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Your efforts will always pay off.
You'll always be paid in lessons and experience.
Introspecting your feelings, ideas, and progress helps unlock those lessons.
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📈 Progress
Most systems boil down to these 3 questions:
- How much progress (relative to a goal) did I accomplish?
- What actions were effective in creating this progress?
- What didn’t work, and how can I do better?
Feel free to use more prompts to get a more detailed analy...
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😶 Feelings
Progress is great. But are you progressing on the right things?
Noticing your negative feelings can tell you what’s wrong:
- Misalignment between actions and values/purpose/goals
- Flaws in your strategy and execution
- Overexertion
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🤨 What to do with all this data?
- Double down on the actions that worked
- Re-alignment (if necessary)
- Experiment with ideas (and iterate)
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How to collect these data?
- Introspect consistently (daily, weekly, etc.)
- Record them in your note-taking system
- Refer to your records whenever needed
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💡 Ideas
As you work towards your goal, you’re likely to encounter new information and perspectives.
These can spark ideas for:
- improving your quality of work
- improving your systems & processes
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