create unique and meaningful work, you must commit to the hard work of revisiting, rethinking, and revising your ideas. You don't know the right answer, but you must choose one and put in the work to get the average ideas out of the way, and eventually genius will reveal itself.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The hermeneutic circle: a key to critical reading by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (4 mins)
When we first read a text—whether a book, a research paper, or a blog post—we form an initial understanding. As we progress through the text, we keep on evaluating this initial understanding based on the new knowledge brought by the text as it unfolds. As you are reading this sentence, you are doing two things at the same time: understanding single words, and weighing the meaning of each word. In turn, the new context will inform the way we interpret the text.
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Day 3️⃣
- Learn In Public by swyx (3 mins)
What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust: write blogs and tutorials and cheat sheets, speak at meetups and conferences, etc. Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. At some point, you’ll get some support behind you. People notice genuine learners. By teaching you, they teach many. You amplify them.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - How to Ask Good Questions: 5 Ways to Discover the Truth by Chris Meyer (9 mins)
Questions are a great tool to discover the truth and can be used to elicit information or persuade. There are different types of questions, such as story-eliciting, chunking, calibrated, Columbo, and Alexander's. Story-eliciting questions reverse-engineer the kind of information we want to elicit, chunking questions navigate the level of detail, calibrated questions are great for negotiations, and Alexander's question promotes analytical humility.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Do We Really Want the Things We Say We Want? by Nick Wignall (3 mins)
We often claim to want things, but do we really want them? To answer this, we need to be clear with ourselves about what we want and what we are willing to sacrifice to get it. We need to examine the tradeoffs associated with pursuing our goals and ask ourselves if we are truly willing to make those sacrifices. If we are, then we can be sure that we really want something.
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Day 4️⃣
- The Four Levels of Reading: Improve Skills One Level At A Time by FS Blog (6 mins)
One of the secrets to acquiring knowledge is to read. A lot. Picking up a book and reading the words is the easy part. Reading to understand is much harder. The key is not simply to read more but rather to be selective about what we read and how we are reading. In this article, he outlines the four levels of reading.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - If you want to be massively successful, do NOT set ambitious goals, according to studies by Michael Simmons (21 mins)
We think a goal is going to change everything, so we sacrifice our health or our close relationships (or both) for it. Then, in the end, we realize that what we sacrificed may have been more important than the goal itself. Yet, when we set a goal, we often unconsciously make the assumption that we won’t change significantly and neither will the world. Neither is true.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Riddle of Rest by Lawrence Yeo (5 mins)
Rest is an important part of life, but it is often misunderstood. Rest is when you are not associating your self-worth with what you have to do next. It is about doing things that have nothing to do with furthering your place in society. Rest is like a still lake, flowing without any intention and rising without breaking. It is about understanding that you are not defined by what you produce, and being okay with whatever you are.
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Day 5️⃣
- For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps by James Clear (5 mins)
Creativity is about taking existing ideas and combining them in new ways. To be creative, one must learn specific material related to the task and become fascinated with a wide range of concepts. Step away from the problem and let the idea come back to you. Shape and develop the idea based on feedback and continue to revise it. Creativity is about connecting ideas, not being the first to think of them.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - In 1911, a genius revealed a forgotten science of how to be 50x more productive without working more hours by Michael Simmons (21 mins)
Peter Drucker said “The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.” At the point you’d expect another 50x increase in productivity because of computers, there was stagnation in the United States. The author researched why it happened and found a simple 4-step framework that could be applied to knowledge work.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning by Dan Shipper (4 mins)
1-1 tutoring is an effective way to learn, with a study finding that students who learn through 1-1 tutoring perform 98% better than those who learn in a traditional classroom setting. It is also significantly cheaper than traditional education. The author tried this method to learn more about writing and to finish his novel and found it to be much more effective than any other method he had tried. It is an effective and cost-efficient way to learn.
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