This is a collection of the content I found most interesting in the past week: articles, quotes, videos, divided by macro categories.
A post on Thinkspot.com by Jordan B. Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, on the deep interconnection between how the environment you live in is organized and your psyche.
I could say, âWell, if you want to organize your psyche, you could start by organizing your room.â If that would be easier.
This is another very brief post by Jordan Peterson on thinkspot.com. It quickly analyzes how one should go as for choosing the best-suited job for oneself.
The first question isâif youâre trying to analyze something like business success or productive successâwhat are the proper domains of category? So if youâre trying to categorize jobs, for example, the simplest conceptual scheme thatâs practical is like a two-by-two matrix. There are simple jobs and complex jobs . . .
This YouTube video is a recorded lesson from 2014 in which professor Larry McEnerney explains what he considers to be the most fundamental ideas and concepts behind writing effectively in the academic world. Some fundamental teachings are:
Article by The Investor's Field guide. This is a piece contemplating the greatness of focusing on habits and on the here and now instead of setting goals and trying to achieve them. The main point in favor of habits and systems being that they do not have a deadline, whereas achieving goals is a sort of milestone after which we tend to feel lost and unsatisfied, seeking a new objective.
"To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. Thatâs literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose ten pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goalâif you reach it at allâfeeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary. That feeling wears on you. In time, it becomes heavy and uncomfortable. It might even drive you out of the game⌠If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure."
â Scott Adams
In this video, Matt DâAvella shares a valuable perspective on the one thing we need to take into account and include in our lives, especially when we are completely focused on being as âproductiveâ as possible (as in being lost in our work): balance and the importance of stepping back from the thinking mind and be more mindful of how we manage our time.
Making sure the environment we surround ourselves with is organized, properly taken care of and functional to our objectives is the key idea shared by James Clear in this article.
The environment you surround yourself with determines the default actions that you take on a dayâtoâday basis.
To make good habits easier, reduce the number of steps to do them. To make bad habits harder, increase the number of steps between you and the habit.
"When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them"
â Nelson Mandela
A step-by-step 22-day program aimed at increasing the number of pull ups significantly.
This is a YouTube video from AthleanX. It exploites high volume accumulation and specificity in order to become better at one of the best bodyweight exercises: the Pull up.