#088 – Personal Development & Maximal Responsibility

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#088 at a Glance:

• Quote: The path of maximal responsibility.

• Podcast: Joe Rogan x Russell Crowe.

• Article: Australia’s Warren Buffett.

• Hack: The Personal Development Concept Tree.

• Tweet: The ultimate productivity hack.

Quote I’ve been thinking about:

Podcast I listened to:

The Joe Rogan Experience #2191 - Russell Crowe

Another sensational JRE episode.

Russell is such an incredibly thoughtful and gifted story-teller – listening to him and Joe riff about their unique life experiences was simply awesome.

One of only a handful of JRE episodes that I’ve listened to more than once.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.

[Podcast Length: 3 hours 7 minutes]

Article I read:

Meet Australia’s ‘Warren Buffett’, Alex Waislitz 

Really enjoyed reading this AFR write-up of Alex Waislitz. A heavy-hitter in the Australian financial landscape but also someone I’ve heard very little about.

Known as the founder of Thorney Investment Group, he turned $1.15 million into a $1.39 billion fortune by investing in the volatile world of ASX-listed small and mid-cap companies

His investment thesis is simple: focus on undervalued assets and a commitment to long-term value creation. Thorough extensive research and due diligence, he only pursues opportunities when he is able to closely collaborate with company management to drive growth and improvement.

You can read the full article here.

Hack you should try:

The Personal Development Concept Tree

Has this cycle ever happened to you?

Discover a new topic/concept/idea that you find really interesting → Discuss that new topic/concept/idea with others in a variety of different conversations and contexts → Forget about that topic/concept/idea after 2-3 weeks.

This happens to me A LOT.

One of the perils of consuming lots of self-development content is that it can become very easy for ideas that genuinely interest you at a moment in time to become lost in the ether after they fall out of circulation in your everyday conversations.

It’s only when you’re coincidentally reminded of them in another podcast, video, or conversation that you realise how long it’s been since you’ve pondered that particular concept.

Tired of this happening on such a regular basis, I decided to actually do something about it.

So last weekend, I spent all of Saturday creating a ‘Personal Development Concept Tree’ in Canva which is essentially a mind map of all of the interesting ideas that I have researched, written about, and/or spoken about over the last couple of years.

The natural starting point for me was obviously the newsletters I have written, so I went back through my archive and began pulling out my favourite concepts and as I gained momentum, some categories and themes began to emerge:

• Productivity

• Preparation & Motivation

• Psychology

• Attitude & Mental Frames

• Learning

• Creativity

• Business

• Interesting & Random

I then started to bundle summaries of certain ideas into these different buckets and began drawing arrows that linked them together.

After adding a fair few more, I’ve now got an extensive mind map consisting of many interesting concepts associated with self-development that have had a substantial impact on the way I view the world.

Everything from the Cocktail Party Effect to the Region-Beta Paradox and the Boiling Frog Metaphor.

And the beauty of having all of them summarised in one location is that you can visually appreciate how certain concepts nicely fit together and build off one another.

Highly recommend.

Tweet I liked:

The Ultimate Productivity Hack

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