The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!

How to Be Idle (2005) and The Freedom Manifesto (2007).

Observations—what are you currently observing? Knowns—what do you know about the topic already? Hypotheses—what do you think will improve your performance? Tests—what are you going to try next?

Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews (2011) Yoga for Wellness by Gary Kraftsow (1999) Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy by Gregor Maehle (2007) Breath-Centered Yoga with Leslie Kaminoff (DVD) by Leslie Kaminoff (2010)

Sinatra is generally better suited for small projects.

“The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”

the process of skill acquisition is not really about the raw hours you put in . . . it’s what you put into those hours.

developing the capacity to perform well enough for your own purposes usually requires far less of an investment.

Yoga was a systematic assault on the ego, an exacting regimen that over a long period of time taught the aspirant to abolish his normal consciousness with its errors and delusions, and replace it with the ecstatic discovery of his purusha.

in early-stage practice, quantity and speed trump absolute quality.