Entertainment Is Experience Blocking

This is not directly form the book but I think entertainment might be "experience blocking" in the book it states how phones and tablets became experience blockers but that is not the case. It is the activities on these devices (primarily entertainment) that i...

Humans Being Synchronous Fosters Relationships

Humans being synchronous fosters relationships. It develops trust. An example is a parent and their child. The parent interacts with the child in a serve-and-return manner. The parent makes faces at the baby and the baby makes faces back, in a game o...

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Dumbphones

Smartphones but dumb. They provide the essential functions of a phone (communication over distance), having some additional features (gps, notes, calculator), without the "smarter features" (such as "high performant applications" or "entertainment"). They are harder to use...

Cost of Entertainment Is Opportunity Cost

There is a huge opportunity cost of entertainment that most people never think about. They only think about the in-the-moment pleasure they gain from indulging in enteertainment instead of what else they are missing out on by being entertained. I think th...

Social Media Is a Conformity Engine

Social media is a conformity engine, you see other people and see how their doing and you follow this. This explains my own behavior, I would copy what the people I watched did. I would play the games they played, I would pick up on the same language as them. W...

Greetings Make People Feel Closer

Beceause synchrnoous, face-to-phase, physical interactions and rituals create communion and trust, that is why people shake hands and have various other gestures. Not doing that would make people feel less communal. [[humans-being-synchronous-fosters-relationship...

Rites of Passage

In most societies there are rites of passage so people know their new roles.

This is interesting to me because it shows that we have less autonomy. It shows the impact culture has more prescisely. For example, rites of passage tell you *as the agent) your new roles (as a woman ...

Children Are Wired to Play

As a part of growing up children are automatically wires to play. "play is the work of childhood". From the perspective of evolutionary biology, children are wired to play because it helpsfoster social relationships and dynamics. It also allows them to master motor move...

Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation is caused directly by having something stimulating before going to bed. It causes truncated sleep times, longer onset to sleep, and more disturbances. To improve sleep, prevent the usage of stimulating activities (such as music, videos, social medias, interacti...

Conforming

Children have to learned to conform as a way of adopting the culture around them. This is called confromity attraction. It is positiive because it allows a child to adopt the culture of where they are, which is socially advantageous. This is why it is extremely important as a parten to...

Difficulty Popularity Graph

The more difficult it is to do or get something (more time, and effort) the less people would have done it. There are HUGE gaps in this, though, after every "mandatory-ish" training. To get from the middle 50 percent to the middle 75 percent takes more effort than 75 t...

Craftsman Mindset

Deliberate practice is the metric you want to maximize for. By maximizing deliberate practice you will become so good they cant ignore you.

A vibrant image from the book is that of Jordan, the bluegrass player. Every day he spends 3-4 hours practciing etremely diffeDifficult ch...

The idea of finding a mission is similar to the principle of exploration one should do exploration if you do not know what you want to do specifically you should do a systematic exploration .

Something that's about the book is a story by a student who wanted to go back to grad school. However when ...

• The traits that define great work are rare and valuable.This is a theory posed in this book that states:
• Because these are highly saught after, you need to offer something valuable to get a career like this
• In order to becomes this valuable, you should adopt an intentional mindset of increasin...

Ask Questions Down to Fundamentals

This is an idea that came up while reading "so good they cant ignore you". That idea comes from an example where there was a blogger that would write blogs and he would try to optimize his metrics, shower his readers with appreciation, etc. but he missed the mar...

There's a story from the book that comes from another book called [[Where Good Ideas Come From]]. In this book there are actually a lot of examples of where people from several places discover the same thing so for example people from four different countries identified sunspots in the year 1611 Oxy...

Dream Job Elixer

Dream job elixer is what you want in your job. It is highly related to the principles in [[drive]].

Control

Having more control is what you want. In an ideal job, you want a good combination of control, pristige, passion, money, but be conscious of the balance. It might be ...

Career Capital

Career capital is all of the skills, networks, knowledge, and assets you have. The higher your career capital in one field is, the more successful you'll be in that field and the more opportunity you'll have.

Career capital:

• Skills (proof of skills)
• Knowledge
• Network
• Cred...

Deliberate Practice

Deliberate practice should be a daily routine.

Q: How can I apply deliberate practice to my own work?

When it comes to deliberate pracitce the author talks about him doing delibmerate practice, which was reading a paer and understading it fully. REFLECTION: Think about this ...

Control Creates Resistence

In your career whenever you want to gain more control that typically is met with some resistance which is in general because people want to be able to control you and tell you what to do. you don't want to do this of course so that creates this conflict in order to get ...

Story of Alex Berger, he was someone that wanted to try to get into the TV industry. It is aparently very difficult to get into because everyone wants to get in. After 2 years of trying to master his craft(which in the TV industry is mastering writing his sccripts), he took charge of opportunities a...

Finding a Mission Doesn't Require a Lot of Direction

People that are currently on a good path, working on their life's mission, definitely did not have a straight path for this

In the example of Paradis, she wanted to study math, then bio, then she went on a trip and learned more about biollogic...