Curious Friday : Ideas to change your life, How to make money, Stoic Life and more.
Episode - 10
Today at a Glance :
Quote : Henry David Thoreau on goal achievement
Article : 15 Ideas and frameworks that will change your life in 2022.
Tweet : Zain Khan on money making.
Podcast : The Stoic Life with Ryan Holiday.
One Quote
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau
Money, status and fame are only the end results of what you’re trying to achieve.
It’s the process that you must be focused more upon.
Take pride in the process and everything will come for you.
One Article
Ideas are the most important element in our brain that, if handled easily and calmly, could change our life but also, if handled drastically and unnaturally, could disrupt our life.
It’s the idea that strives us to do something unimaginable. It Helps us to deconstruct our pathways and tell us how to do it.
So without any further ado, let’s get started with some of the greatest ideas of all time that could change your life.
Time Billionaire : Time is the most precious asset for all of us. When you are young, you are a Time Billionaire - rich with time.
You should utilise this free hour to learn new things, explore new fields and practice new learning. So, utilise your time well and nicely.
Treat time as your ultimate currency and value it because you can't have it when it’s gone.
Darkest Hour friends : Anyone can show up in our darkest hours, but it makes all the difference who supports us and is there for us in our darkest times.
Treasure your friends and be there in their difficult times. It's all the support that you can give to them.
Engineer Serendipity : “LUCK” can occur in our life multiple times but somehow we have created it for ourselves in the past.
Luck is the “big” result of all the “small” habits and thinking that we possess in ourselves.
Your daily habits can put you in positions where “Luck” is more likely to strike.
Leverage : Archimedes once said - “Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I shall move the world.”
On making things leverage enough, you get the chances to compound your outputs by applying less minimum efforts.
Build systems to leverage your time, money, energy and see how your life will change.
Free-time : Free-time is a call option to wide open wonderful opportunities for ourselves.
It allows you to look at your future interesting ideas.
When you have free-time you can utilize it to pursue your high-upside ideas.
Decentralized friend groups : If you want to be independent in your thinking, then follow decentralized friend groups.
Centralized groups : large cluster of friends with common background and beliefs.
Decentralized groups : small groups with different beliefs and expertise.
Having decentralized friend groups is the key for Independent thoughts.
Work like a Lion : Smart work always beats hard Work in the long run.
If you’ll continue to do hard work, then you’ll get tired and get less work done.
Instead work like a Lion -
Wait for the prey
Sprint when Inspired
Rest and then repeat the process.
Build healthy and enjoyable relationships : All relationships work on a 2x2 matrix :
Healthy relationship
Enjoyable relationships
Focus on building healthy and enjoyable relationships which is a key to living a good life.
Persuasion Paradox : Be persuasive over being argumentative.
Persuasive people never argue - they ask, listen, think and decide.
Argue less, persuade more.
Persuasion is an art that requires a paintbrush, not a sledgehammer.
Inversions : “Show me the place where I’m going to die, and I’ll never go there.” - Charlie Munger.
Great people think both forward and backwards and try to solve every problem in a very systematic way.
When you ever find yourself in difficult problems - reframe it in a new form and try to draw conclusions from different perspectives.
Stop focusing on black lines, focus on green lines instead : See the below image.
Black lines = paths that are closed to you.
Green Lines = paths that are open for you.
Green lines are like the path for the future where great and wonderful opportunities are waiting for you.
Build Vs Sell : If you want to be successful, you need to learn how to build and learn to sell.
If you can build anything then you can easily sell anything, but the reverse is not true.
Immerse yourself into building new things - software, applications, websites or anything which excites you the most.
If you can build and sell things, then you can be unstoppable.
The Feynman technique : There are 4 steps to learn anything :
Explore newer fields and identify the topic
Try to explain it to a 5yr old
Study to fill in the gaps
Organise, convey and review.
Geniuses have the ability to simplify, not complex.
Wisdom Paradox : It says that - “The more I learn, the more I realise how much I don’t know.”
The more you learn the more you open wide gates for more curiosity to strive you to learn more.
This should be empowering, not frightening.
Learn more, and discover more.
Learn to say NO : Take less, accomplish more.
Success doesn’t come from wanting and accepting everything that comes your way. The important principle, I learned very late.
Accept only things that’ll empower your growth and mindset and say NO to things which’ll make your growth retarded.
Say yes to things that really matter to you and protect your time.
One Tweet
In the above thread, you’ll get the power to prosper growth and learn to make money.
Zain constructs the list of everything he knows about money-making.
Give this thread a read and see how your life changes.
One Podcast
This podcast, by one of the greatest authors and writers, Ryan Holiday, was a wonderful listen for going deeper on the topics of daily stoics. Stoicism has so much to offer in this crazy and connected world .
Give this podcast a listen and find your own ways to breathe and balance.
Listen to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
That’s it for today’s newsletter. I hope that you’ve learned something valuable and something new today.
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