LIVE WELL: Sun Exposure after Waking Up
THINK WELL: Probabilistic Thinking
DO MEANINGFUL WORK: Ikigai
Podcast - The Tim Ferris Show #532: Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project — How to Navigate Hard Conversations, the Subtle Art of Apologizing, and a Powerful 60-Day Challenge by Tim Ferriss
Article - Psyche: How to know who’s trustworthy by T Ryan Byerly
Read MoreLIVE WELL: Periodization
THINK WELL: Multiplying by Zero
DO MEANINGFUL WORK: Six Lives Exercise
Blog Post - Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life by Tim Ferriss
Read MoreMENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Logical Fallacies
Book - Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Read MoreMENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Via Negativa
Book - Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Dr. Martin Seligman
Read MoreSENSIBLE LIVING: Visualization (Positive & Negative)
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Incentives
Book - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Read MoreMENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Second-Order Thinking
Blog Post - Brain Pickings: Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success by Maria Popova
Read MoreSENSIBLE LIVING: Thermotherapy
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: First Principles Thinking
Book - Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy by Mo Gawdat (Full Kindle highlights)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "There is an old Buddhist saying, "Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water." Life is chop wood carry water. There is no hacking our way from chopping wood and carrying water. There is only the present." ~ Jerry Colonna
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Restarting "Real" Life in NYC
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Law of the Instrument (Maslow’s Hammer)
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Podcast - Reboot #60: The Work of Your Life with Khe Hy by Jerry Colonna
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Poem - If— by Rudyard Kipling
Read MoreTHE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "[Y]ou don’t truly know if you can do something until you have tried absolutely everything." ~ Rob Jones
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: The Red Queen Effect
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Podcast - Modern Wisdom # 348: Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Blog Post - I Can't by Rob Jones
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Podcast - The Knowledge Project #62: Cracking the Code of Love: My Interview with Psychologist and EFT Pioneer, Dr. Sue Johnson by Shane Parrish
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin." ~ Steven Pressfield
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Portugal Trip Micro Takeaways
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Law of Large Numbers
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Book - Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (My full Kindle highlights)
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (My full Kindle highlights)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves." ~ John Gardner
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Vipassana Course Reflections (6 Years Later)
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: The Lindy Effect
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Speech - Personal Renewal by John Gardner
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Life is richer and more fulfilling when we actively invest our time and energy in the things that are most important or meaningful to us." ~ Russ Harris
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Community / Junto Cultivation Resource Guide
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Chilling Effect
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT by Russ Harris (My full Kindle notes)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "The only way to be rational... is to recognize that you are irrational. That you are mostly following your emotions. That your ideas are generally emotionally based. And with that knowledge, you can then begin to challenge yourself, to question yourself, to question why you believe this..." ~ Robert Greene
TOPIC OF INTEREST: The Challenges of Returning to Normality Post COVID
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Fog of War
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Podcast - Daily Stoic: Ryan and Robert Greene Talk Plagues, Politics, and Polarization by Ryan Holiday
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Install systems and rules that encourage the behavior you want." ~ Peter Bevelin
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Project Freedom Retrospective - Am I Doing Meaningful Work? (Really?!?)
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Unintended Consequences
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Using Wedding Rituals As An Excuse for First Principles Thinking
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Principle of Minimum Energy
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Movie - Layer Cake (Trailer)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas." ~ Carl Sagan
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Rathering (False Dichotomies)
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Podcast - The Knowledge Project #112: Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Article - Skeptical Inquirer: The Burden Of Skepticism by Carl Sagan
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Don't identify with your beliefs, because if you do, you'll start to see challenging or interesting new information as a threat." ~ Andy Norman
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Meal Timing Recommendations Refresh
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Local vs. Global Optima
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (My full Kindle notes)
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (My full Kindle notes)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: The perceptions we layer onto objective reality define our felt experience.
MORNING MANTRA OF THE WEEK: All Matter, So Far As We Know It, Is a Mental Condition
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Narrative Instinct
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Article - UMass Student Life: Motivational Interviewing - Definition, Principles, and Approach
