1.1.1 - Organizing your thoughts, on ending world suffering, and making hard choices
Issue #10, 11th October 2022
🎨 Visual
If I had a dollar for every time I forgot an idea, I would be Tony Stark.
I tried, alright? I tried having a Notion page and made fancy edits to make it visually aesthetic. Looking back, I have spent more time setting up platforms to store my ideas (Notion, Apple Notes, Obsidian, Joplin) than actually storing these ideas!
I wish I had the strength of the productivity gurus and not be chronically disorganized. However, with my past experience, I identified that I take better and more notes using offline mediums (a random A4 sheet or even one of multiple half-used notebooks lying around my desk).
Hopefully, I get a bunch of sticky notes to write these random thoughts and later organize them in a notebook . Or even, stack the sticky notes together, and call it a day; better than letting my ideas sink into the void 😅
I’ll update you on how it goes!
How do you store you ideas? Give me some inspiration in the comments 🙏
📚 Quote
American science fiction author Octavia Butler on ending the suffering in the world.
“There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers...You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
Source: Common Good Collective
🔗 Link
Here’s a tool that I stumbled upon while researching about mental models. You might already know why Mark Zuckerberg wears gray T-shirts everyday (and other successful CEOs following a similar approach). If not, here’s a refresh;
In his first Q&A, Zuckerberg revealed,
“I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community…..I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life, so that way I can dedicate all of my energy towards just building the best products and services”
Whether you agree on his minimalistic fashion sense or not, there’s a deeper meaning behind his choices. It all boils down to decision making. Some sources suggest that the average person makes around 35,000 choices per day. Yes, 35,000! 🤯
This “Hard Choice” model can help you figure out what kind of a decision you're making, so that you can make better decisions and focus on what’s important. Do give it a try!
Have a good week, and remember to take it easy! 🤍
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