The Best Way To Get Fitness Results? Write It Down.
Most people don't bother tracking their workouts or diet very closely, and just do their best at any given time. However, tracking doesn't just record what we do - it gives us real data on how to act in the future, and has a tendency to improve our results across the board.
"Just Read" Is Bad Advice
We're often told to "just read" as a way to get smarter, and popular media depictions show smart people reading books to get smarter. I think the reverse is true: that smart people read books to express their innate intelligence.
No One Really Knows What They're Doing
Cognitive biases work together to make us very bad at objectively analyzing our own level of ability, competence, or intelligence. As a result, we need to be very careful when making judgments about our own ability. But on the other end of things: no one really knows what they're doing. They just know enough to be confident.
The Real Reason My Business Succeeded
There's no single reason why business projects, creative projects, or self-improvement projects succeed or fail. But at the same time, there is actually one absolute prerequisite that most people miss.
Who's At Fault?
In complex human organizational systems, sometimes responsibility and fault can be hard attributes to assign. We need to own up to the fact that we can sometimes be complicit in crimes that we don't want to admit responsibility for.