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Melis Ugurlu's avatar

I really liked how you went into people’s perception of energy and the myth of the “tank”!! Like those days one feels tempted to stay home because there’s this cloud of fatigue when actually even a little walk around the block might lift it 🩷

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Manjari Narayan's avatar

You are missing a link to Ed Boyden's video!

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Claÿton Fuller's avatar

#5 can be transformative for your thinking. Two thematically similar practices: 1) Even if it’s only in your head, try to guess the numbers to questions you have — it shifts how you retain information (ex: Guess the percentage to a question like, “What percent of people are on ongoing medications?” instead of just reading the answer), and 2) When making decisions, or evaluating options, give potential outcomes a probability of happening (ex: “50% they say no, 30% no response, 10% yes, 10% immediate phone call”).

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Diana Payne's avatar

Love it, especially resonate with the question everything presented to you, recently I listened to a audiobook on Spotify claiming to be Atomic Habits and found out after wasting 3 hours that is was not the actual book but an abridged version, I take everything at face value and am trying to inculcate the habit of putting your own brains rather than just accepting whatever is presented to you as gospel.

Also the MECE approach used in consulting is great, and it can be easily used to things in daily life and so can the 80/20 rule.

Also love the restate info presented to you as a lot of times we’re just passive reading. I have started remembering for 2 mins what all information/media I consumed during the day to remember the gist of the info presented and when I’ve for the time, I write 2-3 lines about what I learnt (like I’m doing rn XD).

Clearing the cache on Sundays is a great idea, I’ll try incorporating it, i always feel overwhelmed with all that I’ve consumed during the week and should definitely start writing more.

Thanks for the great article!!

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Diana Payne's avatar

Missed out on calculating the opponent’s best move and proceed accordingly, loved that as well :)

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Ishita Singh's avatar

Very curious about your process of synthesising topics?

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Yusuf Yusupov's avatar

thanks for sharing

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hugow's avatar

Any more reading for #3 ? It was the more interesting here for me.

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