Once you start saying 'No' to unnecessary things, you'll automatically say 'Yes' to the things that matter most to you.

#1. Learn to Say 'No' More

Whether you have a business plan, a new startup idea, or an event that changed your life, jot it down with details in your journal.

#2. Journal Everyday

<ul><li>A normal human has around 6,200 thoughts each day which means 258 thoughts per hour. </li><li>To make your mind at peace, you need to sit in silence each day for at least 5-10 minutes.</li></ul>

#3. Sit in Silence

Most of us React to things that make things difficult for us. Instead of reacting start responding to things.

#4. Don't React; Respond!

Use 5 Second rule.Count down from 5 to 1 and start doing the work which must be done at the moment, instead of how you feel.After some time you'll be in momentum.

#5. Take Action Fast

<ul><li>It helps you grow personally, professionally, and Financially.</li><li>It will make you more likable and interesting as you have got a vast domain of knowledge.</li><li>Confidence: It will boost your confidence as you can speak about anything at any time anywhere.</li><li>It will change your personality from the very core.</li></ul>

#6. Read A lot

<ul><li>Instead of blaming yourself for procrastination or unhealthy behavior, notice what prompted you to do so in the first place.</li><li>Once you find the Cue for your habit you can direct that to some beneficial habit and form a new and meaningful pattern.</li></ul>

#7. Observe Your Pattern

<ul><li>Your life will start changing the moment you stop complaining and start executing things.</li><li>Take charge of your own life and don't blame situations and people.</li><li>You can't change what happens to you at large but you can control how to deal with it. That makes all the difference.</li></ul>

#8. Stop Complaining And Start Doing

<ul><li>Drinking water can make your mind calm and you can think clearly.</li><li>It will help you rehydrate.</li><li>Water can also be proven to make your skin glow.</li></ul>

#9. Drink A Lot Of Water

Do whatever improves your life. It must get you closer to your goal in life or make you financially independent.

#10. What Can You Change Today To Make Your Life Better?

These ideas change me from the very core and enhance my life.

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Personal Development

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Habits

10 Micro Habits To Improve Your Life In The Next 10 Days

In a world where information is freely available, focus becomes one of the most valuable commodities in the workplace. Productivity is not about getting more things done; it’s about getting the right things done.The core idea is a productivity system to help you focus on working on the right things. First, you’ll stop and define what productivity means to you by formulating, evaluating, and reformulating. Then, you’ll cut the nonessentials by eliminating, automating, and delegating. Finally, you’ll act by consolidating, designating, and activating.

The Premise Of The Book

Formulate: Decide What You WantTrue productivity starts with being clear on what you truly want. The objective of productivity shouldn’t be efficiency or success, but freedom. Productivity should ultimately give you back more time, not require more of you.Freedom to:<ul><li>Focus</li><li>Be Present</li><li>Be Spontaneous</li><li>Do Nothing</li></ul>You should design your life first and then tailor work to meet your lifestyle objectives.

The Free to Focus productivity system: Stop

Start by defining what your productivity ideal looks likeThen break it down into a few powerful and memorable wordsFinally, clarify the stakes by outlining exactly what you stand to gain if you achieve that vision and what you will lose if you don’t

Free To Focus: How To Formulate

You can evaluate tasks, activities, and opportunities based on two key criteria:
<ul>
<li>Passion: work you love and energizes you</li>
<li>Proficiency: how well you actually do something that generates results that other people can measure and reward</li>
</ul>
To determine where you are right now use a tool called the Freedom Compass.

Evaluate: Determine Your Course

<ul>
<li>Desire Zone. Where your passion and proficiency intersect. Here is where you make your most significant contributions.</li>
<li>Distraction Zone. Things you are passionate about but have little proficiency for.</li>
<li>Disinterest Zone. Things that you’re proficient at but aren’t that passionate about. </li>
<li>Drudgery Zone. Tasks for which you have no passion and no proficiency. </li>
<li>Development Zone. How to gauge work outside your Desire Zone but potentially moving toward it. </li>
</ul>
True productivity is about doing more of what is in your Desire Zone and less of everything else.

The 5 Zones of Productivity

<ul>
<li>Sleep. 7-10 hours per night. Turn off screens an hour before bedtime.</li>
<li>Eat. Eat natural foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, and meats. Be mindful when eating out. </li>
<li>Move. Exercise itself is an energizer. Physical activity primes our brains to operate at a higher level.</li>
<li>Connect. Some people charge you up while others drain you. </li>
<li>Play. You need regular injections of recreation, exercise, and outright play into your busy schedule.</li>
<li>Reflect. Strive to make time for reflection every day by journaling or meditating.</li>
<li>Unplug. Create rules to help you disconnect during nights, weekends, and vacations.</li>
</ul>

Rejuvenate: Reenergize Your Mind and Body

If we want to be free to focus, we must eliminate everything standing in our way. That doesn’t mean simply saying no to a lot of bad ideas; it also means turning down a ton of good ideas.Everything outside your Desire Zone is a possible candidate for elimination.The yes-no-yes strategy to give a “positive no”:<ol><li>Yes. Say yes to yourself and protect what is important to you. </li><li>No. The answer continues with a matter-of-fact no that is clear and sets boundaries. No wiggle room or ambiguity.</li><li>Yes. End the response by affirming the relationship again and by offering another solution.</li></ol>

Cut: Eliminate To Flex Your “No” Muscle

<ul><li>Take responsibility for making the commitment</li><li>Reaffirm your willingness to honour your commitment</li><li>Explain why honouring your commitment is not the best outcome for the other party</li><li>Offer to help solve the problem with them</li></ul>How to create a Not-To-Do List:<ul><li>Start with the obvious candidates for elimination</li><li>List the meetings, relationships, and opportunities you should never pursue</li></ul>

The Not-To-Do List: Renegotiate Existing Commitments

<ul>
<li>Self. Use rituals to make it easier for you to follow through on your highest priorities. The 4 Foundational Rituals: morning, evening, workday startup, and workday shutdown.</li>
<li>Template. Automate repetitive tasks with templates.</li>
<li>Process. Write an easy-to-follow set of instructions for performing a job or sequence.</li>
<li>Tech. Focus on the type of tool you need more than which tool you use. The 4 essential tools: email filtering, macro-processing, text-expansion, and screencast</li>
<li>To streamline your tasks, mark candidates for automation and pick one to tackle today. </li>
</ul>

Automate: Subtract Yourself from the Equation

Delegation means focusing primarily on the work only you can do by transferring everything else to others who are more passionate about the work or proficient in the tasks.Some of us refuse to delegate by convincing ourselves we can’t afford it.But the hours you spend on Desire Zone tasks will always be more profitable than the time you’re wasting anywhere else, so the cost of delegation pays for itself—and then some.

Delegate: Clone Yourself—or Better

<ul><li>Decide what to delegate.</li><li>Select the best person.</li><li>Communicate the workflow.</li><li>Provide the necessary resources.</li><li>Specify the delegation-level</li><li>Give them room to operate.</li><li>Check in and provide feedback as needed.</li></ul>

How to delegate:

<ul>
<li>Level 1. You want the person to do exactly what you’ve asked them to do—no more, no less.</li>
<li>Level 2. You want the person to examine or research a topic and report back to you.</li>
<li>Level 3. You’re giving the person more room to participate in the problem-solving process but you are still reserving the final decision for yourself. </li>
<li>Level 4. You want the person to evaluate the options, make a decision on their own, execute the decision, and then give you an update after the fact.</li>
<li>Level 5. You hand the entire project or task over to someone else and exit the decision altogether.</li>
</ul>

The 5 Levels of Delegation

Design your work to focus on just one thing at a time.
<ul>
<li>Batching: lumping similar tasks together and doing them in a dedicated block of time</li>
<li>MegaBatching: organizing entire days around similar activities to enable you to stay focused and build momentum.</li>
</ul>

Act: Consolidate and Plan Your Ideal Week

<ul>
<li>Front Stage. The tasks for which you’re hired and paid. The key functions, primary deliverables, the line items on your performance review. If it delivers the results for which your boss and/or customers are paying you, that’s Front Stage work.</li>
<li>Back Stage. Includes elimination, automation, and delegation plus coordination, preparation, maintenance, and development. The tasks necessary for Front Stage performance.</li>
<li>Off Stage. Refers to time when you’re not working. Off Stage is crucial to restoring your energy so you have something to offer when you come back to the stage.</li>
</ul>

The 3 Categories Of Activity

<ul><li>Stages. Decide for each day if you’ll be Front Stage, Back Stage, or Off Stage. Reserve at least two days for Front Stage.</li><li>Themes. Indicate what type of activities you’ll do on individual days during certain blocks of time. An easy way to start is to think of the morning, workday, and evening.</li><li>Activities. Group the individual activities that will fall into those themes.</li></ul>

How to Plan Your Ideal Week in 3 Steps

You need to systematically decide what deserves your attention now, what deserves your attention later, and what doesn’t deserve your attention at all.How to do a weekly review:<ul><li>List Your Biggest Wins</li><li>Review the Prior Week</li><li>Review Your Lists and Notes</li><li>Check Goals, Projects, Events, Meetings, and Deadlines</li><li>Designate Your Weekly Big 3 Things to Accomplish</li><li>Plan Your Rejuvenation</li></ul>

Designate: Prioritize Your Tasks

Spend 95% of your time on Quadrant 1 and 2 activities. Clear Quadrant 3 tasks quickly (delegate what you can) and eliminate all Quadrant 4 tasks.How to design your day:Plan days solely focused on tasks and refuse any meeting requests for that dayShoot for three, and only three, key tasks each day (your Daily Big 3). Let your Weekly Big 3 inform your Daily Big 3.Schedule time to do your Daily Big 3 on your calendar

The Eisenhower Matrix

<ul>
<li>Limit instant communication. Turn off your notifications and opt for delayed communication whenever possible.</li>
<li>Proactively set and enforce boundaries. Inform the relevant people you’re going offline for a period to focus on by setting an autoresponder for your email. Sell your boss why you need time for deep, focused work.</li>
</ul>

Activate: Beat Interruptions

<ul>
<li>Fight technology with technology. Example: _Freedom _lets you customize what apps and websites you can access during dedicated periods of deep work.</li>
<li>Listen to the right music. Background music that’s familiar, repetitive, relatively simple, and not too loud can aid focus.</li>
<li>Take charge of your environment. Make your workspace work for you. Optimize your current workspace for focus by eliminating distracting items.</li>
<li>Declutter your workspace. Make an appointment with yourself on your calendar to organize your office.</li>
<li>Increase your frustration tolerance. Train yourself to focus with hard tasks.</li>
</ul>

How to beat distractions:

True productivity is about doing more of what is in your desire zone and less of everything else.

Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great. Most people think productivity is about finding or saving time. But it's not. It's about making our time work for us. Just imagine having free time again. It's not a pipe dream. In Free to Focus, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt reveals to readers nine proven ways to win at work so they are finally free to succeed at the rest of life--their health, relationships, hobbies, and more. He helps readers redefine their goals, evaluate what's working, cut out the nonessentials, focus on the most important tasks, manage their time and energy, and build momentum for a lifetime of success.

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Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great. Most people think productivity is about finding or saving time. But it's not. It's about making our time work for us. Just imagine having free time again. It's not a pipe dream. In Free to Focus, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt reveals to readers nine proven ways to win at work so they are finally free to succeed at the rest of life--their health, relationships, hobbies, and more. He helps readers redefine their goals, evaluate what's working, cut out the nonessentials, focus on the most important tasks, manage their time and energy, and build momentum for a lifetime of success.

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Free to Focus

In many parts of the world, there’s a deeply ingrained belief that sunny days make us feel more cheerful. It seems like common sense, but the scientific evidence is surprisingly equivocal.
Yes, there are individual studies supporting the link – for instance, in 2013, researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin reported that people surveyed on exceptionally sunny days felt more satisfied with life than people surveyed on cloudier days.

How The Sun Influences Our Mood

Flipping things around, even the idea that many of us are more prone to depression in the gloomier the winter months (known as ‘seasonal affective disorder’) is controversial. While too much sunshine is undoubtedly bad for your unprotected skin, sunlight exposure is also beneficial in many ways because it allows the body to create more vitamin D, which can <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07315724.2015.1039866">reduce the risk of cancer</a> and <a href="https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/441266">lower blood pressure</a> among other health benefits.

Just The Right Sunlight

Morning exposure to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352721817300414">sufficient daylight</a> is also important for entraining the circadian rhythm, which is important for healthy sleep. So, while excessive sunbathing is unwise, so too is closeting yourself indoors without any sunlight at all.

The Morning Sun

It's worth making the most of the sunshine, but be sure to keep your skin protected.

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Does sunshine make us happier and healthier? | BBC Science Focus Magazine

<ul>
<li>Gratitude: Think of how life could be worse. Be happy those things are not real. Appreciate the good things that are real. </li>
<li>Reciprocity: I’ll say something nice to that stranger next time I’m at Starbucks if you do the same. Deal?</li>
<li>Altruism: Volunteer. Offer your knowledge or expertise to help someone. Think of it like bragging except instead of being a jerk you’ll be an awesome person.</li>
<li>Choice: You can choose to do something different. Or you can choose to see things differently. You have a choice. </li>
<li>Enjoyment: Go have fun. If you don’t you will become your own worst-case scenario.</li>
</ul>

The Five Rituals To Make Your Life Awesome

If you want a better a life, a big big part of it comes down to connection. Here's what neuroscience says leads to an awesome life...

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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Rituals That Will Make Your Life Awesome - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Ultralearners are people who can learn and acquire new skills in a short time frame. These people must be aggressive and strategic with their learning approaches. An example of this is Eric Barone. Eric was a theater usher who decided to create his own computer game. He was a recent IT graduate who had to compete with huge companies with massive budgets. That said, Barone refined his mechanics over five years by adopting an aggressive trial and improvement approach.

1. Ultralearners Are Quick Learners

Eventually, Barone released Stardew Valley. The game sold over three million copies in its 2016 release year. This monumental sales rate placed him on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. So, ultralearning can help you stay competitive within the professional world.

Meta-learning should always be the start of your ultralearning journey. Meta-learning is the process of learning how to learn effectively. To start implementing meta-learning, you must first establish how information is structured in your chosen field. This means you should avoid just absorbing random information.Meta-learning requires you to look at the big picture and develop an optimal learning strategy.

2. Develop an Optimal Learning Strategy

Scott Young offers three approaches to help you identify your optimal learning strategy:<ol><li>Create a Metalearning Map</li></ol>These maps should break your topic down into 3 categories: 1.1 - Concepts: relate to what you need to understand.1.2 - Facts: relating to what needs to be memorized.1.3 - Procedures: relate to what needs to be done. You must appreciate that not all skills will require all 3 procedures. E.g; learning a basketball shot will require you to focus on the procedure almost entirely. Once you have considered each of the categories, you should focus on the most relevant category.

2. Use the Map to Identify ChallengesAfter establishing your meta-learning map, you must identify which aspects of learning might prove challenging. After noting these challenges, you should brainstorm techniques to overcome them. These techniques often require you to engage with a specialist activity, like spaced repetition, if you have to remember lots of information.

3. Establishing How You Are Going to LearnThe best way to establish how you will learn is by researching others who have already acquired a similar skill. Their approach can be used as a benchmark. You can then replicate their methods and techniques with your own unique twist.

Sharpening your knife is Young’s analogy for refining your focus. One of the most effective modern approaches to sharpen your knife is removing electronic temptations. For example, switch off your email notifications and stop binge-watching Netflix. The first challenge to refining your focus will always be getting focused in the first place. The author suggests tricking your brain into thinking you are focused. Set a timer and promise yourself that you can stop working when the timer goes off. You may find that you have built the momentum to continue working by the end of these three minutes.

3. Identify a Clear Focus

The Pomodoro technique is potentially the most effective way to use timers like this. With this technique, you need to set a timer for 20 minutes. After these 20 minutes, you can take a five-minute break. After the break, set another timer for 20 minutes and repeat.After using these techniques to develop focus, you must learn how to sustain your focus. The issue with building momentum while working is that you may fall into autopilot. Autopilot tricks you into thinking you are productive, but in reality, you have lost your focus.

The best way to tackle autopilot is to use interleaving. Interleaving is the act of breaking a project into several short and regularly-spaced sessions.Finally, monitor your attention and arousal levels and decide on which task to tackle based on these levels. For example, if you feel intense with a narrow focus, you should choose a repetitive task. Conversely, if you are relaxed with a wide-ranging focus, you should choose a creative task.

Formal education provides knowledge related to an indirect path between your learning context and the target environment. For example, we learn French in a classroom, rather than asking a French person for directions. So, it is unsurprising that we struggle to apply our French schooling in the real world. Scott Young recommends making the path between your learning experience and application experience as direct as possible.

4. Learning Helps Make Your Journey More Direct

To hone your directness, you need to start learning things by doing. Young also calls this approach project-based learning. Situating your learning directly in your target environment means you skip the challenge of transferring your skills. Arguably, the most effective way to adopt project-based learning is immersive learning—for example, a French student spending a year working in France. The author admits that some skills are unsafe to immersively learn, like flying a plane. But you can engage in a similar environment to an immersive environment through simulations.

Elite athletes, piano prodigies, and successful ultralearners all perfect their techniques to maintain their competitive edge. Start practicing a skill by adopting what Young calls the direct-then-drill approach. Start with a direct approach to your skills, so you can identify the areas you need to hone in on. Then, drill through the skills you need to hone and return to direct practice until you notice more skills that need drilling.

5. The Direct-Then-Drill Approach

To optimize your drilling, apply yourself to a rate-determining step. In ultralearning, this is the step that unlocks the next level of knowledge. Identify these steps and then adopt one of the following approaches: First, you can time-slice by isolating one step & repeating it until perfection. But you can only adopt this approach if you can easily isolate a step from the entire process. If you can't, you can always separate a skill into cognitive components and time-slice them. Alternatively, you can use the copycat method. Choose an idol who excels in the area you want to improve & emulate.

Testing yourself is often an effective way to improve your ability to retrieve a skill. Young offers two methods to improve retrieval rates. Firstly, you can review your learning materials. Specifically, go back over the materials you used when you first studied this topic. The alternative to recall facts and concepts from memory is significantly more effective. Young cites a 2011 study from Purdue University that found recall is far more effective for long-term learning retention. Despite this, most learners fall back on reviewing old material.

6. Improve Retrieval Rates Through Testing

The issue with reviewing is also the same reason it is such a popular technique. When we review content, we often understand and recognize the content. So, we assume we have learned that concept. This is a passive approach to learning and is a faulty judgment of learning. Although the recall is often more difficult, this struggle in the short term helps you remember in the long term. Retrieval offers a desirable level of difficulty.

The following are retrieval approaches you can use to improve your learning:<ol><li>Test yourself or challenge yourself to write down everything you can remember. </li><li>Avoid taking notes while reading. Instead, pose questions that will prompt you to retrieve the information.</li><li>Set yourself a task that will test everything you have learned.</li></ol>

Even if you believe you excel in a field, you still need to accept feedback to continue progressing and improving. Almost all feedback is valuable, but some feedback is more helpful than others. Firstly, Young considers outcome feedback. This is the most basic form of feedback and involves determining whether you have reached your desired outcome. This type of feedback can be encouraging but often lacks enough information to make meaningful changes.

7. Outcome, Informational and Corrective Feedback

The next type of feedback is informational feedback. Informational feedback involves highlighting problem areas and isolating mistakes based on the moment you receive the feedback. For example, when an audience member walks out of your speech.The final and most effective form of feedback is corrective feedback. This type of feedback tells you precisely what you are doing wrong and how to rectify it moving forward. When obtaining feedback, you should accept all feedback. But you should always prioritize corrective feedback, then informational feedback, and finally, outcome feedback.

In 2015, Nigel Richards won the World French Scrabble Championships. The remarkable thing is he did not speak French. Despite the 386,000 French words approved by Scrabble, Richards could win by committing these words to memory. This is a perfect example of ultralearning.To become highly effective, you will need to commit important information to memory. Don't commit things to memory in one burst. Avoid cramming and space out your memorization sessions so you can remember the information long-term. So, make the time a few days per week to memorize the information.

8. Avoid Cramming Information

Spaced repetition is potentially the most effective technique to learn information. Test your knowledge of discrete chunks of information in a randomized way. If you can easily remember a topic, you can push it further back in your revision schedule. On the other hand, you should revise the topic you have difficulty with sooner. Attempting to retain information while it is difficult will create stronger long-term memories.

Having a deep understanding of a topic enables you to develop intuitions filled with connections and patterns. If you can accelerate your knowledge of a topic, you can become highly impactful through your intuition. Young provides several ways to speed up your acquisition of the knowledge required to intuit:<ol><li>Ask stupid questions because they will allow you to build the strong foundation required to develop intuition.</li></ol>

9. Knowledge Supplies Intuition

2. Push yourself into challenging learning experiences that can lead to a deeper grasp of the subject. So, never run away from challenges or take shortcuts. Always choose the more extended solution to a problem. 3. Do not give up when things become difficult. Instead, implement a struggle timer whereby you tell yourself that you have to attempt to overcome the challenge for a chosen period.4. Finally, try to develop your understanding of your topic. You should also develop a level of understanding that allows you to question the common concepts and theories.

Young uses Vincent Van Gogh as an example for this final principle. Van Gogh was an art school dropout who was consistently described as an unremarkable painter. Today, he is considered one of the greatest artists ever to live. He achieved this success through consistent experimentation. His distinctive art style changed considerably from his early years. He did not immediately hit on his distinctive esthetic. So, Young describes experimentation as ultralearning’s secret ingredient.

10. Experimentation Is What Makes You a Genius

The first approach you can adopt to experiment is copying and then creating. Emulate someone else’s work, and then use this to test your own ideas. One way to improve the efficiency of your experimentation is to set limits on your creativity. Working within strict limits can force you to try a process you never normally would.

Ultralearning is a strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning. Self-directed means you can take back control, rather than wait to pay for expensive tuition and tutors. Aggressive means that instead of spending years at something without getting great, your limited time and effort are always directed towards what works.

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education. In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

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Learning & Education

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

Scott Alexander Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.

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Ultralearning

In what became one of his final interviews before his death, Crazy John’s founder John Ihan sat with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/reubenbuchanan/">Reuben Buchanan</a> to discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur -how he did it.<ol><li>Always have humility</li><li>Be Compassionate</li><li>Be ruthless with your business strategy, but not with individuals</li><li>Always give back to the community</li><li>Whatever you do pick something you love and never ever give up</li><li>Takes risks and learn from your mistakes</li></ol>

Crazy John’s Founder on Principles of Success and Happiness

Many people accomplish a little bit and decide that they are experts, John’s principle of humility keeps you aware of your weaknesses, and leaves room for constant growth and learning. Humility helps you acknowledge your vulnerability to bias and keeps you open to feedback on your blind spots and habits.

1. Always have Humility

Compassion can be understood as recognition of suffering, with an emotional feeling, and a desire to do something to end that suffering. People always remember those who patiently showed them compassion, in their time of distress. However to effectively practice compassion, it’s important that you start with yourself.

2. Be Compassionate

As an entrepreneur you must be able to nurture a culture that embraces change. For that to happen, a clear, coherent strategy outlining your agenda is essential. You will need a clear vision for your company’s future and you should be willing to commit resources and implement the needed policies needed to make change happen. However as mentioned above remember to always show compassion to your stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers etc.) as your relationship with these people would be greatly impact your success or failure.

3. Be Ruthless with your Business strategy, but not with Individuals

If you treat your staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

Not only will your kindness influence others, but studies show it’ll also <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/generosity-health_n_4323727">make you happier, too</a>. Being a compassionate person and helping others can help solve some of society’s biggest problems. Find a way that you can share your unique talents or time with a local shelter, an elderly home or at children’s school.

4. Always give back to community

Do what you love is career advice that’s easy to give, but hard to follow, because we can’t always accurately predict what kind of job we’ll love until we’re actually doing it or maybe we love doing a lot of things.

5. Whatever you do, pick Something you love and Never ever give up

<ul><li>What can I do better than others? Think about what you’re really good at, and how you could use the skills where you have an edge in order to get results.</li><li>What problems do I want to solve? This question is productive because it helps you identify your values and the issues you care about, without confining you to a narrow role.</li><li>How do I want to be known? What you do for a living often informs other people’s impressions of you—as well as your own self-image. </li></ul>

Questions to help you choose the right career:

Challenge yourself to take a risk each day, do something new or differently, anything that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Risks help to push your mind beyond its comfort zone.

6. Takes Risks and Learn from your Mistakes

These are ideas on success from the words of the late John Ihan Crazy John's founder.

In what became one of his final interviews before his death, Crazy John's founder John Ihan sat with Reuben Buchanan to discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur -how he did it. Using this interview and others, journalists Nick Gardner and Stephen Corby came up with the following Golden rules for success. Always…

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Leadership & Management

"You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

When you have an alarm, many people just click the snooze button. Wake up early to refresh yourself and spend time for exercise. Try to put your alarm a few meters away from you so that you must get out of bed making you wake up.

Alarms

An ideal time to wake up is at 5-6 to get dressed and do your daily hygiene. After that you should spend the time to exercise  for about half an hour like some yoga or some training you can find on the internet.

Exercise 

Meditation has been in our generation for many years and is still very productive to this day. For 20 minutes of your time sit and think of absolutely nothing. It resets your brain to prepare for the day. You will find over a course of time meditation will reduce stress, pain, depression, anxiety, and more.

Meditation 

H20, it's important to drink water throughout the day.  It keeps your mind awake, the less water you drink it causes dehydration. Water keeps you alive and thriving, without it you would have daytime fatigue.

Water

Setting goals help you see a direction of where you are going. Set reasonable goals. Our daily goals need to support with our weekly goals, and our weekly goals need support our monthly goals. Ultimately, this is the secret to becoming better today than we were yesterday, and becoming even better tomorrow than we were today.

Set goals

Everyday whether you're at work or at school there is always one thing that takes up the most of your energy do that first. Do the big things first then the little things.

Do the difficult

Create a task list. It doesn't matter how difficult or easy the task is write it down. The feeling of checking it off feels like you have done something in your day. And reminds you of what your priorities for the day are.

Tasks

"Life is not just watching the clock tick away"

Have a successful routine

Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we want to want, we consider technological progress good.

What is progress?

The rate of progress is accelerating, which means that an increasing number of things we like, will be transformed into things we like too much.The closest thing to "things we like too much" is the colloquial sense of "addictive".

Acceleration of progress

The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. And unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next 40 years than it did in the last 40.

Addictiveness is increasing

One sense of "normal" is statistically normal: what everyone else does.The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.

What does it mean to be "normal"?

The more things we like will mean more things we have to be careful about. Most people will not be careful about addictiveness, unfortunately. This will result in a new normality, which will define people by what they say no to.An important thing to note is that we'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive.

How to prevent addictiveness?

We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.

I have always been careful about addictions in my life and I think this article is a great read for anyone trying to understand why the world is becoming more addictive and how to protect yourself.

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Technology & The Future

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Problem Solving

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

In this book, Devora Zack shared that everyone falls somewhere in between Cacti or Snowflake personality. This will effect on how we think, perceive, react even how we speak.Knowing where we are in this personality continuum, also where our peers, family and friends in this spectrum will help us to temper our response. And this will improve our relationships in life and in work.

Working With Both And Thrive Together

In general, snowflake 'feel' and cacti more rational. About 60% women towards to snowflake and 70% men to cacti, so we cannot just assume based on gender. Carl Jung's typologi also said that everyone are somewhere in between. This also may shift througout our life and no such anyone is superior 'place' to any other.

Everyone Is Either Snowflake, Cactus Or Somewhere In Between

Finding where you and others doesnt mean you need to change people, but to know how to deal with them.See below questions and pick which one you prefer:<ol><li>Your daily to-do list OR make someone else's day</li><li>For someone you'll never see again, do you care whether they like you OR you strive to have good image</li><li>Work with direct people OR connected people</li><li>Direct OR diplomatic</li><li>Intellect and skill OR emphaty</li><li>Lead with head OR heart</li><li>Teams following procedure or teams that feel safe and value effectiveness</li><li>Leader is ability or caring</li><li>Contribute directly or by dealing with people10.</li></ol>

Find Where You And Others Are

10. Under pressure, attention and firmness OR caring and comsoderation?11. Reason OR compassion12. Share a bad news plainly OR trying to lighten the impact13. Analytical OR appreciative14. Decide based on logic and fairness OR kindness and feeling15. Value more plain truth and objectivity OR peace and belonging Count how many questions you pick on first option, more first options means more cactus you are. You rely on head,logic and fairness.More number of second options means you fall more toward snowflake. You value peace, emphaty and relationship.Or you are in between, the bridge-builder.

Take perspective of others to find the balance. Cacti might see snowflakes as illogical, but snowflakes see cacti as lack of care.Treat people not only as you would have them treat you but also as they would like to be treated. Say a simple hello and have a small talk will make a snowflake smiles and feel respected, while direct conversation works better with cacti.Knowing well how to treat people based on their personality will differentiate you from others who dont know how to do so.

Dont Stereotype, Have Consious Bias And Never Demeaning Others

Focus your attention on fine-tuning yourself rather than futilely attempting to fix others. Same experience may be perceived differently by snowflake and cacti.A group exchange in high energy can be perceived as spirited discussion by cacti but also as a potential conflict by snowflakes.

Same Event, Different Perspective

Control your thinking, what you say and what you do. If you tend to snowflake, trust your feeling. If you are cacti, leverage your logic. If you are a leader, surround your self with intermix of type. Build a team with a bit balance in number of snowflake and cacti.

Self Improve For Better Interactions

Knowing where we are, and strive side by sise

This hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the middle and merge their strengths. Readers will discover how blending with their opposite opens the pathway to being their truest selves. The famed Myers-Briggs personality scale says that Feelers (who lead with their hearts) put more weight on personal concerns and the people involved, and Thinkers (who lead with their heads) are guided by objective principles and impartial facts. This book calls them Cacti and Snowflakes—each singularly transcendent. But can people with such fundamentally different ways of making sense of and engaging with the world work together? Yes, says Devora Zack! The key is not to try to change each other. Zack says we can directly control only three things: what we say, what we think, and what we do. The best use of our energy is to focus on our own reactions and perceptions rather than try to “fix” other people. This book includes an assessment so readers can learn where they are on the Thinker/Feeler spectrum—and because it's a spectrum, readers might well be a snowcactus or a cactusflake. Then Zack helps them figure out where other people might be, guiding them through a myriad of modes of communication and motivation based on personality type. She includes real-life scenarios that show how to nurture one's nature while successfully connecting with those on the other side. As always, Zack fearlessly and entertainingly dispels myths, squashes stereotypes, and transforms perceived liabilities into strengths. And she once again affirms that, like chocolate and peanut butter, we are better together.

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