Emotions are our automatic life-reporting systems. We experience joy in our successes, eagerness to achieve the next goal, fear of a deadline we need to pay more attention to. Emotions are crucial to enjoying life and keeping it on track. Unfortunately, emotions can...
Many books offer great advice. Some are so powerful they change your mind on issues you consider settled. Very few are so clear you can learn something about thinking just by reading them. TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations is all three. At first glance,...
Tactic: Formulate a Goal as a Headline What: Reconceive goals in terms of outcomes. When: When you have a goal and want to make sure you achieve it. How: Write the newspaper headline that you want to read after it's done. Why: The trick of thinking of a headline helps...
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Tactic: Planned Evolution "Planned Evolution" Tactic Overview What: "Planned Evolution" is an organic planning process. The essence is that you aim at a scaled-down first-generation outcome, which can then be added to and/or improved to create the desired outcome. The...
A central purpose is your top productive goal. It’s stylized and utterly selfish, not just the name of your profession. One lawyer might have as her central purpose to defend companies against frivolous lawsuits. Another might want to get innocent people out of jail....
“Stuck” is a state of mind, but not a figment of your imagination. What gets you “unstuck” is looking at the problems you face from a slightly different perspective. There is always a way forward, but sometimes “forward” is in a different direction from what you assumed.[…]
Tactic: "Hyping" Overview What: Hyping When: This is a good tactic to use when you are daydreaming about a project instead of doing it. How: This is a variation on complaining. Instead of collecting negative thoughts, you gather positive thoughts. Exaggerated sentence...
Here's an extremely interesting article which discusses the difference between making and breaking habits. Short version: Habits can be made, by adding actions to something that already happens. To break a habit, you can sometimes substitute an alternate behavior. If...
Ayn Rand said man is "a being of self-made soul." David Goggins is a man of self-designed soul. At a young age, he literally looked into a mirror and decided he didn't like what he saw. He embarked on a journey to turn himself into the kind of man he wanted to be. He...
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