10 deep questions I continue to think about: 👇 1. Did you choose to have a self-preservation instinct (which encourages survival)? Did you choose for sex to feel good (which encourages reproduction)? In other words, did you even choose the base rules of the game of life you are playing?

Q: "Is there a personal example of someone detailing how their lived experience developed through the Ego Development Theory stages?"

A: I'm so glad you asked! 👇 First, what is Ego Development Theory?

Intro summary:

Here's a visual summary in a nutshell: https://t.co/8C79lieHk2sloww.co/ego-developmen…

Quitting your career isn't always the clear and obvious choice. Here's something you probably didn't know about me👇 Late 2015: I was the Senior Manager of Brand Marketing for a global apparel company. My 2015 was spent working consistent 60-80+ hour weeks which led to an an existential crisis. What was I doing with my life? Was I really here to sell people more $40 jeans they didn't need?

Q: Is this an interesting way to determine online course value?

I've taken 3 courses and saved notes from each of them. After the course, I divided the course cost by the word count of my notes.

All the courses ended up between $0.08-0.12/word. Here's what I mean👇 Visualize Value courses by @jackbutcher:

💰 I paid $135 for Permissionless Apprentice, How to Visualize Value, & Build Once, Sell Twice.

✍️ I saved 1,650 words of notes.

📊$135 / 1650 = $0.08/word

10+ AI tools to try for writing, photos, and videos:👇 1. ChatGPT (@OpenAI)

Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

Answers followup questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and rejects inappropriate requests. openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

I looked at 50+ online courses. Here's what I learned 👇 Here's the full online course audit spreadsheet (make a copy to view all the content): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

25+ quotes that will make you radically rethink your relationship with marketing and advertising: "Advertising: The gentle art of persuading the public to believe that they want something they don’t need." — Ad Sense (1905)

"Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like." — R. Quillen (1928)

I quit my career 4 years ago.

It was the easiest decision I've ever made. Here's why... I had an existential crisis in late 2015, but I continued to work another 2.5 years post-crisis.

Those years were brutal as I learned more about myself and life in general but still showed up day after day to a purposeless job (talk about cognitive dissonance!).

Building a Second Brain, Visualized:

(Thread images via @Mappletons👇)

📧 15 newsletters I subscribe to and *actually read*

Who else would you add?

(Thread 👇) 1. Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) Farnam Street (@farnamstreet) Brain Food newsletter:

fs.blog/newsletter/

There's a big "note-taking" vs "note-making" debate.

Here's what almost everyone seems to miss 👇 Simplified definitions:

Note-taking: taking notes in the author's words

Note-making: making notes in your own words

THE NAVAL OF FAME

My all-time favorite one-liners from @naval.

(Thread 👇) "Your worldview is your world."

— @naval

NAVAL 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Angel Philosopher

I've spent countless hours "hanging out" with @naval over the last few years. Here are the best places to jump in.

(Thread 👇) Highly recommend checking out @naval's viral tweetstorm "How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)."

Full Audio:

Full Transcript: nav.al/rich

Detailed Summary: sloww.co/how-to-get-ric…

Original Tweet Thread:

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936