January 15, 2025: The 2 Sides of Confidence

“Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.”

― John Wooden

Hi friends,

We hand-picked 3 good pieces of content for you to highlight this week. We hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives.

📚 3 Good Recommendations

13 Harsh Truths About Success Nobody Told You
by Sahil Bloom (9 mins)

• Success Requires Sacrifice and Resilience: Achieving success often involves enduring loneliness, navigating anxiety, and committing to disciplined, repetitive routines. The journey is marked by transformative periods, requiring you to embrace discomfort and adapt to constant change.
• The Journey Outweighs the Destination: Real fulfillment comes from growth and progress, not reaching a specific goal. Success demands ongoing effort; its rewards are temporary, and new challenges constantly arise.
• Redefine Success on Your Terms: Comparing yourself to others leads to dissatisfaction. True success stems from a personalized definition that aligns with your values and goals, emphasizing balance, relationships, and long-term purpose over material gains.

The 2 Sides of Confidence
by Nick Wignall (10 mins)

• Confidence Has Two Sides: It requires managing insecurity (like anxiety and self-doubt) and building self-efficacy (belief in your abilities), both developing through practice and acceptance.
• Breaking the Cycle: Start with small, low-stakes challenges to build experience and gradually improve confidence and emotional resilience.
• Key to Growth: Confidence grows from consistent practice, tackling progressively harder tasks, and managing insecurities without letting them overwhelm you.

Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning
by Andrew Huberman (102 mins)

• Testing Enhances Learning: Self-testing soon after exposure to new material significantly reduces forgetting and improves retention by about 50%. Testing helps identify knowledge gaps and solidify memory, making it more effective than repeated passive material review.
• Key Learning Components: Focus and attention during learning are crucial and rely on proper sleep and mental readiness. Like mindfulness meditation or structured self-assessment, active engagement boosts neuroplasticity and learning efficiency.
• Effective Study Habits: The most successful learners schedule regular, distraction-free study sessions, often alone, and aim to teach others what they've learned. Incorporating emotional salience, structured schedules, and tools like spaced repetition further optimizes long-term learning outcomes.

📣 Community

• 🟩 2025 GSV Cup 50:
  We’re thrilled to announce that Glasp has been selected as one of the 2025 GSV Cup 50! 🎉 Chosen from a record-breaking 1,900 nominations, the GSV Cup 50 highlights top startups transforming education and workforce development. This recognition fuels our mission to empower lifelong learning and knowledge-sharing!

• 🟦 Released Glasp API Beta:
  We’re excited to announce the beta release of the Glasp API! This gives developers powerful tools to integrate Glasp's features into their apps and workflows. Learn more about how to get started and explore the possibilities here.
• 🟨 Released YouTube Summary for Firefox extension:
  We released YouTube Summary for Firefox. Now, it can enhance your YouTube viewing experience with quick and easy summaries directly in Firefox! Please check this link to install the Firefox extension.

• 🟥 Glasp Talk with Raphael Hyde:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries, revealing their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest is, Raphael Hyde, a product design leader with 14 years of experience shaping innovative products across tech giants and startups. Raphael currently serves as a Staff Product Designer at Snowflake, following his roles as Head of Design at MotherDuck and Design Lead at Google, where he contributed to products like BigQuery.

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❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• Discover Listings Resources on SaaSAITools.com
• Comment utiliser l’intelligence artificielle en classe? (Comment utiliser l’intelligence artificielle en classe?) on Hachette Education
• 7 extensões do Google Chrome que vão te economizar centenas de horas (7 Google Chrome extensions that will save you hundreds of hours) on Engenharia 360
• Glasp on Skillademia

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We hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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