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To make a list start with. A brain dump. Chunk out your brain dump. Chunk out your chunks. Find out what u need to do for each task in the smaller chunk (smaller list). Start with the hardest thing in the list to prevent you from stopping.

Checklist method: task completed colour it in. If the task is halfway, colour it in diagonally. If it just started and measurable things have not be done leave blank.

Types of lists: daily, project, things to over, things to research, things to find, when those things get to you

No matter what you’re doing or how good you are, you are going to run into a thing that you don’t know how to do who fuh if you are not devoted to that thing you are good at; you will stop. However if you are simply into what you are doing, you will not stop until the you have completed it.

Obsession of something is often the seed of real excellence. It inspires new ideas, it demands they are brought to fruition with exacting care, and it drives them to completion.

It’s important to look forward into the near and far future, and make an assessment of what you truly value, so that you are not reckless with it, or so impatient that you don’t do what’s necessary to see it through to fruition.

Asking for help is not a failure unique for you. You must learn to ask for help

Providing negative feedback allows u to invest in people. Negative feedback allows them to improve if you believe they have potential. If they do not, just cut ties with them.

Deadlines are also excuse busters. They help remove the what if questions and force you to just create something’s

Deadlines in the creative clutter will help you trim the pretty branches on the decision to cut we that sidetrack you. Deadlines without a goal will cause you to spend equal times on things that don’t require equal time

You need to learn how to build a full mental picture of your project, and then you need to draw it out. Rendering it as a physical medium allows you to work out the kinks, come up with an order of operations, refine the details and also experiment. No matter how complete it is in your head drawing it out will reveal things you haven’t considered. List making id important for this

If you don’t give yourself enough room to maneuver and to mess up, neither may happen. This is the concept of tolerance in engineering.

No plans ever go exactly what they are planned like. “Travel plans gone astray are dancing lessons from God.” We must loosen our tolerance with ourselves and give ourselves the space to make mistakes. This will allow us to make anything truly great

To make anything great, you will have to collaborate with like minded people. You will have to get good at sharing not just your ideas but your vision for those ideas.

To be a manager you must give everyone complete autonomy within a narrow bandwidth. After you get people to get their buy in on the larger vision you need to strictly define their roles in the fulfilment of that vision, then you need to set them free to do their thing. You want them to involve their creativity, not just following your orders.

Your response tends to follow your emotions. Suffering drives progress. Your actions reveal how badly you want something. Reward is on the other side of sacrifice. Self-control is difficult because it is not satisfying. Our expectations determine our satisfaction.

Happiness is simply the absence of desire. It is the idea of pleasure that we chase. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Emotions drive behavior. We can only be rational and logical after we have been emotional.

Problem phase
1. Cue
2. Craving
Solution phase
3. Response
4. Reward

Integrity report as well is the following: what are my core values that drive my life and work. How am I living and working with my integrity now. How can I set a higher standard in the future

To make sure your habit continues to develop ask these three questions: what went well this year? What didn’t go so well this year? Wha did I learn?

Habits are good for allowing you to do things. However over time you will become worse at the thing because habits are automatic. Deliberate practice + habit = mastery

You have to fall in love with boredom. To do that try to get a 50/50 split of success and failure to keep you interested

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

Our genes should tell us what type of game we should play. Aim to do stuff that favours our genes because we are more likely to find that satisfying and continue to build that habit

When the punishment for doing an action comes immediately after and the punishment is more severe than the benefits, the action will not occur multiple times

Goodharts law: when a measurement becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure

When you miss one habit, thats okay. The bad part is missing it twice in a row. The moment that happens that is a new habit forming.

The reason why it is so hard for people to stick to their habit is becuase the brain is wired to focus on the present and not the future. To make it easier to focus on the future, make every time you do something that supports the future, give yourself a reward to make it feel like you are making progress. Eg. If u skip buying something, transfer the same amount to your chequing acc.

Make it impractical to perform a habit. Make it so hard that you will just give up and not do it

Use the two minute rule: something that can be completed in two minutes to kickstart a habit