Weekly Review

Self help has been my most read genre. A lot of the advice overlaps but sometimes you just need to hear it from many perspectives before it sticks.

Notes from the episode:

technique for dissecting a problem: what, so what, now what
- found this helpful to chain into a therapy session with carl rogers as described below
therapy sessions by recording your current problem and feeding it into chatgpt and prompting it to respond as carl rogers would, using empathetic listening
- promt that was successful for me: analyze the following session transcript and respond as carl rogers would ...
essence of essentialism: explore (what is essential), eliminate (what is not essential), execute (make it effortless to do what is essential)
quarterly offsite: what are essential things i’m under investing in, what are non essential things i’m over investing in, how do i bridge this?
planning for the day: 1 essential task,2 minotr tasks, 3 maintenance tasks
what is essential to Tim: mastering something or making something
- relate to this and would also add - deepening relationship with someone
its "easy" to look back at tough event and later realize that you're grateful for it because of what it taught you - its much harder to do this about a current tough event - a training technique is to say "I'm grateful for {current hardship} because..." and let your mind linger on the question
- this is similar to poet David Whyte's approach of beautiful questions - the mind will work to fill in the gaps
reframe current events as "its happening ~~to~~ for me"
- like the aforementioned gratefulness exercise, this forces your mind to fill in the difference

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