January Favourites 2024
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- January Favourites 2024
- 🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
- 📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
- 📚 My Favourite Reads of the Month
- 🖥 My Favourite Websites of the Month
- 🛠️ My Favourite Tools of the Month
- ✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
- 💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
- 💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
- 💡 My Favourite Research of the Month
- 🧨 My Favourite Sparks of Motivation & Inspiration
- 🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
- 🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
- 💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
- 🎙️ My Favourite Podcasts of the Month
- 🎥 My Favourite YouTubers & Playlists of the Month
- 🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
- 🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
- 🥗 My Favourite Recipes of the Month
- 🎸 My Favourite Music of the Month
🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
Last Night in Soho
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📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
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📚 My Favourite Reads of the Month
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🖥 My Favourite Websites of the Month
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🛠️ My Favourite Tools of the Month
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✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
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💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
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New habit: read until you feel a spark, not until you achieve inbox 0
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In addition to the meeting time of my schedule events, I want to add to my calendar the time I’m suppose to leave
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What if we found role models for our different life blocks; admiration vs aspiration
💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
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“This is the love of my life and the life of my love.” — Joe Biden referencing his wife and daughter
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“I can’t even tell if we’re connecting or if I’m creating a bad memory for you.” — May December
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“What is hate worth if it’s free” — Elvis
Linguistic fossilization & archeology (a term I made up)
Spiders used to be called cobs, which has been preserved in the word cobweb; is linguistic archeology or linguistic fossilization a thing
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“Over the years, as I’ve gradually grown dumber relative to my peers through a combination of aging and making smarter friends” 🔗 / Substack
- I think the idea of “growing dumber” as an aspiration is an interesting concept. Aspirational in this case because the author has found people that pull her up.
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Word of the day - Agentic: Behaves like an agent; able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
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Forgetting paradox: We forget how much we forget because by definition – we’ve forgotten it.
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The Growth Paradox 🔗 / Sahil Bloom’s Newsletter /
Growth takes a much longer time coming than you think, but then happens much faster than you ever thought possible.
Growth happens gradually, then suddenly.
The best things in life come from allowing compounding to work its magic.
Slowly, then all at once.
💡 My Favourite Research of the Month
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Turning nouns into verbs is more persuasive. Don’t ask people to vote, ask them to become voters.
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Explore the different types of lighting and how they might influence people 🔗 / Start here /
🧨 My Favourite Sparks of Motivation & Inspiration
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What if you were guaranteed to accomplish every vision you defined in dead in a decade — what if you lived knowing that there was a 100% chance they would happen and all you had to do was take valid action toward them
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“Love is a choice. So when you do fall in love with someone, you’re choosing that person and that love every single day. And it’s not always a feeling.” 🔗 / podcast /
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“How can I live my life in a way that brings meaning to whatever I do?” 🔗 / Nathaniel Drew /
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I used to be so driven by personal projects; I wonder what impact it’s having on me now that I haven’t been working on anything for a while
🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
- Impasto Art: An Italian word for “mixture,” used to describe a painting technique wherein paint is thickly laid on a surface, so that brushstrokes or palette knife marks are visible. A pastose surface is one that is thickly painted.
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🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
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- 30 minutes for 30 days equates to 900 cumulative minutes
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🔗 / Sahil Bloom’s Newsletter /
Life is hard, but fortunately, you get to choose your hard.It's hard to build deep, meaningful relationships. It's also hard to live on the surface with everyone. It's hard to build the body you want. It's also hard to see your body atrophy from lack of use. It's hard to build a life of purpose. It's also hard to live without one. Choose your hard.
Most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year.Your entire life can change in one year. Not ten, not five, not three. One. One year of focused daily effort. Start today.
When something isn't working, fight the urge to add and ask what you can subtract instead.
Every single person you see is fighting a battle you'll never know anything about.
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What percentage of our lives do we actually remember
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If you could wake up tomorrow with three new skills in which you excelled, what would they be and why?
💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
What’s the worst thing I will have done
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Trending question: What seems obvious to you, but not to others?
Alternative question: What seems obvious to others, but not obvious to you?
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The places we don’t feel like we belong
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What would the titles of 3 of your future self’s ted talks be?
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What if everyone made it a life mission to figure what types of things motivate them — motivation languages: serving others, fun, curiosity, competition, aesthetics, recognition…
🎙️ My Favourite Podcasts of the Month
🎥 My Favourite YouTubers & Playlists of the Month
🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
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Cookbooks should all come with the stat: how many ingredients are used in this cookbook; then they should optimize for reducing that number
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What if every time you were in a new place you made it a personal game to identify which of your senses are the most activated and by what.
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What if you looked at every inconvenience and problem throughout your day through the lens of a social media star happy to have any good story to tell
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What if you personified Distance in the same way you personify Time
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Environment simulators commercialized: earthquake, rainfall, fire…