1. Realize that a day is 1,440 min, of which you sleep ~440mn. You’re left with 1,000min/per day. 10% = 100min 1% = 10min 0.1% = 1min You have about 1,000 units of 1min attention per day, which you allocate. Of that, I’m spending about 10% regarding food, 5% on sport, 5% on movement.
2. Realize that double spending time is possible, because you can go on a walk and talk with a friend, run, and listen to podcast... Favorite non-obvious opportunities to double spend time: If you shave, listen to a podcast If you brush your teeth, read a physical book (too loud for podcasts)
3. By and large, trying to solve problems quickly (everyday life/bureaucracy), before they explode, is one of the simplest, easiest and most sustaining.
4. Try to reinvest a lot into learning and accelerating learning. Try to think about compounding as often as you can. Try to think about death, hardship, resistance, hormesis, and Neuroplasticity every day.
5. Realize that it’s possible to listen to podcasts on 3.5x speed, almost all videos on 2x speed. Here, truly, the block is in your head. Simply knowing that other humans are capable, and wouldn’t do it otherwise, helps you realize that yes, your own limits are far further than what you believe makes sense, too. Extremely intelligent people like Josh Wolfe, for example, listen to podcasts on 3x speed often, too.
6. There always are people smarter than you, - from which you can draw inspiration. I haven’t met many people consuming more information than I do, but they exist, and shockingly, it’s another magnitudinal scale. They somehow achieve many multiples of my own capability for input. Personally, I’ve always been inspired, not demotivated, by achievements of others, and I think such a mentality, perpetual personal hypergrowth, is helpful.
7. Often there’s most to learn from spaces you think you dislike the most. Learning general has very little to do with the feeling of flow, which happens because you already know something. Learning is resistance training, hardship and hormesis. You dislike the military? Great, please proceed if you’re more disciplined compared to them, more loyal to your friends, etc. You dislike capitalism? Great, this must mean you’re abolishing more people from poverty than IKEA, LIDL, or Amazon. You dislike religions and are an atheist? Then you’ve blocked your thinking. You’re a believer in the stars? Same thing. This is endless, but I think great thinking, knowledge from which follows behavior and actions, can explore all the intricacies of opposing forces, ideas and so on.
8. Be mediocre in many fields, see this wonderful Taleb tweet.
9. Become proficient regarding: autophagy, ghrelin, insulin, carbohydrates, hormesis, xenohormesis, all the supplements I mention [elsewhere in my Health Compounding Stack] - I can’t possibly imagine that if you simply learn what all of those things do, that you won’t be healthier than before.
10. Don’t waste your time to criticize awful stuff in life. Attention is time, attention economies are a thing, thus the other side structurally wins. Critiques are reserved for the things you love, stuff that’s loveable in the first place. Rarely stuff is so bad that one needs to step up, which is a different matter. Most of the time it’s best to simple ignore everyday insanities.