What's the difference between a polymath and a generalist?

A polymath is a person who has expertise and deep knowledge in multiple fields, while a generalist has a broad range of knowledge in multiple fields but not necessarily deep expertise. 👇 Polymaths are admired for their exceptional intellectual breadth and ability to make connections between seemingly disparate fields, while generalists are admired for their versatility, agility and adaptability.

Use these 16 Proven Strategies to Take Control of Your Thoughts, Emotions,
and Actions! [4-minute read]

The Keys to Self-Regulation:

1. Focus
2. Patience
3. Flexibility
4. Resilience
5. Motivation
6. Persistence
7. Self-control
8. Adaptability
9. Self-esteem
👇 10. Impulse control
11. Mental toughness
12. Deferred judgment
13. Stress management
14. Delayed gratification
15. Frustration Tolerance
16. Emotional Management

Self-Regulation is the process of controlling your thoughts, emotions,
and behaviors.

Use these 16 Proven Strategies to Take Control of Your Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions!

[4-minute read]

The Keys to Self-Regulation:

1. Focus
2. Patience
3. Flexibility
4. Resilience
5. Motivation
6. Persistence
7. Self-control
8. Adaptability
9. Self-esteem
10. Impulse… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Would you like to see more guides like this?

On what subjects?

Guide to _______

This is going to be controversial, but it has to be said:

Biden is normalizing the expectation that 80-year-olds lack mental acuity. with his bumbling denials of multiple crises.

I'm three months older than him, and as sharp as I've ever been: 👇 My memory is not as good, but my judgment has never been better.
Inductive and deductive reasoning better than ever.
Most creative period of my life.

I know dozens of people over 80 who have remained mentally active (mostly psychologists) who are as sharp as they've ever been.

Our minds evolved to see patterns, seek immediate gratification, and jump to conclusions.

We must train our minds to delay gratification and suspend judgment in this modern world as we gather information, process contradictory data, and consider long-range consequences. The well-trained mind: develops:

Focus
Patience
Flexibility
Resilience
Motivation
Persistence
Self-control
Adaptability
Self-esteem
Impulse control
Mental toughness
Deferred judgment
Stress management
Delayed gratification
Frustration Tolerance
Emotional Management

A good critical thinker will always ask the question: "If I am wrong, how will I know?" A good critical thinker is not embarrassed to be wrong.

Improve your thinking — even if you are a genius
VERY IMPORTANT THREAD + TEMPLATE

1. Think of thinking as a conversation with yourself, a dialogue or a group meeting of your parts:

What kind of conversation is this? 👇

<<<THREAD>>> 1a. An exploration, creative stream-of-consciousness, investigation, attempt to explain a puzzling situation?

A fantasy, a reminiscence or re-living af a past event.
A celebration of an achievement.
A performance review.
An attempt to understand an emotion

As you plan for the new year, don't forget to fit in:

How will you begin to incorporate AI into your plans?
Twitter 2.0?
The coming financial crisis?
What skill should you learn next?
What's that thing you know you need to start?
What trap are you going to escape? What process do you need to be in to be in the process you want to be in?
How are you going to create value for the world?
What's the unique combo of your skills and interests that people are dying to pay for, that you'd love to do?
What are you going to do in your spare time?

PREDICTIONS:

By this time next year,
• Twitter will be radically different than it is now, with more innovation in the year than it's entire history.
• @elonmusk will prove the immense power of free speech.
• Spaces will be a significant factor in providing that free speech • Long-form platforms like Medium will get a run for their money from Twitter.
• YouTube, with its intense censorship, will get a run for its money.
• The Community Notes program will refine into a major source of community fact checking.

"One is reminded of Till Eulenspiegel, who, trudging through the rolling countryside of the Ardennes, cried while walking downhill but laughed while climbing the steep crests. 👇 "When asked the reason for this strange behavior, he explained that while going downhill he was thinking of the rise awaiting him on the other side of the valley, but during the climbs he was already anticipating the pleasure of the easy descent.

I'm 80 years old.

I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to live the best life. I’d like to share a few things that have made my life successful and happy.

While I hope to live another 15 years or so, I’m acutely aware that I could leave the planet tomorrow. 🧵👇 I feel better about it knowing that I’m leaving my findings in The MindSkills Playbook, which I’m writing in public as a live, hybrid written/audiobook. bit.ly/3Jf6ohi.

My purpose now is to pass on the wisdom others gave me and that I discovered myself.
👇

Today is my 80th Birthday.

I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to live the best life. I’d like to share a few things that have made my life successful and happy.

While I hope to live another 15 years or so, I’m acutely aware that I could leave the planet tomorrow. 🧵👇 I feel better about it knowing that I’m leaving my findings in The MindSkills Playbook, which I’m writing in public as a live, hybrid written/audiobook. bit.ly/3Jf6ohi.

My purpose now is to pass on the wisdom others gave me and that I discovered myself.
👇

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. —Charles Kettering

How to state a problem: #Template

1. What's the GOAL?

2. Where are you now? THE GIVEN

3. What's the obstacle? THE UNKNOWN 👇 1. The goal

1a. May be something you want removed: an annoying habit, emotion, interference, hassle.

Examples: Less drinking, feel less fear, become less distracted, focus more, perform a task effortlessly.
👇

1. Be curious. Embrace uncertainty and turn it into curiosity and wonder.

2. Be a critical thinker. Admit when you're wrong, and be open to new evidence and perspectives.

3. Be imaginative. The most important quality for a problem-solver is imagination.
👇 4. Be a lifelong learner. Speed learning, communication, persuasion, and goal setting are all important skills to master.

5. Be a rational thinker. Think in fundamentals and first principles, and solve problems accordingly.

LIFE IS MORE INTERESTING WHEN YOU'RE CURIOUS.

Curiosity drives us to explore new things. It helps us solve problems and make new discoveries.

Curiosity is also what makes us interesting and engaging to people. So you want to be more curious,

Some tips: 1. Be open to new experiences.

2. Ask questions and explore the answers.

3. Be patient – some things take time to figure out.

4. Be persistent – don’t give up easily.

5. Be flexible – be willing to change your mind.

Da Vinci's 7 Principles (with a bonus 8th at the end)

1. Curiosità (Curiosity)
2. Dimonstratzione (Independent Thinking & Testing Of Knowledge)
3. Sensazione (Refine Your Senses)
4. Sfumato (Embrace Uncertainty)

🧵👇 5. Arte/Scienza (Art & Science, Whole-Brain Thinking)
6. Corporalita (Mind-Body Care)
7. Connessione (Interconnectedness)

They are just as applicable to you as to Leonardo.
I've lived my whole life by these principles. They work.

Let's dive in:

Top-Down Thinkers: Adding Bottom-Up Thinking Will Make You a More Original Thinker. Here's HOW:

Top-down thinkers are highly organized. They have their thoughts, ideas, notes, and info in categories, high-level concepts, files, outlines, taxonomies, and hierarchies.
👇 🧵 This is a superpower. It is also an Achilles Heel.

While your pre-conceived organization enables enormous breadth and deep analysis, pre-conceived buckets work against producing original, creative thinking. You need BOTH top-down and bottom-up.

And Top-Downers know it. 👇

#Facilitating

When we are facilitating a group discussion, what are we actually facilitating?

Not just the flow of conversation. We are facilitating, or guiding, collaborative thought: The exchange of ideas to teach an agreed-upon goal.

So, set a goal through a question… #facilitating

Ask: (Meeting Template)

• Why are we having this meeting?
• What would success look like? The desired outcome? What will we have that we didn't have before?
• What are we trying to explore, understand, generate ideas about, decide on?

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin

This is a profound lesson that strong, intelligent people ignore at their peril.

The winners are the adaptable and the agile.

👇 Past a certain base level, strength and intelligence are relatively unimportant.

What you want to concentrate on, all MindSkills that are learnable:

Cleverness,
Creativity
Agility
Adaptability
Vision
Rational optimum
Calculated risk-taking (experimentation)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. — Albert Einstein How to go to a new level of thinking #Template

• Go up a level of attraction or more
• Go Meta: Is this the problem I really want to be solving? The Real Problem? How can I reframe it?
• How was this TYPE of problem solved in another domain?
👇

Innovation is a foundational MindSkill.

How to be more innovative:

Start by asking, "How can I do this differently." Obvious, but how many people, teams and organizations ask this simple question? Ask, "How can I make it bigger, smaller, simpler, faster, easier, …"

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