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Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that I should identify the lessons I didn’t want to learn from life, and simply choose not to learn them. My intent was not necessarily to evaluate whether a certain lesson was true or false in a given context, rather that there are certain lessons that are true in some scenarios, but learning them forms a limiting belief. Limiting belief, founded on a circumstantially true lesson, can change the slope of your future in unpleasant ways.
Lessons Not Worth Learning.
lethain.com
I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These have more of a journaling flavor to them, since one of the goals is to help me discover patterns, but the template is still pretty basic: a header for highlights, one for lowlights, and one for things I want to change in the next week.
Digital Gardening in Obsidian
bytes.zone
Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as opposed to abstractly, about things that seem nearer to us in space, time, sociality, chance, and plan. Such concrete thinking can reveal itself, for example, in our using more concrete words as descriptors.
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