Practice what I learn

This is the first post of the new year, so Happy New Year 2023!

I realise I read a lot of books. When I finish each one, I write a little summary of it, note the key takeaways and file it away so I can easily see what books I’ve read, when and know quickly what each was about.

Even so, I think I’ve become a hoarder of information, reading self help books for their own sake. So I’ve decided that in order to limit this, I’m making a commitment to put in practice a core idea from each book I read. That way, I’ll probably be more selective in the books I read. And each book will in a way become a part of who I am.

The idea is to move away from being a consumer of information and instead put what I learn into practice.

With that in mind, here are the current books I have read / am reading since I started this blog:

Read books

Building a second brain: finished 28 Dec 2022

I’ve already put in place the system described in this book personally and at work. It seems to be a good system, we’ll see if I stick to it over time.

The 150M secret: finished 30 Dec 2022

Before building a product, I need to build an audience. Once I have an audience, it will be so much easier to (look at influencers who have an audience, decide to launch a product and are millionaires overnight). So this is something I’ll have to come back to once I have an audience somewhere.

Books I’m currently reading

These books in some way tie into my goals. I’ll post separately about each one as I finish them and what I’m taking away from each. Part of building a second brain explains that I should pick twelve problems and whenever I run into some new information, see if it helps with any of them. This is what I’ve done with my goals, some are quite diverse but hopefully there will be some cross pollination of ideas.

The art and business of online writing

Peak

The explosive child

365 days with discipline

Meditation daily thing

365 days diy

Thinking in bets

Ruhlmans 20s

Ratio

Flavour thesaurus

Cracked it

The road less stupid

Courage is calling

Ted talks public speaking book