Goal setting gives focus

Break the first 30 minutes of complete silence up into 10-minute sets:

• The first 10 minutes is spent in writing your short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals.
• Dedicate the next 10 minutes to assessing your progress on the goals of the previous day.
• Use the last ten ...

If we focus on what matters to us in the long run, and what impacts our career, we will find that the fear of failure or the ‘internal feeling of intellectual phoniness’ is trivial.

Setting our eyes on long term goals and vision removes the temporary feelings of unworthiness.

Being proactive and thinking long-term while making decisions in the present is something that primes us for a better and deliberate future.

We start to consider the second-order consequences of our decisions, understanding that short-term thinking is too common, and long...