Philosophy is used for solving practical problems
You do not control the world around you, you only control your response to the world around you
Stoicism - operating system for making better decisions in your life
Real problem is to think that you need money for surviving
Enjoy wealth but do not think that it is key for your survival, practice voluntary poverty
Make riches serve you, not you serving to riches
The problem is not having riches, but riches having you
Tucker Max
Robert Green
Find a mentor whom you can use as a ruler to compare yourself
Jack Canfield
chicken soup for the soul
Fog of war documentary
Wall of Sound documentary
How to be a good writer?
Live interesting life, do something interesting and write about it....write only when you have something to say...unless do not write at all
If you do 1 or 2 things you will feel busy, if you do 4 or 5 things you are not that busy and things help each other
To write one book is hard, but the more you write, the easier it gets
Ryan runs everyday
Top 2 3 books
Sarah Bagwell how to live book
Ulysses s. Grant biography book
The fish that ate the whale book
Pharnam Street Shane parish blog
Maker vs Manager schedule
Paul graham essays
To be rich you need either make lots of money or limit your wants & desires
Keep your identity small, be able to live for small salary, do not develop expensive habits, otherwise when you get poor it will be difficult to live
Learn and practice financial management, save money for difficult days
Human action, technology are creating climate change and super storms
Being greedy when others are fearful, being fearful when others are greedy - Warren Buffet
Sub-reddits are great source of info
Survivorship bias
War of Art S. Pressfield book
Meditations Marcus Aurelius book
Robert Green book
Learn to read people
Gladiator movie
Shown of the dead movie
https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-4-ryan-holiday
003 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast, Kelly Starret and Justin Mager
One should sleep 8+ hours per night
Quantified self-tools
Observing deep sleep
Blood testing, one blood test is a snapshot, and continuous tests give chart and explain our internal processes
Folic acid and methylation
Better information - better decisions
Heart rate variability exercises (HRV)
Listen to yourself, to your body for improving health and life quality
Observe yourself, read people, it is easy to read people by their emotions & movements
If you know yourself, you know others
If you wake up and have no erection...then you have health issue
Sitting and office work is very bad, similar to smoking and killing yourself slowly
Improve your cognitive performance by fixing your diet, posture
To improve your thinking, mental performance, improve your physical performance, it is cheap & effective
Sleep hygiene:
Pitch dark room
It should be a little bit cold
Taking away chair at school will have major impact in health improvement of children, work in office
While working, avoid sitting for long hours
Think critically, use technology to optimize our potential
002 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast, Josh Waitskin
Playing simultaneous chess games is like juggling balls
Constantly be learning
Cognitive biases: sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, false constructs
20/80 analysis
What rules people following that are not required that I can exploit?
Who is good at skill, who shouldn't be?
Questions you ask yourself and your internal dialogue defines your thinking
Meditation is a very powerful tool at self improvement, you start seeing yourself from side to meditate sit cross legged in comfortable position, follow and return to your breath
Journaling is another useful tool for self improvement
Cultivate habit of relaxing and working, turning on and turning off set and practice morning and evening routines
Dao de Jing
Shantaram
Collect & ask questions to yourself, they define your thinking
Ghandi Lao tzu
Buddha
https://ja.player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-2-joshua-waitzkin
Constantly be learning
Cognitive biases: sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, false constructs
20/80 analysis
What rules people following that are not required that I can exploit?
Who is good at skill, who shouldn't be?
Questions you ask yourself and your internal dialogue defines your thinking
Meditation is a very powerful tool at self improvement, you start seeing yourself from side to meditate sit cross legged in comfortable position, follow and return to your breath
Journaling is another useful tool for self improvement
Cultivate habit of relaxing and working, turning on and turning off set and practice morning and evening routines
Dao de Jing
Shantaram
Collect & ask questions to yourself, they define your thinking
Ghandi Lao tzu
Buddha
https://ja.player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-2-joshua-waitzkin
001 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Kevin Rose
To make good investments, observe leaders, opinion makers and look for social trends
Be curious about everything
Be in good shape, do workouts
Annual letters of Warren Buffett
Barbell approach to investing - 20 % highly speculative investment & 80 % highly conservative & income guaranteed investment - do not gamble more than you can afford to lose
Phillip Rosedale
When one has no fear, he starts to think big Meditation practice
4hww is about maximizing productivity & per hour output
Food Inc documentary
Tell the truth, make fun of yourself before someone else will make fun of you laugh
Learn to catch a wave and use it to make profit
Practice gardening and farming as hobby when you start a business, focus on your product
https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-1-kevin-rose
To make good investments, observe leaders, opinion makers and look for social trends
Be curious about everything
Be in good shape, do workouts
Annual letters of Warren Buffett
Barbell approach to investing - 20 % highly speculative investment & 80 % highly conservative & income guaranteed investment - do not gamble more than you can afford to lose
Phillip Rosedale
When one has no fear, he starts to think big Meditation practice
4hww is about maximizing productivity & per hour output
Food Inc documentary
Tell the truth, make fun of yourself before someone else will make fun of you laugh
Learn to catch a wave and use it to make profit
Practice gardening and farming as hobby when you start a business, focus on your product
https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-1-kevin-rose
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)