New Year's Resolutions: How Well Are You Living?

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"How well are you living? That's the right way to think about it," he says. The thing that comes up most often is how much your job interacts with everything else. "It's all about seeing this whole picture as a puzzle, and if I move this piece, I can adjust that piece."

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DEEP DIVE: How well are you living? [11:14]

- How do you track deep life habits? [28:07]
- How do I become more social? (Bonus: How does Cal avoid being killed by Jocko?) [34:15]
- How do I distill essential ideas from complex topics? [46:13]
- How does Cal research his articles? [53:49]
- Should I get a Deep Life tattoo? [59:41]

THREE INTERESTING THINGS:

- Guillermo Del Toro Bought a Second House to Boost his Creativity [1:13:33]
kpcc.org/show/the-frame/2016-07-22/bleak-house-a-tour-inside-guillermo-del-toros-creative-man-cave

- Kary Mullis’s Nobel-Winning Moment of Insight [1:19:56]
nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lecture/

- Charles Dickens Wrote “A Christmas Carol” on Foot [1:22:38]

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