Ep. 310: Rethinking Discipline
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Improve Cognitive Map for Goal Achievement
✨Key takeaways:
- Understand how your goal works.
- Learn about your goal.
- Store positive examples of success related to your goal in your hippocampus.
To achieve your goals more effectively, improve your understanding of how things work by learning how people achieve similar goals. Example: If you want to learn a new language, understand the process of language acquisition, or if you want to become an artist, explore what steps artists take to reach certain skill levels. This involves researching, reading forums, books, watching videos, and going deep on relevant discussions to build a detailed cognitive map. After, store many positive examples of this thing working.
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