80/20 Personal Development

The great lie underneath it all is that once you collect enough mental models, you can skip the leap of faith. You can build a propositional bridge from your current self to your ideal self, and faithlessly slide across it. A seductive idea. But wrong and useless.

The personal development / productivity space is littered with conflicting advice of varying utility. It attracts the intellectually promiscuous. Commitment-phobic concept sluts endlessly dabble with frameworks and tools, hoping to someday reach a moment of certainty when they’ll finally take action…99% of self-help is escapism.

This is a get-your-shit-together one-sheet. A safe place to return to when the marketing machine tempts you to read another book.

The key to making this all work is to align your entire psyche around something difficult but worthwhile. Perhaps the best tool we have for this is storytelling…The human ability to redeem darkness through narrative is pure magic. Cultivate this skill and decide what kind of story you’re in.