#2:Try more stuff, self-sabotage, and lessons from 2020's reading
Here's what I've written in the last month
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Try more stuff: the benefits of 30-day self-experiments
You can’t fail at an experiment. The whole purpose is to collect information about yourself. Failed experiments can end up being the most informative and approaching them with curiosity makes everything a bit more enjoyable.
All in all, I believe that pretty much anyone can benefit from carrying out at least one self-experiment per month. More can work, but it seems beneficial to limit yourself to one at a time per area of life to be more sure of the effects and avoid chasing too many shiny objects. (Keep reading) (Read on Medium)
38 ideas for 30-day self-experiments
As part two of the last post, here’s a list of around forty ideas for one-month experiments, along with a brief summary of why they might be interesting.
Some I’ve tried myself in the past. I’ve excluded a few past experiments that weren’t all that smart or safe (such as the time I spent a month alone in a barn in the countryside. It sounds cool but it wasn’t awesome for my mental health.) Some are experiments I plan to do this year or at whatever point in the future they provide practical. Some are highly speculative and are on my ‘whenever, maybe never’ list. Some are ideas from other people I just think are cool and enjoyed reading about. (Keep reading) (Read on Medium)
Why you can’t stop self-sabotaging
(Rerun from 2018.) Getting what we feel we don’t deserve is excruciating.
We panic and self-sabotage to assuage the accompanying guilt. Chasing what we want is an empty exercise if we won’t be able to live with ourselves if we get it.
When we find ourselves self-sabotaging again and again, when we look backwards and spot the burnt-out matches scattered around the things that didn’t work out, we have two choices. (Keep reading) (Read on Medium)
Everything I read in October, November, December, and January
I’m months overdue a book review post because my reviews have been getting too long and therefore intimidating to start writing. So I’ll keep to a few lines on each book, or it will be time to write about another month by the time I finish this one. (Keep reading) (Read on Medium)
52 lessons from 100 books read in 2020
Back in December, I spent a couple of days rereading my book notes from throughout the year and summarising some of the lessons I drew from them. Here are 52 of my favourite lessons from the books I read in 2020. (Keep reading) (Read on Medium)
Other stuff
Here are some extracts from Ask Me Anything sessions with interesting people I’ve hosted at work in recent months: Gretchen Rubin, Laura Vanderkam, Marc Tarpenning, Tarek Malouf, Stefanie Johnson, Susan David.
A picture of my prom dress, a ridiculous 1970s dance costume
Sneak peek of volume 3 in The Great Mental Models series - something I’ve been working on for the last two years and can’t wait to finally hold in my hands
See you next month.
All the best,
Rosie
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