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The Playbook: A Collection of Mental Models, Strategies, and Tactics

Jared Dees Playbook

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 

  • The HALT Strategy: How to Respond to Temper Tantrums

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?

A Playbook for Leadership 

  • 5-Second Feedback: A Simple Strategy for Managers

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Jared Dees is passionate about sharing practical resources to teach faith. He is best known for his website The Religion Teacher and is the author of many books including 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach, Praying the Angelus, Christ in the Classroom, and Beatitales: 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children. See all of Jared's Books →

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