<ul><li>Journalling is the number one thing Clark has done to grow as a human being</li><li>The self-improvement trap is that we consume content</li><li>Don't let education and bettering yourself become entertainment</li><li>Journalling allows you to apply what you've learnt and tailor it to you</li></ul>

Your Journal

<ul><li>An increasing problem with our increasing distractions</li><li>Our attention span is less and less</li><li>More temptations than ever</li><li>Most people associate dopamine with pleasure</li><li>Dopamine is actually strongest in the anticipation of the reward</li><li>Have you ever achieved a goal and thought "is this all there is?"</li><li>It gives more juice to the old saying "it's not the destination it's the journey"</li></ul>

Dopamine Nation

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well

<ul><li>Is someone doing eight gigs or one gig, what's going to get them further?</li><li>The best companies in the world all have one thing, e.g. KFC, Google, Starbucks</li><li>The goal of this book is to end multitasking</li><li>You feel like you can do two things at once but you actually can't</li><li>Doing too many things is the antithesis to productivity</li><li>Productivity is about focus</li><li>It's so much better to go after one thing</li></ul>

The One Thing

Focus is the absence of distractions

<ul><li>Something to be said about old school classics</li><li>They have so much wisdom that they had to think through</li><li>Be useful</li><li>Enthusiasm, zest and passion is when you come alive and do your best work</li></ul>

The Essential Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

<ul><li>You have 60,000 thoughts a day and a lot of them are not positive</li><li>Most people have what Michael Singer calls the 'inner roommate'</li><li>You're actually not the voice in your head</li><li>The fact you can notice your thoughts means the inner roommate is not you.</li><li>Become the observer of your thoughts and get on your own team</li></ul>

The Untethered Soul

<ul><li>Do gamblers get more pleasure when they lose or win?</li><li>A study in "Dopamine Nation", showed that gamblers secrete almost the same amounts of dopamine whether they win or they lose.</li><li>A phenomenon called 'loss chasing'</li><li>The chase to retrieve your losses are what makes it exciting</li><li>Maybe the urge for some to continually start from zero in the self-help world is akin to loss chasing</li></ul>

Loss chasing

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