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Summary

John Maynard Keynes:

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  • Need to escape from Cognitive Scripts
  • conduct audit of your life and reevaluate your goals

HOW-TO

  • Whenever something crosses your mind:
    • Take a snapshot
    • Write a few words
  • Don’t capture everything: use curiosity as compass
  • What to include:
    • Ideas
    • Moods
    • Encounters
    • Energy
  • do it in real-time, don’t wait for the end of the day, as you’d do when journaling.
  • Analyze then patterns, which will help you understand what the next experiment should be about

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