5 Day Reading Challenge in March 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣
- De-Automating My Reading Notes: A New and Better Way For Capturing My Reading Notes in Obsidian by Jamie Todd Rubin (5 mins)
The author thought that he'd save himself a ton of time by automating as much of the process as possible. But he found that he didn’t really absorb his notes when doing that. It was only when he was culling, curating, and typing in his notes manually that they began to resonate with him. What started out the automation as something cool and interesting, proved less useful than he thought.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Focus: The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration by James Clear (11 mins)
“Because of email alone, we typically waste one out of every six minutes”. Find out Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy for focused attention and the hacks to managing your concentration.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - 19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius) by Ryan Holiday (9 mins)
Ryan Holiday has compiled a list of 19 rules for a better life from the writings of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. The rules include putting people first, focusing on what is within our control, doing only what is essential, choosing sympathy over outrage, and treating success and failure the same. The key to a fulfilling life, according to Marcus, is to be free of passion and full of love and to see obstacles as opportunities for growth.
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Day 2️⃣
- How to Get Your Brain to Focus on What Matters by James Clear (4 mins)
The idea that you can focus on one part of an experience and ignore others is a cognitive psychology concept known as selective attention. Selective attention helps you filter out the noise and focus on the signal. The only way to figure out what works and what doesn't is to measure your results. If you repeat this cycle for 20 years, then you end up becoming very good at focusing on the things that matter and ignoring the things that don't.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Curse of Knowledge: How to Be an Approachable Genius by Chris Meyer (4 mins)
The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive bias that affects those with a greater understanding of a topic, making it difficult for them to explain it in a way that is accessible to those with less knowledge. To combat this, it is important to avoid jargon and be open to answering questions. The Feynman Technique promotes learning through teaching and simplicity and requires intellectual humility and empathy.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The Single Greatest Habit You Can Build by Sahil Bloom (5 mins)
The single greatest habit you can build is walking. History's greatest men and women, from Aristotle to Steve Jobs, have used walking as a tool for creativity and productivity. Studies have shown that walking boosts creative thinking by an average of 60%, and walking meetings can lead to deeper connections and better outcomes. There are different types of walks, including active walks, passive "tech-free" walks, morning sunlight walks, and break walks.
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Day 3️⃣
- You and your mind garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (5 mins)
The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your curiosity (the seeds), growing your knowledge (the trees), and producing new thoughts (the fruits). On the surface, it’s a repetitive process. You need consistency and patience. But each day tending to your “mind garden” is different: discovering a new learning strategy, having a eureka moment, connecting the dots between two authors, and getting involved in a lively conversation with an expert.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Brain Training Doesn’t Work by Scott H. Young (7 mins)
Rumor has it, playing chess and playing Sudoku is a way to train our brains. However, some studies have found that these activities may not be as helpful in training your intelligence as you expected. Learning is the key to success.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - 10 Ways to Slow Down and Still Get Things Done by Lori Deschene (4 mins)
The article suggests 10 ways to slow down and still get things done. These include eating slowly, doing nothing for 15 minutes after waking up, staring at a photo instead of reading an article, choosing an activity to focus on, staring at a turned-off TV for 10 minutes, blocking unplanned time in your planner, writing Parkinson's Law, disconnecting from your phone for half an hour, and saying no. These small changes can help slow down your pace without affecting productivity.
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Day 4️⃣
- The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science by Michael Simmons (8 mins)
The author interviewed one of the world’s top network scientists, Ron Burt. During it, he shared a chart that completely flipped his understanding of success. According to multiple, peer-reviewed studies, simply being in an open network instead of a closed one is the best predictor of career success.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom (4 mins)
Luck can be defined as success or failure brought by chance, but there are four types of luck according to Dr. Christian H. Austin. Type I is blind luck, Type II is luck from motion, Type III is luck from awareness, and Type IV is luck from uniqueness. When choosing between two paths, always choose the path with a larger luck surface area.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Finding Meaning by Briandito Priambodo (3 mins)
As we pursue our careers, we may feel trapped in a luxurious job that doesn't bring us joy. However, finding meaning in life is not about reaching a destination, but about seeking growth and experiencing life. What brings us joy is the challenge of a new journey. Meaning can be stability and comfort for some, but ultimately, it's up to us to determine what's meaningful. It's no longer about the destination, but about why we are going there.
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Day 5️⃣
- How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear (8 mins)
A toaster seems to be a simple machine. It has, in fact, 400 components. Oftentimes, we underestimate the complexity of the world. The toaster story told by Thomas Thwaites reflects that innovative thinkers do not create but they connect.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See Time Differently by Michael Simmons (16 mins)
Where almost all public company CEOs, not to mention people in general, plan days, weeks, and months ahead, these visionaries think decades or even centuries into the future. And they don’t just plan: They put their money where their mouths are. They make bold bets that won’t pay off anytime soon — and that have a high probability of failure. Playing the long game is actually a universally powerful and foundational life and business strategy that we should all adopt.
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Share: Tweet Your Progress - Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by by Julian Baggini (11 mins)
The article discusses 10 rules of philosophy to live by, including being sincere, charitable, humble, and using language accurately. It emphasizes the importance of intellectual virtues and avoiding dangerous ideologies. The article also encourages being eclectic in thinking and considering multiple perspectives. The author suggests that these rules can help individuals think more clearly and avoid common mistakes in reasoning.
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