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One man's 10-year experiment to record every moment
Improving the Details
Lifelogging helps the process of examining the small things, the tiny changes one can make in one's life to improve the daily experience.
These small improvements may not be revolutionary, but they elevate the overall life satisfaction.
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Improving the Details
Lifelogging helps the process of examining the small things, the tiny changes one can make in one's life to improve the daily experience.
These small improvements may not be revolutionary, but they elevate the overall life satisfaction.
Life, Quantified
Just 10 minutes of journaling boosts your performance by 20% Examining, noting, savoring the good things, will intensify your life experiences.
Digitally capturing your daily routine and thoughts also makes them searchable, and can later act as a search engine for your past years.
Self-Reflection
A process of self-reflection helps you take a third person's perspective on things, making you an outside observer.
Whether it's a daily journal or another life-blogging tool (like a portable camera), these tools help you reflect on your own life at a later stage.
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Tips To Finding The Right Goals
- Listen to your discontent. It tells you when something is wrong. And that might be exactly what you need to correct.
- Combine it with something that inspires you to create cha...
The Aftermath Of Achieving Goals
If the goal is meaningful, it will transform us. We’ll be more confident, mature, capable of seeing even bigger adventures, and empowered to pursue them.
A quest might end better than we imagine or disastrously. Either way, there’s always another adventure if we’re willing to pursue it.
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Holmes practices mindfulness
Mindfulness means focusing on only one problem or activity at a time.
Our brain cannot do two things at once. “What we believe is multi-tasking is really the brain switchin...
Organize Your Brain Attic to remember more
The “brain attic” is Holmes’s analogy for the human mind and how we store information. Just consuming information leads to mental clutter that gets difficult to access when you need it.
We are more likely to remember something if we connect it to a sensory experience or previous action, like writing or connecting memories to smells or sounds.
Take a brain break if you want to be more creative
Holmes plays the violin, because it takes him out of his thinking mind and places him in a purely physical state.
“Taking mental holidays can be incredibly productive for creativity", even something as simple as taking a walk in the park during your lunch break instead of eating at your desk.
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