[Frameworks] 51 frameworks for your life
Some of the most important frameworks/models/principles I learned in the last few years which have helped me in my personal life
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The worst case scenario: If everything goes wrong, whats your personal worst case scenario, and is it really that bad?
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Write down everything: Organize your thoughts. Develop your philosophy. Get ready to contribute from Day 1.
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Avoid zero days: A zero day is when you don’t do a single fucking thing towards whatever dream or goal or want or whatever that you got going on. No more zeros.
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It Can All Go To Zero: Perspective can be a useful thing.
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Hell Yeah: No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.”
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Proximity is power: Remember it, apply it. It will change your life.
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Time Travel: Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do.
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FUCK YES, or no.: Only pursue romantic endeavors in which everything seems to flow naturally.
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Time is the most expensive commodity in the world: At the end of your life, when you’ve wasted lots of time, try finding someone who will trade you time for your money. It isn’t happening.
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There’s no speed limit: If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects.
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Pomodoro: How to Work 40 Hours in 16.7.
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36 questions: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love.
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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held: To deal with an uncertain future and still move forward.
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Life is short: How you live affects how long you live. Most people could do better.
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Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel: You doesn’t live in the picture’s broad strokes, you live at all times in a single pixel of the image—a single Today.
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The Work Required to Have an Opinion: The work required to hold an opinion means that you can argue yourself better than others can.
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Keep your identity small: There is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
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Your Whole Life Is Borrowed Time: Your life is essentially a bonus round, consisting entirely of borrowed time from the beginning.
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Zig zag vs Straight line;Stop making big decisions and focus on closing the gap with where you want to be.
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Say No So You Can Say Yes; say No to all those things we said Yes to over time, that have accumulated and piled up like driftwood.
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10/10/10; pick up/ do things which will make you happy in 10 mins, 10 months and 10 years.
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Values and N.U.T.s;define your core values and find your N.U.T.S.
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Plan your year through OKRs; set them in the beginning of the year and share them with people.
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Get off the wrong bus; if you really want to get where you set out to go, you’re going to have to get off the wrong bus.
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Identify Leaders By Giving People Assignments; simple, yet elegant way to triage an overwhelming amount of inbound requests to figure out who is really going to make shit happen.
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Think in bets; you can’t tell the quality of a decision from the outcome.
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Horizontal relationships vs Vertical ones; vertical relationships are hierarchical, where you see others as being either inferior or superior to you while horizontal ones are egalitarian, you see others as your equals.
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All problems are interpersonal relationship problems; we are all suffering in interpersonal relationships.
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Share stories, not advice; try to share stories instead of giving advice, especially in circumstances where I’m missing most of the context.
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Boring life; chose to be actively boring.
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Regret minimization framework; what will you regret doing/not doing when you are 80?
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80/20; lead a pareto life.
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Money dial; what if you had a money dial?
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If you don’t do something well, don’t do it. Unless you wanna spend the time to improve that; commit to things you want to spend time improving on.
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Done is better than perfect; a life full of MVPs, followed by iterations.
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Take your 10-year life plan and ask, Why can’t I do this in six months?; the Peter Thiel question.
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Treat it like a spa; Terry Crews’s gym philosophy you can use for anything in life.
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Sacca’s Cabin in Truckee; have a hangout spot people want to go to.
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Get fuck you money; a wise man’s life is based around fuck you money.
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20 min optimism rule; fight natural tendency for smart people to be skeptical and shoot down ideas prematurely.
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Build a life/career which can’t be cancelled; “When you have something that can’t get canceled, you can be free,” - Joe Rogan.
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Improve your maximum taste; the theory of maximum taste says that each person’s mind is defined by its upper limit—the best that it habitually consumes and is capable of consuming.
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Focus on the work, not the person; all that matters is what you do with the ideas, no matter the source. Apply them to your own life in your own way.
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Think in metaphors; learn to see past the example, focus on the lesson, and apply it to your own life.
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Never do anything in life that is motivated by a feeling of inadequacy; if you do, it will ultimately backfire and make you feel even more inadequate.
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Avoid the perpetually aggrieved; There are two red flags to avoid almost all dangerous people: 1. The perpetually aggrieved ; 2. The angry.
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Time billionaire > Money billionaire; 20-year-olds have two billion seconds left.
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The Universe Is Basically Playful; it is a musical thing, and we are supposed to sing or to dance while the music is being played.
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Do what you are doing; don’t get distracted from the act of cleaning by thinking about revisions in the tax code.
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Think for yourself; make yourself more independent-minded.
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Create then edit; separate the processes of creation from improving.
Note: I will keep expanding this list