Re Human — Week 14 Reflections — Day 98
We are what we repeatedly do. I’m reinventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time.
This process post is part of my Re Human project.
Something cool I did today: I wanted to see how many push ups I could do in 20minutes. I didn’t set a goal or an expectation for how many I’d do, I just started doing them. I ended up doing 913. I was sooo surprised. I think that with some more practice I’ll be able to do 1,000 in 20 minutes. I don’t usually share “day process” things on Sundays because writing takes time and I prefer replacing Sunday’s day process writing with a “weekly reflection”, but I thought this was something cool to share.
It’s almost a “new year”, which prompts people into reflection/goal-setting mode. I recognize it’s an arbitrary time, but I did come home and am setting aside a bit more time than usual for reflection and writing about things I’ve learned about the year. Something I definitely want to reflect and write about is what I have learned through this Re Human project so far.
Some questions I started asking myself as I’m writing this weekly reflection post now:
How to best convey what I’ve learned and experienced these past 100 days?
What are the most interesting things I’ve learned and experienced these past 100 days?
How will I choose what’s “most interesting”? Is it purely about “interesting” or is it also about “valuable” or “authentic” or “enjoyable”?
What process will I use to remember and compile this content?
Maybe these questions are useful to more people than just me.
This Week’s Breakthrough Realizations
Lots of these are usually things I already “know”, but that I saw again this week and realize have the potential to change someone’s life (mine or others).
Here’s this weeks’:
Habit/exercise: 30 Second Takeaways
People underestimate the value of writing things and overestimate the value of reading things.
“It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong” — Warren Buffett
Formula for suffering I had seen/thought about before but hadn’t written it down before: Suffering = pain * resistance
You can only have intentions, and things will happen by themselves.
Shift of perspective: we don’t have any problems. We have puzzles.
5W: Who: Identity. Why: beliefs and values. How: skills and tools. What: choice. Where and When: environment.
Identity is the strongest driver of behaviors. If you’re able to shape your identity you can do anything.
The reverse of “I’ll believe it when I see it” → “I’ll see it when I believe it”.
Greatest fear in modern times is FOPO: fear of other people’s opinions.
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