What is a theory?

Does life follow a theory?

Do theories explain what is happening?

How are theories derived?

Trial and error are the best teachers.

Trial and error drive innovation.

Theories try to explain what trial and error discover.

Don't get stuck on theories.

Go and do, experience and learn.

How many different projects do you have?

Do you alternate between them?

How enjoyable are they?

How exhausting are they?

Do you alternate between them?

Variety is important.

Mix up your projects.

Alternate between enjoyable and exhausting.

There is only so much you can push through.

Do you spend time alone?

Do you enjoy time alone?

What do you do when you are alone?

How do you feel when you are alone?

How do you feel after a period of solitude?

We spend so much time around people.

If not physically then digitally.

Regular solitude is crucial to resetting.

Do you have mood swings?

Are you in a bad mood and don't know why?

Good news leave you cold?

Or can you be in a good mood for no reason?

When bad news hits you brush them off?

Do you beat yourself up over these swings?

It is normal to have these swings, they are part of life.

Plan your days accordingly.

Have compassion with yourself.

Have compassion for others and their swings.

What is your BATNA?

Do you know it when you negotiate?

Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.

Do you have the information you need?

Never go into a negotiation without knowing it.

Your BATNA gives you the minimum for a potential agreement.

With it, you know when to walk away.

Are you more proactive or passive?

Which do you prefer?

Which do you think is better?

Sometimes it is better to be proactive.

Sometimes it is better to be passive.

Proactivity can send you down a rabbit hole.

Passivity can leave you behind or in a put position.

When is which of the two the right option?

How do you go about carrying it out?

Where is the opportunity in this crisis?

Do you focus on the risks, damage, or losses?

Or do you focus on where an opportunity could lie?

Never waste a good crisis.

There is always an opportunity in them.

Some may have immediate effects.

Some may have delayed effects.

Try to identify them and make use of them.

However, not every opportunity is worth taking.

Did you ever rush something?

Why?

Because it seemed urgent?

Because it seemed important?

Rushing produces more problems than solutions.

If you believe you need to act now,

you have at least a few minutes.

If you believe you have only an hour,

you have at least another day.

Decide things mindfully, do not rush.

Do you practice poverty?

What would it be like to live poor?

Have you tried imagining?

Have you tried living like it?

Live a poor life as a form of retreat.

Do it with the intent to learn and prepare.

Money can be taken from you.

Your attitude is all yours.

Do you have expactations of others?

Do you have expectations of yourself?

Are these alike?

Should expectations be universal?

Or dependant on the person?

Expecting the same form everyone is a trap.

No one is alike - people differ.

Set your expectations depending on the person.

Universal expectations breed resentment.

What is the most difficult task you had to do?

What is the most difficult task you might have to do?

Would you have said the same ten years ago?

We underestimate and overestimate tasks all the time.

We are surprised that the most difficult is not on our radar.

We are surprised how something is easy, we thought of as impossible.

Whatever comes your way, give it your best shot.

Do you regret your bad decisions?

How do you evaluate them?

How do you know another path was better?

From which point in time are you evaluating?

What was the experience worth?

How has it changed your life's trajectory?

What would be missing without it?

We tend to beat ourselves up because of past decisions.

We overthink and overcriticise ourselves.

We do not consciously sabotage ourselves.

We make decisions as best as we can at the time.

After all, only at your life's end can you truly evaluate it.

Which opportunities do you take advantage of?

How do you evaluate upside vs downside?

Do you even evaluate them?

Ideally, we want to engage in asymmetric opportunities.

Opportunities with a high upside and a low downside.

Many of us, however, go for the opposite.

How can you create more asymmetry for you?

You only live once...

What does this mean for you?

Fear of missing out...

How does this affect you?

Can you yolo responsibly?

Yolo without responsibility is based on FOMO.

FOMO is seldom a good reason for a decision.

Do you try to predict events?

Or predict how people will behave?

How is that going for you?

How much time and energy does this take?

We are very bad at predictions.

Also if you make a prediction you feel safer taking high risks.

Focus on the basics instead.

Be flexible and prepared for sudden changes.

Is your character constant?

Do you behave the same in every setting?

Are you the same with family as with work friends?

Do your values change depending on the situation?

We behave differently in different settings.

We behave depending on our mood.

We decide depending on many factors.

If you think your character is constant, you life in an illusion.

Is life fair to you?

Is society fair to you?

Is your family fair to you?

Who decides what is fair?

Does fair exist?

Fairness is highly subjective.

For every person in a room, you have another definition.

Don't chase it.

Make the best of what life hands to you.

Is there something that is taking most of your attention?

What are you neglecting due to this?

What are the consequences of this?

Now, how important is the attention robber?

Often, one thing takes nearly all our attention.

The things we neglect may be more important or equally so.

Make sure to keep your attention in balance.

Or it might be too late for what you neglect.

If you were to die tomorrow:

How do feel about that?

How do you feel about what you leave behind?

Are there any loose ends?

The same applies to anyone around you.

If they were to die tomorrow, what then?

Once they are dead, once you are dead, it is over.

Keep that in mind and act accordingly.

Are you prone to cockiness?

Not just towards others, but yourself?

Especially when things are going great?

You might be on a roll?

Cockiness comes before the fall.

When you notice it, be ready for the crash.

You will hit a challenge too great at one point.

You will run out of steam at one point.

When you get cocky, it is time to take a step back.