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This is great, most self-help content is overly repetitive so definitely good to have summaries like this. Tangential: Is the whole good habits thing not a bit

• anshumankmr 5y ago
  >Tangential: Is the whole good habits thing not a bit overdone at this point? I meant "Practice maketh perfect" isn't a new message -- every new generation is taught the value of discipline in schools by teachers and sports coaches, Outliers popularised the 10000 hours rule more than a decade ago. True, but as children become teenagers and teenagers become young adults, they often need their own form of guidance, and perhaps this is a new cycle that will rinsed and repeated. Sometimes , some new research can also help illuminate some best practices that somebody 20 years ago would not have known. For example, I have found the Pomodoro practice really useful for myself, and though I don't follow it to a tee, it has helped me become more productive. Plus I use Trello for personal tasks and Jira for work, that has helped me be more productive.
• Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  > most self-help content is overly repetitive so definitely good to have summaries like this. Yup, a lot of them are basically written out versions of blogposts. I mean one of the "original" self-help books, Dale Carnegie's one about people, can be summarized in a list of bullet points - the book itself is padded out with anecdotes.
• kamaal 5y ago
  >>I meant "Practice maketh perfect" isn't a new message It isn't. But it takes a lot of effort to make the obvious, obvious. That's where unfortunately you need these things. For example merely saying Where there is a will, there is a way, doesn't exactly cut it, until you actually watch somebody go so some distance doing a what you considered a impossible thing.
  • jatins 5y ago
    > until you actually watch somebody go so some distance doing a what you considered a impossible thing. Agreed which I why I would love to see more anecdotal evidence or stories supporting these messages. And by anecdotal evidence, I really mean n=1 stories not some controlled group studies. Right now it feels like everyone from a lifestyle youtuber to a VC are telling us that _this_ is the way but I don't hear/see enough people turning their lives around or achieving the so-called "impossible" just because they adopted some good habits. Basically the ratio of people striking gold to people selling shovels seems too low to me.
    • kamaal 5y ago
      >>I don't hear/see enough people turning their lives around or achieving the so-called "impossible" Makes perfect sense because hard things are hard to do, I'd like to believe a lot of people quit mid way. You will never hear from them, those that succeed become the few exceptional cases no wants to believe in because, they can't imagine themselves taking all the trouble like the drop outs to get to where the exceptions are. >>Basically the ratio of people striking gold to people selling shovels seems too low to me. Yes that's exactly how its supposed to be. Plus, the point of habits isn't to achieve goals, but have a better system in life to do things.