5 Day Reading Challenge in June 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣
- How to Get Out of a Rut
by Sahil Bloom (4 mins)
Feeling stuck in a rut is common, especially for high-achievers. The first step is to stop digging and eliminate negativity and exhaustion. The second step is to change direction by focusing on factors within your control and your ideal self. The third step is to create movement, even if it's just minimum viable progress. Remember that life is a long game, and pushing yourself too hard can take you out of the game for longer.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
by James Clear (7 mins)
What begins as a small advantage gets bigger over time. One plant only needs a slight edge, in the beginning, to crowd out the competition and take over the entire forest. Something similar happens in our lives. Not everything in life is a Winner-Take-All competition, but nearly every area of life is at least partially affected by limited resources. Where your performance relative to those around you is the determining factor in your success.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Habit trackers: does tracking your habits actually work?
by Hannah England (7 mins)
We rarely lack good intentions. We want to drink more water, exercise regularly, or meditate every morning. Establishing habits, however, can feel like a struggle, and there’s often a gap between intention and execution. This is why habit trackers are such popular tools to help us stick to our goals. But do they work, and why do we tend to abandon them if they do?
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Day 2️⃣
- 2 TRICKS WILL HELP YOU LEARN AND REMEMBER NEW STUFF
by Rachel Cramer (3 mins)
Combining two strategies—spacing and retrieval practice—is key to success in learning, says Shana Carpenter. The benefits of spacing and retrieval practice have been confirmed over and over in studies in labs, classrooms, and workplaces, but these two techniques haven’t fully caught on.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Three Filters Needed to Think Through Problems
by FS Blog (7 mins)
Garrett Hardin's Filters Against Folly outlines three filters to help interpret reality: the literate filter, the numerate filter, and the final filter of "and then what?" Language is action, so it's important to understand what is really being said. Numerical fluency is essential to understanding claims and assessing problems rationally. Proposed solutions and interventions will have a multitude of effects, so it's important to consider them in their totality. No single filter is sufficient for reaching a reliable decision, so they must be used wisely together.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done
by James Clear (5 mins)
Isaac Newton's three laws of motion can be applied to productivity. The first law states that objects at rest tend to stay at rest, while objects in motion tend to stay in motion. To overcome procrastination, start a task in less than two minutes. The second law states that the vector sum of forces on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by the acceleration vector. It's not just about how hard you work, but where you place that work. The third law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Day 3️⃣
- The Fine Balance between Short-Term & Long-Term Planning
by The Knowledge (2 mins)
Balancing short-term and long-term planning is crucial for success. Finite time, which is within our control, should be prioritized for near-term planning, while infinite time, which encompasses externalities and events out of our control, should be leveraged for long-term planning. The barbell approach to risk management involves taking on two extreme positions, one with low risk and one with high risk, rather than a moderate position with medium risk. By taking on a small amount of extreme risk, the potential for gain can be maximized while minimizing the potential for loss.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Imitate, then Innovate
by David Perell (18 mins)
Imitation and innovation go hand in hand, and the more we imitate, the faster we can discover our unique style. The fear of plagiarism is injected into us in school, where we’re taught to fear anything that smells like imitation. Apprenticeships are a great way to learn skills through imitative learning. Reading a lot of good writing is among the best ways to become a good writer. The future originates in art before it becomes our reality. Originality is only useful insofar as it serves a higher end. Those who hold originality as their highest virtue are bound to either get stuck or create nothing of substance.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - How to spot adaptability in others — and boost it in yourself
by Kara Cutruzzula (5 mins)
Adaptability is an important trait to have in today's world. It can be spotted in others by asking "what if" questions and "tell me about a time when you were wrong" questions. It can be improved by playing at the intersections, taking a devil's advocate role, and keeping a failure resume. Adaptability is not fixed and everyone has the capacity to measure, test, and improve their ability to adapt to new circumstances.
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Day 4️⃣
- How to Make Smart Decisions Without Getting Lucky
by FS Blog (11 mins)
Learning to make effective decisions is crucial for success in life and business. Mental models shape how we think and approach problems and diverse frameworks and tools can improve decision-making. However, there are many reasons why we fail to make effective decisions, such as unintentional stupidity, wrong information, and using the wrong model. Intelligent preparation involves applying all knowledge at our disposal to solve problems, and understanding how the world works can lead to consistently good decisions.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - How to Improve Your Self-Esteem in 5 Minutes or Less
by Nick Wignall (5 mins)
People with low self-esteem tend to have a negativity bias, so to combat this, one should keep a daily self-gratitude diary. Scheduling an early-morning win can also help build a sense of accomplishment and pride. Lastly, flipping regrets into values can help build healthy self-esteem. Regret is a future-facing emotion that can help motivate us to be better in the future. All of these steps can help improve self-esteem in five minutes or less.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on How to Build Confidence
by James Clear (4 mins)
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov suggests pretending to feel confident and making aggressive moves to trigger a confident state, even when feeling fragile. Research shows that body language can also increase confidence and decrease anxiety. Confidence can be both the cause and result of actions, and a positive mindset is essential. When feeling uncertain, ask yourself what a brave person would do and let your behavior drive your beliefs.
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Day 5️⃣
- Uncertainty Matrix: How To Deal With Uncertainty (And Gain From It)
by Frontera (3 mins)
Uncertainty can be a source of anxiety, but managing it better is a crucial skill. There are four types of uncertainty: known knowns, unknown knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. To deal with uncertainty, challenge known knowns, discover unknown knowns, mitigate known unknowns, and prepare for unknown unknowns by adding redundancy and increasing optionality. With these strategies, you can navigate an uncertain world and even gain from it.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Deathbed Regret List
by Sahil Bloom (5 mins)
The Deathbed Regret List encourages individuals to reflect on what they may regret later in life and take action to avoid those regrets. It suggests listing personal regrets and establishing core values to guide behavior. Examples of common regrets include not spending enough time with loved ones, neglecting physical and mental health, allowing friendships to fade, and letting negativity and money control one's life. The article emphasizes the importance of leaving a lasting impact on others and finding true wealth in discovering one's version of enough.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
by Kevin Kelly (1 min)
"103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known" offers a collection of life lessons and insights, including the importance of forgiveness, cultivating meaningful relationships, creating more leaders, and embracing detours. The author encourages readers to focus on habits rather than inspiration, to be curious about things they're not interested in, and to aim to die broke. Other advice includes criticizing in private and praising in public, focusing on directions rather than destinations, and recognizing that life lessons will be presented in the order they're needed.
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