November 5, 2024: Habits vs. Goals: A Look at the Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life

“If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.”

― John Wooden

Hi friends,

How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋

We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)

📚 3 Good Articles for You

Habits vs. Goals: A Look at the Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life
by FS (5 mins)

• Habits as Powerful and Sustainable Drivers: Unlike goals, which are temporary endpoints, habits create lasting behaviors that operate automatically and make challenging tasks easier. Good habits reduce the cognitive load needed to pursue goals, embedding persistence and consistency in daily routines.
• Drawbacks of Goal-Only Approaches: Goals can be limiting, prone to setbacks beyond one’s control, and risk complacency upon completion. They often require ongoing conscious effort, while habits simplify the path to achievement by establishing reliable, consistent actions.
• Compounding and Incremental Benefits of Habits: Habits can grow and interconnect, impacting multiple areas of life and enabling continuous improvement. By focusing on small, manageable habits, individuals can exceed initial goals and achieve more with less strain, fostering personal growth over time.

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What Is Quantified Self? The Complete Guide to Lifelogging
by Macgill Davis (10 mins)

• Quantified Self Movement: The Quantified Self (QS) movement promotes self-knowledge through data collection. Using tracking technologies, individuals gather insights on health, behavior, and habits to improve various life aspects, such as sleep, diet, and time management. The movement, founded in 2007 by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, includes a global community of enthusiasts who share their self-tracking journeys.
• Benefits and Empowerment: Self-tracking can enhance self-awareness and personal growth by enabling individuals to monitor and reflect on their actions and routines. The movement also advocates for data privacy and empowerment, viewing self-tracking as a form of resistance against data exploitation.
• Steps to Start Self-Tracking: Key steps include identifying personal motivations, selecting metrics to track, choosing recording methods, analyzing data meaningfully, and acting on insights to make impactful life improvements. Examples include tracking sleep, heart rate, diet, and time for a more intentional lifestyle.

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3 brilliant critical thinking tools used by Daniel Dennett
by Kevin Dickinson (7 mins)

• Occam’s Razor: Simplify complex explanations by choosing the one with the fewest assumptions. This heuristic helps avoid misinformation and conspiracy theories, though it’s not infallible since some truths are inherently complex.
• Occam’s Broom: Recognize the tendency to "sweep away" inconvenient facts. Dennett advises modesty in the face of dubious theories, acknowledging that certain facts might be hidden unless one is an expert in the relevant field.
• Engage with Others: Productive critical thinking often emerges from collaborative discussions. Rather than competing, questioning and challenging ideas with others can lead to deeper understanding and insight.

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📣 Community

• 🟨 Launched on Product Hunt:
  We launched “Glasp: Turn Audio Files into Highlights” on Product Hunt 🚀 You can upload audio files to Glasp, which will automatically transcribe and summarize them. It'd be great if you could visit and upvote for us 🙇‍♂️
• 🟦 Upload and highlight local PDFs:Did you know Glasp has a new feature to upload and highlight locally stored PDFs? You can highlight and save the necessary parts on the PDF. Please check this tutorial to see how it works 👀

• 🟩 Glasp Tech Blog:
  We’ve published an article explaining how we rebuilt our YouTube Summary Chrome extension using React. If you’re interested in how the extension works, check it out!
  👉 How We Rebuilt the ChatGPT & YouTube Summary Extensions
• 🟥 Glasp Talk with John Whaley:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries, revealing their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest, John Whaley, is a visionary in cybersecurity and AI. John founded Inception Studio, a nonprofit accelerator empowering minds in AI, and Redcoat AI, dedicated to combating AI-enhanced social engineering attacks.

👀 Featured Curator on Glasp

Dalton Coates
Dalton learns medical, health, and more! Let’s follow and learn together 🤝

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❤️ Gratitude

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

• Glasp - Social Web Highlighter with AI Summarizer on B12
• 093. 2 Million Users with Zero Advertising Cost: Kazuki Nakayashiki Co-Founder, CEO @Glasp on YouTube (Creative Tech Podcast)
• Best Pdf Editor's Tool (web chrome extension) Glasp || cyber tech creations on YouTube (cyber tech creations)

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Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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