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Expanding your Circle of Control
Reduce irrelevant information and spend more time exploring the topics relevant to you, by:
- Improving job skills.
- Experimenting with new interests.
- Creating more work/art.
- Getting intentional with your learning.
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Double sword technology
The idea of evaluating how we spend our time is a healthy one, but the discussion usually looks more like an apocalyptic prediction than actual useful advice.
What we tend to leave out is the fact that emerging technologies are a double-edged sword: the internet can both be a mindless d...
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Circle of Control vs. Circle of Concern
You should search only for helpful information that you can and will apply to your life far more often than you let random information interrupt you.
The Circle of Control is anything that relates directly to you, information that improves how you spend your time.
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Quality output demands quality input
Among the catastrophic debates over how TV and the Internet are making us mindless robots, the real problem to keep in mind: we need to cultivate more than we consume.
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Evaluate how you spend your time
99% of the information you see won’t matter to you.
Understanding where your time is going is far more important and useful than demonizing TV, the Internet, or mainstream news.
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Excessive passivity
This is the habit of only consuming the information that is brought in front of you, rather than actively cultivating knowledge in areas that are valuable to you.
Addressing this problem can be done in a pragmatic way: consider it a habit audit, or an honest look at how you are spending you...
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Your most valuable resource is time. Yet, most spend their time working on other people's goals.
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Upgrading your brain
Integrating new, better approaches to thinking does not lead to immediate improvements. It takes lots of time and repetition, just like any other skills.
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