A commitment device is a choice you make today that restricts your future options in order to enforce follow-through. The mechanism exploits loss aversion: by making failure...
The core idea
A commitment device is a choice you make today that restricts your future options in order to enforce follow-through. The mechanism exploits loss aversion: by making failure...
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Choosing Important Problems
most important decision in any career or research agenda is which problems to wo
Deep Work
concentration on demanding tasks produces disproportionate value.
Deliberate Practice
practice targeting specific weaknesses drives elite performance.
Flow State
consciousness where challenge and skill match produces peak performance.
Spaced Repetition
at expanding intervals to beat the forgetting curve.
10,000 Hour Rule
takes time. Malcolm Gladwell popularised the idea in Outliers: roughly 10,000 ho