Life and Productivity Tips

How to become super successful? You might ask this question to yourself every day. Lemme tell you some steps to be successful in life. The only thing you need is to just stick to these steps at any cost. Do you know only 1% of the whole population are successful? So what we can is to follow the steps taken by this 1%. These 1%- 1.Value Education Over Entertainment Poor people value entertainment. They spend their time watching television, playing video games, screwing around on social media, and wasting their time. Rich people don’t. They value education and constant growth. They read every single day. They attend seminars. They hire coaches. If they watch television or play video games, they do so in a strategic manner designed to help they recharge, not to distract themselves from the tasks at hand. I’ve never met someone who reads nonfiction books every day for 30–60 minutes and isn’t wealthy. (With the rare exception of individuals who read all day but never tak...

In this post, I'd try to list some ways that you can use to overcome the fear of failure. “First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” — Dale Carnegie 1. Distinguish real versus imagined fears Asking what’s the worst thing that can happen is not a magic cure. It’s a first step towards finding clarity. You need to stop worrying and focus on the root cause. Write down all the potential scenarios. Avoid exaggerating — the goals is to focus on probable situations, not to test your creativity. Categorize the answers in real and imagined fears. Discard the latter. This exercise requires practice until you build confidence. Master your fears, or you’ll become their servant. Bertrand Russell said: “Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. The proper course with every kind of fear is to think about it rationally and calmly, but with great concentration, until it has been completely familia...

The Feynman Technique is a  Mental Model  named after  Richard Feynman , a Nobel Prize Winning Physicist. It is designed as a technique to help you learn pretty much learn anything - so understand concepts you don't really get, remember stuff you have already learnt, or study more efficiently. The Feynman Technique was actually a big inspiration for this blog - I try and apply this to a lot of the concepts and Mental Models that I write about. The technique can be broken down into four easy steps, but first a quick video from  Scott Young  that sums it up very simply. Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique  So now for a recap of the steps: Step 1 Write the name of the concept at the top of a blank piece of paper. Step 2 Write down an explanation of the concept on the page. Use plain English. Pretend you are teaching it to someone else (e.g a new student). This should highlight what you understand, but more importantly ...