Ep. 286: Rethinking Self Help
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Maintain a Personal Operating System
✨Key takeaways:
- Maintain and upgrade a personal operating system.
- Capture and refine big ideas from self-help resources.
- Let resonating ideas influence your operating system's rules.
Maintain a personal operating system that specifies how you live your life, including your values, commitments, actions, and things you avoid. Regularly upgrade this system. Use self-help resources as a source for upgrades. Write down the important aspects of your operating system, like what matters to you and what commitments you have. Capture and refine big ideas encountered in self-help resources within your personal operating system. As ideas resonate and stay with you, let them influence the rules of your operating system.
00:00
Transcript
Play full episode
Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts
Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
