A collection of mental models, strategies, and tactics that have helped me lead a better life.
A Playbook for Learning
- ???? Cluster Reading: How to Become an Expert
- ???? The Super Mario Effect: How to trick yourself into learning more
- ???? The Question-Book Method
- ???? Free Recall: How to Remember What You Read
- ???? Deliberate Practice vs. Distributed Practice
A Playbook for Purpose, Productivity, and Motivation
- The 80/20 Principle Template: How to Evaluate Your Time
- The One-Sentence-A-Day Journal
- The Morning Preview
- The Daily Review (2018)
- A Hierarchy of Goals
A Playbook for Spirituality
- ???? The Little Way: The Easiest Way to Become a Saint
- ???? The Anger Baby: How to Calm Down When You Are Upset
- ???? A Highway Meditation: A metaphor to help you mediate and monitor your thoughts and emotions
- ???? The Friday Feed Fast: How to strengthen your resistance to the temptation of modern media
A Playbook for Parenting
A Playbook for Writers
- The Character Question: What do they want and why?
- The Ten Person Test: How to Get Feedback on Your Book
- Maker’s Schedule, Marketer’s Schedule, and Manager’s Schedule: How to Organize Your Day as a Writer
- Stephen King’s “No Adverbs Rule”
- Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules for Writing
- Book Elevator Pitch Template: How to Explain What Your Book is About
- The One Sentence, One Paragraph, One Page Exercise: What is your book about?
- The Rule of 30,000: How to Evaluate the Market for a Book Idea
- ✍️ Have Done vs. Want To Do Projects: How to decide what to work on as an author
A Marketing Playbook
- The Grunt Test: How to Make Your Website Better
- Prime Time Email Newsletters: How to Start a Weekly Email
- The “Link Roundup” Email Newsletter: A Simple Way to Send More Emails
- Gary Vaynerchuk’s $1.80 Strategy to Get More Instagram Followers
- The Follow, Like, Like, Like Strategy: How to Get More Instagram Followers
A Playbook for Personal Finance
- The $100 Habit: How to Save More Money
- The Declutter Question: If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?