Ask HN: Does learning self-improvement techniques help? | Hacker News
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The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where y
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This is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
Self-improvement is the ultimate form of investing in oneself. It requires devoting time, money, attention, and hard effort now for a payoff later, sometimes in the far distant future. A lot of people are unwilling to make this trade-off because they crave instant gratification and desire instant results. These short-term costs, when applied the ri... See more
Guatam Baid • Joys Of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
Again, the trick to getting good at pressure mapping is learning to let go of your natural assumptions, to see the irrational and the counterrational as opportunities.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time nav... See more
Byrne Hobart • Building for Power Users
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