The post basically makes a comparison to what we want to do in life and the mathematical optimization technique called Hill Climbing used in iterative algorithms. If we view our careers as hills, and there are many hills out there that we could possibly climb, then it makes sense to say that we would want to climb the highest hill we can.

The 5 Second Rule is a simple idea that gets moving. The basic idea is “If you have an instinct to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds, or your brain will kill it.”

I decided to take the Four Tendencies Quiz to see how informative it was and whether it helped me gauge how I react to expectations and what changes I can make to better suit my tendency.

I needed a bit of a push to get these distractions under control, and that’s where Nir Eyal’s book Indistractable comes to the rescue. It’s simply written, well-structured and flows from one section to the next. It even has actionable steps after each chapter to get you to actually put what Eyal suggests into action.

Before Emerson passed away in 1882 he wrote essays titled "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", "Experience", and "Nature". It’s amazing to look back at his essays and compare our world now to a 19th-century one.

Greg Mckeown wrote Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less to help us declutter our lives and focus on what’s important. It’s about figuring out what really is important to us and helps us understand that we do a lot of things to keep up appearances. Time is finite and only good things can come from focusing on what we really need to do rather than feel obliged to do.

The basic idea of Stoicism is that our emotions arise from false judgements and we can actually control the way we react to things.

Forming habits is tricky and James Clear’s Atomic Habits helped me do just that.