The opposite of systems is an intuition-based or informal approach. What systems often encourage is creating explicit rules or guidelines which will discourage some tendencies you'd like to avoid. Getting Things Done , for instance, is a famous productivity system based on avoiding the tendency to forget what you need to do.

In any field, there are a few ideas that are core to understanding everything else. Biology makes little sense without evolution. Physics without symmetries and conservation laws is baffling. All mathematics can be built out of sets. Self-improvement isn't usually regarded as an intellectual field.

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What are the Core Ideas of Self-Improvement? | Scott H Young

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