Re Human — Week 3 Lessons— Day 21
Re-inventing ourselves is the most important skill nowadays. I’m reinventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time. This post is part of my Re Human project.
Grateful I’ve been able to do all the habits in my system every day. Didn’t post a picture of my whiteboard with the checklist of activities per day because it looks the same as last week — luckily all checkmarks. There’s some days where time feels crunched, but I just make sure I see the big picture and think of how I can remove things that don’t matter as much and identify what would give the highest leverage, which includes 8 hours of sleep. The underlying trick is to be decidedly aware of where you’re directing your attention
Lessons and Observations from each Area
Daily Habits
Meditation
Breathing Exercises at the beginning of a meditation session help with being aware of your breath, because the exercises
Writing
Some time ago, I read that “you get good at writing if you get good at rewriting”. Anyone can spit out lots of casual text in emails and texts. There’s not much improvement gains from that. But if you practice re-writing, you’re putting thought and improving each sentence you write. I’ve found this tip valuable so thought I’d share it here.
I find it hard to justify re-writing these documentation posts because the purpose of these is just to document my thought process every day for each of the areas. But I’m going to focus more on longer blog posts so I can re-write more. I also have the “daily thoughts” that I’ve been writing, which takes more time from the re-writing because there’s not much time to do that in a post that’s “published” immediately. So my idea for this week is to focus on the longer posts, and put the snippets of what I’m writing in my daily thoughts.
Piano
10 minutes a day is an “easy” and impactful system for improving at something that doesn’t require much context switching.
Books
This week I finished 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (read most of it last week), The Six Pillars of Self Esteem, and FLOW: living at the peak of your abilities. I recommend all of them but my favorite out of these three was FLOW.
My notes on these books and a couple of more here.
Amazing hack to get through books faster: listen to them at increased speeds. I’ve found the Audible app extremely valuable. If you think you’re bad at listening to books, realize it’s the same as how you started learning to read to books — practice helps.
Media Influencer
Things I’ve found useful: Capturing content is the foundation. Then putting the content together into stories. Then distribution is what gives the highest leverage.
Soccer trick juggling
Focusing on the present is crucial for improving.
Fitness
Consistency is key. Healthy body, healthy mind.
Building and Running a Startup
Take time to identify what are the highest leverage things you (and each person of your team) can do. Then focus on those. We’ve found this useful.
Weekly Habits
Music Production
Code, digital drawings, writing, music — all these forms of creating take advantage of an incredibly high-leverage fact: once you create them once, they can be distributed infinite times. Music is the media form of these I’m least good at right now, but I enjoy listening to it a lot, and everyone does too.
Digital Drawing & Painting
Realize that digital is a completely new medium that’s programmable and can thus have many advantages over physical painting. Having “Layers” is an example.
V.R. Artist and Architect
We live in a 3D world. VR allows to create very cool and engaging experience because it has the same number of dimensions we live in, but it’s programmable so you’re only limited by your imagination.
Graphic Design
Design is a way to think, make things beautiful, and make things effective.
Salsa Dancing
The more focused on the present, the better you dance.
Different & Positive Social Interaction Systems
I’ve enjoyed interacting with people through my weekly present newsletter.
Topics Deep Dives
Having a clear direction of what you’re learning is be very powerful. That’s why people learn so much in school about specific topics, but not much about specific topics apart from their work area after school.
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