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Personal Growth, Be Accountable - Coggle Diagram

- - - - refering to elementary school kids as "scholars"
    - - VS the rational man - making decisions based on max utility
      - who am I? What kind of situation is this? What would a person like me do in a situation like this?
  - - - eg not I’m a soldier, but I’m the type of person who
        is disciplined, reliable, and great on a team
  - - - the more confident we are in something the better we can become - - What would it look like if I were confident at this task?
- - - - need to connect with actions
        
        Focus on the next specific action (Switch)
        
        eg not I need to get a tune up for a car, rather - I need to call the shop to
        
        TOOL - Action Trigger
        
        I’ll write a the essay on Xmas morning before everyone gets up - pre-decide - only works if you want to do it (Switch)
      - Advice
        
        the middle will change - have a strong beginning and ending (Switch)
        
        Set longer range goals - setbacks become “pebbles on the beach” even big setback (Zig Ziglar)
      - Will it take me closer to or further from my major objective in life?
      - What's in it for me?
    - - behavioral goal (changing behavior)
        
        Switch argues more effective
        
        goals should be about becoming a type of person not getting an outcome (Atomic Habits)
        
        goals should be about becoming a type of person not getting an outcome (Atomic Habits)
      - Outcome / performance goals
      - Process vs Outcome
        
        TOOL
        Mager's Goal analysis
- - - - the bigger the change, the more the effort
      - but you think more critically!
  - - - MOTIVATION
        
        ways to fool System 1
        
        anchoring effect
        
        framing
        
        AUTONOMY
        
        feeling of no autonomy takes more willpower
        
        VALUES - and "Why?" - - eg energy and confidence instead of just losing 5 pounds > give a why to your goal
        
        Progressing to a clear “important” goal is motivating
        
        Focus
        
        3 types of focus - spotlight, starlight, daylight
        
        Add meaning, meaning, meaning! to the work (Progress principle)
        
        drive - autonomy - mastery - purpose
      - Optimism
        
        cruel optimism
      - Mood
        
        postive
        
        creative - but less critical
        
        negative
        
        more critical - less susceptible to bias
      - whenever you feel stress - there is a conflict in your values - Brian Tracy
        
        Integrity - not a value in itself - but measured by how much you live by your values
    - - ENVIRONMENT
        
        habit forming is not just about strengthening your internal self but about ⭐️ designing your external environment to facilitate (or discourage)habits (Atomic Habits9
        
        Visual Cues
        
        “Commitment device” eg use smaller plates
    - - habit loop
        
        cue
        
        Most power cues
        
        time
        
        location
        
        Use designated spaces for setting behavioral habits
        
        TOOL - “Implementation intention” (Atomic Habit)
        
        Routine
        
        Quantity vs Quality - the photography students who focused on quantity all ended up with better photos than the students who focused on quality - experiment learn and experiment again AH
        
        Rewad
        
        examples
        
        toothpaste has a tingling feeling at the end for this reason / foaming for toothpaste and shampoo
      - storing patterns = chunking
      - setting habits
        
        requires willpower/ grit
        
        willpower erodes / it's a muscle so can be strengthened
        
        Make something strange/exotic familiar
      - compounding effect (positive/negative) of small changes (Atomic Habits)
        
        "habit stacking! Atomic Habits
        
        "gateway habit" - eg put on running shoes AH
        
        standardize before optimize
      - breaking through plateau
        
        Your work was not wasted; it is just
        being stored (Atomic Habits)
        
        we advanced in steps - not straight line
      - Starting something
        
        “First you get it down, the you get it good” (write then revise) Mager >> so many agree with this sentiment
- - - - Vicarious mastery
      - protoege effect
      - “Helper’s high”
    - - We tend to imitate the habits of three social groups: the close (family and friends), the many (the tribe), and the powerful (those
        with status and prestige) AH.