Great summarized articles from various reliable sources on how to develop yourself with practical knowledge and techniques.
What is Motivation? What are the different type of motivation? Are motivation and willpower the same? This article provides answers to these questions. Give it a quick read and enjoy.
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When it comes to reading for knowledge, the techniques presented by Mortimer Adler’s “How to read a book” are useful. The book ultimately presents the reader with 4 levels of reading (it’s worth a couple reads). Some of the levels provided require some effort, but if you want to get the most out of a book, accept internally that it’ll require some effort on your part.
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Always forgetting what you read? This second article covers aspects around how to remember what you have read, and to substantiate this, the Feynman technique is presented, which is an excellent technique to help understand and recall what you read. Let’s get into it.
Reading. We hear a lot about reading these days. We are being told to read more. Do we even know why we need to read? Do we know how we have to read? Do we know what we have to read? Having that mantra (“You have to read’) repeatedly bombarded at us can make some read with no purpose, can make others rebel and read less, and can help a few others read adequately and synthesize what they have read.
Time is a concept I have not fully appreciated throughout my life I think. For some people, it just clicks, and they understand how valuable time is, and for some it does not. Some need a drastic event to happen in their life to fully understand their mortality, while some just need some numbers (monetary value, social value etc.). At least that is what I think. In this article I present some views that helped me appreciate time a bit better. I mainly touch on the monetary and social values of time.
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This is a concise version of Atomic Habits by James Clear. The fundamentals as well as the four laws of behavior change are covered in this article. Explore, enjoy and learn.
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One-liners are usually easy to recall and understand. While going through Atomic Habits, I jotted down the one-liners that resonated the most with me and I present them in this short article. I hope you learn a thing or two from them. Enjoy.
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In Atomic Habits, James provides a number of tools to help develop better habits or break bad habits. This article proposes a number of additional exercises to raise your awareness around the habits you want to develop. Have a look at them and give them a try, you will not be disappointed.
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This article provides a multitude of tools from Atomic Habits, like Pointing and Calling, Habits Scorecard, Habit Stacking etc. Learn about them and implement them in your life for guaranteed growth.
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James proposes a framework that can allow one to create new habits or break old (unwanted) ones called The 4 laws of behavior change. The original 4 laws help in the creation of habits, while the inverse of the 4 laws help break habits.
Four Laws of Behavior Change Read More »