20 Best Ideas from 2022

 The Feynman Technique to four steps to learn anything

• Identify a topic
• Try to explain it to a child
• Study to fill in gaps
• Organize convey and review
• True genius is the ability to simplify not complicate
• Simple is beautiful

Visualizing Time

• Family time is limited - Cherish it
• Friend time is limited - Prioritize real ones
• Partner time is significant - Never settle
• Children time is precious - Be present
• Coworker time is significant - Find energy
• Alone time is highest - Love yourself

Darkest Hour Friends

• Most of your friends aren't really your friends. 
• They're just along for the ride when it's fun or valuable
• The real ones are there for you when it's neither - there for you in your darkest hour
• Treasure your darkest hour friends

The Two Day Rule

• How to make new habits stick
• With whatever habit you're trying to build, never allow yourself to skip more than one day in a row
• Creates forwarding progress bu allows for the vagaries or life to enter without derailing momentum

The Surfer Mentality

• When a surfer gets upon a wave, they enjoy the moment even though they know the wave will eventually end. 
• They enjoy the ride - knowing that there are always more waves coming
• A powerful mentality for riding the waves of life

Give them their flowers

• When you think something nice about someone let them know
• It's a shame that we often wait until a person's funeral to say all of the nice things we thought about them
• The next time you have a positive thought about someone tell them right then

Time Billionaire

• Time is our most precious asset
• When you're young you are a 'Time Billionare' literally rich with time
• Too many fail to realize the value of this aset until it is gone
• Treat time as your ultimate currency it is all you have and you can never get it back

Engineered Serendipity

• Some of what we call luck is actually the macro result of thousands of micro actions
• Your daily habits can put you in a position where luck is more likely to strike
• It's possible to increase your serendipity surface area and engineer your own luck.

Free Time As A Call Option

• The idea that free time is bad is one of the greatest lies you've been told
• The reality: Free time is a call option on future interesting opportunities
• When you have free time, you have the headspace and bandwidth to pursue high upside ideas

Move for the brain

• Researchers studied the effects of a walk on the cognitive performance of a group of children
• Reading comprehension was significantly better after exercise. Spelling and arithmetic were modestly better
• Recess is sacred for children and adults alike.

Work like a lion

• Parkinson's law says that works expands to fill the time available for its completion
• When you establish fixed hours to work, you'll find unproductive ways to fill it
• Work longer, get less done
• Work like a lion instead, wait. Sprint, Rest, Repeat

Relationships

• Every relationship exists on 2x2 matrix of 4 quadrants
• How healthy it is
• How enjoyable it is 
• Relationships are healthy and enjoyable

The Eisenhower matrix

• Learn the different between important and urgent
• Important and Urgent
• Important and Not Urgent
• Not Important and Urgent
• Not Important and Not Urgent
• Prioritize, Delegate or Delete accordingly

The Paradox of Advice

• Taking more advice leaves you less well equipped
• Most advice sucks
• It's well intentioned but it's dangerous to use someone else's map of reality to navigate yours
• Winners learn to filter and selectively implement - take the signal skip the noise

The Parent Interview

Record a video interview with your parents

Ask them to tell stories about their childhood, adventures, dreams and fears

Our time with them is finite - but we often fail to recognize it until it's too late.

The experience and recordings will last forever.

The Paradox of Effort

• You've to put in more effort to make something appear effortless
• Effortless, elegant performance are often just the result of a large volume of effortful, gritty practice.
• Small things become big things. Simple is not simple

The Spotlight Effect

• Most people don't really care about you
• The spotlight effect says that we overestimate the degree to which other people are noticing our actions
• This is liberating stop worrying about what others think, be yourself and live according to your values. 

Meeting and the Brain

• Researchers studied the impact of meetings on our brains
• Back to back meetings promote stress
• Short breaks in between meetings resulted in performance improvements
• Always schedule short breaks in between your meetings

Intellectual sparring partners

• Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners
• Friends are easy to comeby
• Intellectual sparring partners are harder to find
• They will call you on your BS, question your assumptions and push you to think deeply

The Regret Minimization Framework

• The goal is to minimize the number of regrets in life
• When faced with a tough decision
• Project into the future
• Look back on the decision
• Ask will I regret not doing this
• Act accordingly
• Regret is more painful than failure

The Arena Razor

When faced with two paths, choose the path that puts you in the arena.

It's easy to throw rocks from the sidelines

It's scary and lonely in the arena - but it's where growth happens

Once you're in the arena, never take advice from people on the sidelines