Imagine that you have lived your life and you are now at a vulnerable age. Then one day the first time machine (a very basic and crude one) is invented. It can only send one sentence. You use it successfully to send yourself in 2024 instructions to avoid a disaster and you in the present have just averted the event that caused you much suffering. Be it a physical incident or a bad relationship you have just missed you wouldn't know. But this is a decision that will considerably improve your future. If you successfully immersed yourself in this scenario you should feel some joy. I know I do. ✨

Second Chance Thought Experiment

A thought experiment designed to make you feel better.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Philosophy

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Personal Development

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Science Fiction

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Motivation & Inspiration

Thought Experiment 02

Observing experts is key. Watching top performers tackle tasks helps you learn effective strategies and techniques. It allows you to see the standards to aim for and identify areas for improvement.Practice and repetition solidify skills. The more you do something, the better you get at it. Consistent practice helps refine your techniques and build muscle memory, improving performance.Feedback is crucial for growth. Constructive criticism helps you understand your mistakes and learn from them. Actively seeking feedback allows you to make necessary adjustments and continuously improve.

To Enhance Your Performance, Follow the 'See, Do, and Seek Feedback' Approach

"See, do, and seek feedback"

Imitating experts helps you learn faster. You can quickly absorb effective practices by copying the methods and techniques of those who excel in your field. This approach helps you bypass the trial-and-error phase and get to proficiency faster.Break down complex information into manageable chunks. Organizing information into smaller, easily digestible parts makes it easier to remember and apply. This method reduces cognitive load and enhances learning efficiency.

See: Exploit the Power of Imitation

"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery—it’s the sincerest form of learning."

Quantity leads to quality. The more you practice, the more opportunities you have to improve and innovate. High productivity allows you to explore various approaches and find the best methods.Streamline non-creative tasks. You free up mental energy for creative and complex work by automating or simplifying routine tasks. This efficiency boosts your overall productivity and effectiveness.

Do: Leverage Productivity to Achieve Breakthroughs

"The more you practice, the luckier you get."

Use feedback to refine skills and correct mistakes. Constructive criticism helps you identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. Embracing feedback allows you to unlearn bad habits and adopt better techniques.Stay adaptable to avoid functional fixedness. Being open to new methods and perspectives helps you avoid becoming stuck in rigid thinking. Flexibility allows you to see multiple uses and solutions for a given problem.

Feedback: Learn How to Unlearn

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

Impose new constraints to break old habits. Trying new ways of doing things forces your brain to approach tasks differently. Constraints challenge you to think creatively and develop innovative solutions.Find a coach to guide your performance. A coach can provide real-time feedback and suggest adjustments, helping you improve more efficiently. External guidance allows you to focus on executing tasks while receiving valuable insights.

Unlearning Requires New Constraints and Coaching

"Unlearning is the highest form of learning."

There’s no limit to what you can learn, from quantum physics to backgammon, Hungarian, or silversmithing. Even close-up magic and tap dancing are within your reach! The important thing is not what you learn but how you learn it. Understanding the learning process empowers you, giving you the tools to take control of your learning journey.

The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible, and offering 12 maxims to improve the way we learn.Life revolves around learning—in school, at our jobs, even in the things we do for fun. Yet learning is often mysterious. Sometimes it comes fairly effortlessly: quickly finding our way around a new neighborhood or picking up the routine at a new job. In other cases, it’s a slog. We may spend hours in the library, yet still not do well on an exam. We may want to switch companies, industries, or even professions, but not feel qualified to make the leap. Decades spent driving a car, typing on a computer, or hitting a tennis ball don’t reliably make us much better at them. Improvement can be fickle, if it comes at all.In Get Better At Anything, Scott Young argues that there are three key factors in helping us learn:See—Most of what we know comes from other people. The ease of learning from others determines, to a large extent, how quickly we can improve.Do—Mastery requires practice. But not just any practice will do. Our brains are fantastic effort-saving machines, which can be both a tremendous advantage and a curse.Feedback—Progress requires constant adjustment. Not just the red stroke of a teacher’s pen, but the results of hands-on experience.When we’re able to learn from the example of other people, practice extensively ourselves, and get reliable feedback, rapid progress results. Yet, when one, or all, of these factors is inhibited, improvement often becomes impossible. Using research and real-life examples, Young breaks down these elements into twelve simple maxims. Whether you’re a student studying for an exam, an employee facing a new skill at work, or just want to get better at something you’re interested in, his insights will help you do it better.

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Strategy

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Learning & Education

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Books

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Science & Nature

Scott H. Young

Get Better at Anything

Learn how to avoid distraction in a world full of it.

Work hard with dedication to satisfy your so, not the society.

You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you.

Consistency is more important than perfection.

All the problems are stuck between "Mind" and "Matter"If you don't "Mind" it doesn't "Matter"

Everything you want is waiting for you on the other side of consistency.

Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Comfort is the worst addiction.

Your patience is your power.

Understanding is an art, and not everyone is an artist.

Situation will teach you the real meaning of life.

Ego kills beautiful relationships

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Productivity

Motivational Quotes

Pain is not designed to ruin your life. It is here, demanding your undivided attention in order to fix you.

Pain is not designed to ruin your life. It is here, demanding your undivided attention in order to fix you.

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Mindfulness

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Mental Health

What’s your pain level?

Learning requires continues practice.If you delay it the amount of knowledge into your brain will slowly start decaying.So continue the process.

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Habits

Learning leads to strong minds

𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬.

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Communication

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Love & Relationships

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Leadership & Management

A True Friend's Worth

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”- Archimedes

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.

Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day. 📚 I talk about more of such life-changing ideas in <a href="https://binsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe">my free weekly newsletter here</a>. In the next week's letter, we will talk more about this thread, combine perspectives of many others and talk about how to earn while doing what you love.

This is not a summary, nor anything of my own. This is a life-changing thread from Naval's twitter account. Follow him on X, @naval

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Money & Investments

How to get rich without getting lucky - by Naval 

“Knowledge is not power. It’s potential power. Execution trumps knowledge every day of the week.”

To reach your full potential, you need to focus on your mindset, motivation, and the methods you use. A positive mindset helps you push past limits, motivation keeps you moving forward, and good methods make learning and productivity more effective.

1. Mindset, Motivation, and Methods (3 M's):

You can unlock your brain's potential by eating right, exercising, doing brain exercises, and getting enough sleep. Jim Kwik stresses that taking care of your brain and always learning new things is key to staying sharp.

2. Boost Your Brain Power:

Kwik introduces the F.A.S.T. method for learning: Forget what you think you know, stay Active in the learning process, be in the right State of mind, and Teach what you’ve learned to others. This approach helps you absorb and retain information better.

3. The F.A.S.T. Learning Technique:

Three Key Takeaways from "Limitless" by Jim Kwik:

An instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.   JIM KWIK, the world’s #1 brain coach, has written the owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more--more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement--by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.   These “3 M’s” live in the pages of Limitless along with practical techniques that unlock the superpowers of your brain and change your habits.   For over 25 years, Jim Kwik has worked closely with successful men and women who are at the top in their fields as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life to unlock their true potential. In this groundbreaking book, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create fast, hard results.   Learn how to:   FLIP YOUR MINDSET Your brain is like a supercomputer and your thoughts program it to run. That’s why the Kwik Brain process starts with unmasking assumptions, habits, and procrastinations that stifle you, redrawing the borders and boundaries of what you think is possible. It teaches you how to identify what you want in every aspect of your life, so you can move from negative thinking to positive possibilities.   IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATION Uncovering what motivates you is the key that opens up limitless mental capacity. This is where Passion + Purpose + Energy meet to move you closer to your goals, while staying focused and clear. Your personal excitement will be sustainable with self-renewing inspirations. Your mind starts strong, stays strong, and drives further exponentially faster.   MASTER THE METHOD We’ve applied the latest neuroscience for accelerated learning. Our process, programs, podcasts, and products unleash your brain’s own superpowers. Finish a book 3x faster through speed reading (and remember every part of it), learn a new language in record time, and master new skills with ease. These are just a few of the life-changing self-help benefits. With Kwik Brain, you’ll get brain-fit and level-up your mental performance.   With the best Mindset, Motivation and Method, your powers become truly limitless.

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Problem Solving

From official website: Jim was once known as the “boy with the broken brain.”A childhood head injury at age five left him struggling in school. For a while, he even believed he could never be as good as other kids when it came to learning.Jim loved superheroes as a kid – and comic books saved him when conventional education couldn’t. Comic books taught Jim how to read…and they also kept his dreams alive that one day he, too, would find his inner superpower. As the years wore on, fate led Jim to a mentor, a friend’s father, who sent him on a journey to learn about his brain and learn how to use it.

Jim Kwik

Limitless

Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships. after you have experienced something so unspeakble, how do you learn to trust yourself or anyone else again? Or onversely, how can you surrender to an intimate relationship after you have been brutally violated

1. Though we have the capacity to destroy one another, we also have the capacty to heal one another. 2. Language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences to help us define what we know and find a common sense of meaning.3. We have the ability to regulate our own physioogy.4. We canchange social conditions to create environments in which children and adults feel safe, where we can thrive.

4 Fundamental Truths

...deep down many traumatized people are even more haunted by the shame they feel about what they themselves did or did not do under the circumstances

For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present.

The greatest source of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves

Trauma shapes us, even our bodies. Dr. van der Kolk digs deep onw how trauma shapes us and how we can rise above it.

#1 New York Times bestseller “Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller   Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

Bessel A. Van der Kolk is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Bessel A. Van der Kolk has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Bessel A. Van der Kolk's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Bessel A. Van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score

Before you do something, think about how others feel about it, and if it is a selfish or rude behavior. Try to make it better.

Think

Make a plan to do a certain action that you do daily in a different way that helps or acknowledges others around you. Just change that one thing then later on add more.

Plan

Try to be more selfless. The more you help others, the more likely they will be to help you

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How to be more considerate

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