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30 Year Thinking

5 Things You Can Do To Become More Attractive

About parrhesia and dialectic

Access to knowledge is crucial for innovation

Addictions

Adversity and Resilience

Adversity Separates Champions from Almost Champions

Allocate time for puttering around

Anger and Disagreements

Antifragility

Aquisition problem

Arrival Fallacy

Asking questions

Avoid Intense Ideologies. Have an Open Mind. Use the Rule of Rethinking.

Avoiding discomfort

Avoiding eye contact

Awareness chime - A Simple Productivity Tip to Nudge those who are Easily Distracted

Bad Habits

Be aggressive, Being Nice all the time is Not Nice

Be clear on your principles

Be So Prolific, They Can’t Ignore You

Being Bored Make Us More Creative

Being prolific and working quickly

Being the underdog

Biases

Bits of Unsolicited Advice

Body language

Book - Asking the Right Questions-A Guide to Critical Thinking

Book - Atomic Habits

Book - Better by Atul Gawande

Book - Coronado

Book - Deep work by Cal Newport

Book - Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Book - Extreme ownership

Book - Factfulness

Book - Four Thousand Weeks

Book - Freakanomics

Book - Good to great by Jim Collins

Book - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Book - How To Win Friends And Influence People

Book - I know why the caged bird sings

Book - Interpreter of maladies

Book - Letters to a Young Contrarian

Book - Liars Poker

Book - Macbeth by Shakespeare

Book - Mans Search for Meaning

Book - Mastery

Book - No limits by Michael Phelps

Book - No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings

Book - Oil by Upton Sinclair

Book - Open by Andre Agassi

Book - Poor Richard’s Almanack

Book - Predictably irrational

Book - Principles: Life and Work

Book - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Book - Rafa by Rafael Nadal

Book - Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

Book - So good they can't ignore you

Book - The 48 Laws of Power

Book - The Amazon Way

Book - The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book - The Checklist Manifesto

Book - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Book - The Fountainhead

Book - The four hour workweek

Book - The Hard Thing About Hard Things By Ben Horowitz

Book - The inner game of tennis

Book - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Book - The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler

Book - The Power of Positive Thinking

Book - The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Book - The Road to Wigan Pier

Book - The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller

Book - The Twittering Machine By Richard Seymour

Book - The Two Mindsets by Carol Dweck

Book - The Way of the Superior Man

Book - The wisdom of Native Americans

Book - Think and grow rich

Book - Thinking Fast and Slow

Book - Turn the Ship Around

Book - Where men win glory

Book - Zero To One by Peter Thiel

Boredom

Brutal Truths About Productivity No One Wants to Talk About

Building Inner Stability

Burn Your Ships

Can Reading Make You Happier?

Capturing ideas and tasks and executing on them

Carl Sagan on Moving Beyond Us vs Them

Categorical Imperative or the Golden Rule of Morality

Cellphone Addiction

Clutter

Cogito Ergo Sum: I Think, Therefore I Am

Cognition, Consciousness and Critical Thinking

Collectors fallacy

Communicating with Self 2

Comparing yourself to others

Confront the brutal facts - Yet never lose faith

Conscientiousness

Conscientiousness is correlated with success in life

Constantly apologizing

Control the Center

Create a list of low-energy, low-brainpower, non-difficult tasks

Creating tasks and to do lists

Creativity

Cruel people are idiots

Cut Your Work Hours in Half with an A/B Schedule

Day dreaming

Dealing with feedback

Dealing with insults

Dealing with toxic people

Default mode network

Deliberate practice

Depth year

Desire

Detatched interest

Determinism, Indeterminism: Are Our Fates Sealed?

Develop a Wide Knowledge Base

Discipline

Discipline equals Freedom

Distractions Are Potential Killers. Be stubborn. Don't let go of projects.

Do not live under some other person's shadow, do not use their language or their associations to make sense of the world

Do one thing at a time

Do you own initiatives or do you lack agency?

Doing More vs Doing What Matters

Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing for Most People, Study Shows

Don't let personal knowledge management hold you down

Don’t End The Week With Nothing

Don’t get fooled or conned again — here are the 5 tactics to look out for

Don’t Surround Yourself With Admirers

Dopamine

Downplaying your achievements

Dunning-Kruger effect

Effective people think simply

Efficiency is the Enemy. You need more slack in your life.

Einstein didn’t say that: How viral misquotes evolve and replicate

Eisenhower Matrix

Embrace Stretch Goals

Embrace the Rule of Awkward Silence

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence - Show gratitude

Endless student syndrome

Environment design - Impact on Focus and Habits

Evening routing

Excessively self-deprecating

Existential Crisis: A Contemporary Philosophical Concept

Fallacies

False consensus effect

Fear and Despair

Fear setting

First principles thinking

Fixed Volume Approach to Productivity using a Primary TO-DO list with Limited items

Focus, Concentration, Attention span and Being present

Fooling or Conning techniques

Force the practice of remembering and write things down in the context of what you are thinking about

Forming and maintaining habits

Friendships and relationships

Generalise, don't specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us

Getting The Ball Rolling Is The Best Antidote To Procrastination

Getting upset

Giving and receiving advice

Giving and taking Respect

Goals, Ideas… are all Lies. Solve problems when you face them. Optimize the already existing solutions.

God Is Dead

Good and Bad Procrastination

Good Habits

Gratitude - A Surprising Way to Reduce Stress

Greed

Growth Mindset

Guilt

Habits - Actively practice leadership

Habits - Approach your obstacles with curiosity

Habits - As soon as you wake up, do a body/mind/spirit scan

Habits - Banish the word fine. Refuse to settle.

Habits - Be clear about what you need from others

Habits - Confront harsh challenges and difficult things to transform yourself

Habits - Define Winning the Day

Habits - Define your fears instead of your goals

Habits - Develop grit and strength - emotionally, physically and intellectually. Get mentally and physically strong

Habits - Develop the skills to begin opening and establishing relationships

Habits - Develop true grit

Habits - Embrace your near wins

Habits - Get to a city; Get out of the house as much as possible

Habits - Give yourself as many opportunities as possible. Find a good partner.

Habits - Hold yourself accountable

Habits - Listen intently

Habits - Live by the calendar

Habits - Make long-term, consistent and incremental improvements

Habits - Making a change in stroke

Habits - Manage your email brutally

Habits - Pick your priorities carefully

Habits - Put yourself in uncomfortable situations. Go up and talk to strangers

Habits - Remove dependencies

Habits - Review Game Footage

Habits - Say No. Stop being a Yes Man.

Habits - Showering in the morning

Habits - Spend more time making the big decisions

Habits - Start your day with fighting the top priority Dragon first

Habits - Subscribe to daily or weekly newsletters that aggregate content relevant to your industry or goals

Habits - Take economic responsibility for your household

Habits - Take one deep breath

Habits - Take risk

Habits - Take time to do what’s right for those around you

Habits - The groove theory

Habits - Track your habits

Habits - Try and find things where you're building something in the agency of others

Habits - Turn off your notifications

Habits - Use Feedback Loops

Habits - Use the Power of Sunlight

Habits - using org-mode to track habits

Habits - Wake Up With a Win

Habits - Write to think

Habits that boost learning process

Habits to become smarter

Have it your way: rethinking the Rules You’re Upholding

Having an open mind is a trait, but it’s also a skill you can cultivate

Having difficult talks with your son should happen sooner than you might think

High Schools are not preparing kids for college and it is an alarming trend

Hindrances to self mastery

Holding grudges

How are learning and opportunity related?

How Conspiracy theories work

How Einstein Learned Physics

How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Rule of Rethinking

How Krishna Taught Arjuna To Handle Toxic People

How not to take things personally

How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp

How reading makes us more human

How the busiest people get 'deep work' done

How To Actually Concentrate

How to be good at stress

How to become hyper efficient

How to deal with Disagreeable, Confrontational, Unfriendly or Upsetting situations

How to Develop Your Sense of Agency

How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You

How to make best use of technical instructions

How to make friends as an adult

How to overcome adversity

How to reduce digital distractions - advice from medieval monks

How To Shift Perspective When You Feel Like Giving Up On What Matters Most

How to spend your time right

How to Turn Journal Ramblings into Viral Articles

How to use your regrets for good?

How to watch the Pros?

How to Work Hard - by Paul Graham

Imposter Syndrome

In your own time - how to live for today the philosophical way

Increase your capacity to be bored

Increase Your Clarity and Creativity by tapping into your subconscious mind

Inquisitive and insightful questions to achieve goals

Introvert-Extrovert Spectrum

Iris Marion Young's birdcage metaphor

Journaling

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's approach to life, work and how she handles things

Keep track of how you are spending your time

Knowledge starts with presence

Knowledge, or a means of learning is key to emancipate yourself from your own inadequacies

Koan

Lack of accountability, reliability and responsibility

Leadership

Leadership material that is not written in handbooks

Learn by Inverting

Learn to Compartmentalize and Manage things

Learn to deal with hard days and hard times. You are only as Good as your Worst day.

Learning - The usual way vs The Inner Game way

Learning Plateaus

Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today

Life is a manifestation of where we direct our energy

Life is Short

Life lessons

Life lessons - from black holes

Life lessons - From Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark

Life lessons - from Japan

Life will push you around

Lindy Effect

Linus Torvalds says he is interested in kernels - not distributions

Love

Maintain a thoughtful say in what you are doing with your time

Make better decisions by understanding The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions

Make your phone boring

Making decisions and Taking risks

Manipulations

Marginalia

Marketplace of ideas

Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs

Master your time by systematically focusing on importance and suppressing urgency

Mental models and framework thinking

Mental Strength and Relaxed Confidence

Mini Habits and Marginal improvements

Moral Relativism

Morning routine

Movies - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Movies - A House of Dynamite

Movies - About greed

Movies - Air

Movies - American Wrestler: The Wizard

Movies - Blue Miracle and The Bicycle Thieves

Movies - Dumplin

Movies - Fight Club

Movies - Glass Onion

Movies - I'm Still Here

Movies - Lansky

Movies - Layer Cake

Movies - Living

Movies - No Country for Old Men

Movies - Oslo

Movies - The Hunt

Movies - The Killer

Movies - The Matrix

Movies - The Other Boleyn Girl

Movies - There will be blood

Movies - To catch a killer

Müller-Lyer illusion

Native American proverbs

Native American Wisdom

Neglecting self-care

Never Get Angry Or Bothered By Any One

New year resolutions

No does not necessarily mean no.

Nobody is Special - Collaborate with other people

Not ending conversations

Note taking - Methods

Note taking - Methods - Nodes or Mini Essays or Blank Sheets

Note taking - Methods - Taking notes from books and lectures

Note taking - Methods - Write it as if you are going to teach it to someone else

Note taking - Purpose and Benefits

Notes from books

Notes from Movies and TV shows

Occam's razor

On learning and being present

Organize your field of being

Organize your life

Our attention is finite

Our attention is stolen

Outwork everyone by being bored

Overwhelmed by the number of books, articles, podcasts, videos and reading material in the world?

Owning The Initiative

Parenting

Parenting - 4 things that the parents of kids who get into Harvard, Stanford and Princeton never do early on

Parenting - Children need to know they are loved before they can be independent

Parenting - The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy is Repairing

Parenting - Want to Raise Successful Boys? Science Says Do This

Parenting - Ways to know you're being a good father

Parenting - What Every Son Needs From His Father

Parenting - What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons

Parenting - Why You Should Always Tell Your Kids the Truth

Parkinson's law and the importance of setting strict deadlines

Parkinson's law of triviality (bikeshedding)

People skills - Show gratitude

People who rose from slavery and turned into rulers or statesmen

People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts

Perception

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tools

Personality Traits

Philosophy

Planning fallacy

Plato's Allegory of the cave

Position Over Submission

Prisoner's dilemma

Problems with dealing with anger and disagreements using social media

Problems with social media

Procrastination

Productivity for Writers: a System to Help You Publish More Work

Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity

Protecting your attention is a habit

Psychology

Publish your notes

Quality over quantity

Quotes, Proverbs and Smart words from Smart people

Radiant Fatherhood

Read a lot

Reading fiction exercises our empathy muscles

Reading versus Socializing

Reduce Brain Fog And Improve Clear Thinking

Reflect on Your Learning by Writing

Regret

Research, note taking, studying and learning

Rest Takes Hard Work

Resting is a biological reset of your nervous system

Return favors

Reverse goal setting

Risk takers have “childlike” brains—and sometimes it’s a benefit

Rituals to get into a state of flow

Rule with the power of focus

Schedule a learning workout

Schedule Every Minute of Your Day

Schedule your time for focused work

Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things

Second Guessing Yourself and Buckling on stance

Second-Order Thinking

Seeking external validation

Seeking permission from others

Self 2 learning process - natural learning

Self doubt

Self esteem and Self improvement

Set and assert your boundaries. Respect other people's boundaries.

Short pay

Should You Wander the World or Build a Home

Show Up, Every Day. Be consistent.

Silence

Sincerity and Presence

Single-Loop and Double-Loop Learning

Sitzfleisch - The German Concept to Get More Work Done

Smart People Do Foolish Things

Some Cardinal Rules of Life

Some harsh truths in life

Some Life Lessons That Every Person Should Know

Some Life Philosophies That Give You An Unfair Advantage In Life

Some of the Ways to Invest in Yourself

Some Rules to Do Everything Better

Some Ways Peak Experiences Improve Your Decisions and Goals

Some ways to change your life without trying all that hard

Some Ways To Kill The Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life

Sophisticated forms of procrastination

Specialization vs Generalization

Status Quo Bias and Disrupting the Status Quo

Stay away from miserable people

Stay away from people that betrayed you in the past

Stay away from people that resent your growth

Stick to the resources that you already have

Stoicism

Stop Answering Your Kid’s Questions

Stop doing list

Stop flitting about topics

Stop Giving Smartphone to Your Kids

Stop Managing Your Time And Start Owning it

Stop Spending So Much Time In Your Head

Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate

Stop taking advice from super successful people

Strive For Progress, Not Perfection

Structured Learning

Studies show that kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests

Stupid Advice - You will Never Be Rich Working for Somebody Else

Subconscious mind

Success

Surprising Ways to Beat Anxiety and Become Mentally Strong–According to Science

Survivorship bias

Switch-cost effect and Attention Residue

Systems and Goals

Tactical Retreat

Take care of your brain

Take short breaks, early and often

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking

Tall poppy syndrome

Teach others what you know

Team work

Telling the truth

Temptation bundling

The 5-Minute Clean Routine

The Attention Diet

The Baloney Detection Kit

The best approach to teach yourself anything and be good at it

The Best Music for Productivity is Silence

The Best Summary of How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

The challenges of the disengaged mind

The Chaotic Path of Improvement

The commodification of our attention span

The Concept of Introspection

The Concept of Solipsism

The Dark Side of Resilience

The difference between knowing and understanding

The enemy effect

The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

The formula for Trust

The gift of choice

The happiness ruse

The hardiness factor

The Hedgehog and the Fox

The ideal length of time for focused work

The importance of Coaching and Mentors

The joy of Mastery

The Meaning of Competition

The Meaning of Winning

The method of the 12 favorite problems

The most successful Fortune 500 CEOs share one similar trait

The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works

The nature of Truth and Reality

The Nexus Method: How to make the most of what you learn

The People Who Don’t Read Books

The problem of too many open tabs in a browser

The Problem With Intellectuals

The procrastination-anxiety vicious cycle

The Pyramid mindset

The root node

The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship

The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty

The theory of concentration

The Tragedy of the Commons

The True Value of a Piece

The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning

The Worst Advice I Ever Received Was - Follow Your Passion

There is more to life than being happy

There is No Intelligent Design. Just start doing things with mistakes and learn from them.

There is no substitute for learning from experience

Think small to accomplish big things

This Is How to Age with Elegance

This Weird Research-Backed Goal Setting Hack Actually Works

Thoughtfully prioritize things

Thoughts about book clubs

Time management and productivity porn can backfire on us

Tips to become a morning person

Top 10 Elon Musk Productivity Secrets for Insane Success

Top-down vs Bottom-up approach to learning

TV shows - Deadwood

TV shows - Napoleon

TV shows - Street food Latin America and Street food Asia

TV shows - The Bear

TV shows - The Man in the High Castle

TV shows - The Penguin

TV shows - The playbook - A coach’s rules for life

TV shows - The Wire

Two critical neural networks of the brain

Types of reading

Understand that providing negative feedback is an act of caring

Unproductive habits - Checking Things

Unproductive habits - Ignoring Your Health

Unproductive habits - Neglecting Your Personal Education

Unproductive habits - Not Having Goals

Unproductive habits - Not valuing your time

Unproductive habits - Overworking

Unproductive habits - Relying On Your Memory

Unproductive habits - Worrying

Until I Was a Man, I Had No Idea How Good Men Had It at Work

Use Complexity Partitioning when you are Overwhelmed by things

Use Logic, Imagination and Creativity when you take notes

Use strategic mindset to learn things and overcome challenges

Using interesting moments in tasks as self-imposed cliffhangers for later makes it easier to return to them and finish them

View learning as a process

Walt Whitman on What Makes Life Worth Living

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

Want to improve focus and productivity? Do one thing at a time

We are What We Choose

What are Principles and Mental Models?

What are You Going to Be Exceptional at in 10 Years

What can we learn from the secret habits of genius

What Do You Want to Do With Your Life

What is Self 2?

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones

What Know-It-Alls Don’t Know, or the Illusion of Competence

What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others?

What our shelves of unread books teach us about ourselves

What’s the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content?

When Jamie Dimon was fired from Citigroup, he didn't let the incident knock his self-confidence and turned it into a turning point in his career

Where can we find good Principles and Mental Models?

Where does learning begin?

Why Breathing Is So Effective at Reducing Stress

Why do we procrastinate?

Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?

Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered

Why not you

Why Simply Hustling Harder Won't Help You With the Big Problems in Life

Why Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser

Why time management is ruining our lives

Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

Why working quickly is more important than it seems

Why Working Smarter is a Productivity Trap and why it will Burn You Out

Why you are not as productive as you want to be

Why You Should Have a Field Manual for Your Life

Willpower

Willpower is not the Key to Success - Environment design is

Work hard

Write about what bothers you

Write down your decision-making criteria whenever you make a decision

You do not need to quit your job to make

You have the primary responsibility to do something if your life is not how it should be

You Must Be The Master of Your Own Kingdom

You must change your life by making tough life decisions

You need goals and vision. Stop wasting your Life.

You Need To Know Where You Are

You will lose

Your daily and normal life can only be filled with those things you highly value

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