1/ Video games are good for us. Everyone at @Shopify is allowed to expense Factorio (store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Fac…). Played a lot of real-time strategy eg Starcraft when younger.
2/ RTS games are cool because it's all about managing resources. Gold, minerals etc, but most importantly attention. At higher levels of play, it's the player who can pay attention to the relevant things amidst all the chaos who'll win.
3/ Personality typing is interesting. Not because it's an instruction manual "this is how to deal with personality X", but because it gives us an appreciation that "whoah people are so different!". This is a non-obvious insight that it can take decades to fully internalise.
4/ Ground States - What do you do when you're not doing anything? What's your zero-energy-expenditure activity? For some of us, it's watching TV. For Tobi it's ingesting information. 👈 I want to explore this idea more.
5/ Follow your interests - Tobi loves "The Guide to the Good Life" (sick book). But everyone has to follow their own path with reading / interests. Don't just read the stuff that someone is telling you, read the stuff you find the most interesting, then pull on that thread.
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Fear of failure can hold us all back, but I’ve found a simple mindset shift that helps me take the plunge without being paralysed by fear: I treat everything as an experiment. 🧵👇
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An experiment isn’t about succeeding or failing. It’s about testing a hypothesis, learning, and collecting data. So, whenever I feel jitters about a new project, I reframe it as an experiment to take the pressure off.
Here’s how it works:
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1️⃣ Start with a goal
What’s something you want to achieve?
For example, let’s say you’re aiming to start a YouTube channel.
I used to make the mistake of thinking that I could fit everything into my life.
Work, hobbies, fitness, friends, family, a side-hustle, chores AND time to rest and recover.
But the truth is that we DON’T have time for everything. And that’s okay 👇
There’s a pretty common metaphor used to describe how you should prioritise your life, and it goes like this.
Imagine your life is an empty glass. The things you consider to be the foundations of your life - your family, your job - are big stones that you put into the glass.
All the other aspects of your life—friends, fitness, a side hustle—are the small stones. They fit in between the gaps of the big rocks.
In theory, this means you put the most time and effort into those big foundation rocks, and anything left over can find room at the edges.
We all want to get the best night's sleep possible.
Here's a mega thread of top tips to improve your sleep routine 🧵
1) It starts in the morning 🌞
Exposure to light in the morning sets our body clocks properly. Taking a walk first thing will give your body the light it needs to tell the time and start your day right.
2) Take 20 minute naps 😴
The occasional afternoon nap can be really beneficial. As long as you don’t sleep for more than 20 minutes, you'll wake up more alert and with more energy for the rest of your day. Try it next time you're procrastinating 😜