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Ep. 286: Rethinking Self Help

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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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.

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