Mental models for clearer thinking.

Breaking Habits

An easy and proven way to break bad habits.

Domino Effect

Think about what task or project you should focus on above everything else to compound your efforts and set off a chain reaction.

What? So What? Now What?

Reflect on your past experiences, identify lessons learned, and establish future actions.

GROW Model

Structured process for setting and achieving goals. Identify where you are now, where you want to be, what options you have to get there, and what actions you will take to make it happen.

Eliminate, Automate, Delegate

Cut your workload and save time, effort, and money with this simple productivity framework.

Self Check-In

A simple system to keep yourself on track, do necessary course corrections, and achieve your long-term goals.

Overthinking Antidote

Sort through overwhelming thoughts by breaking them down into feelings, facts, assumptions, and truth.

Loser Brain, Winner Brain

Reframe your thinking so you can see things in a way that serves you. Useful when you've encountered an unfortunate situation.

Core Values Assessment

Identify and prioritize your core values to gain greater clarity and direction in your life, helping you make more aligned and fulfilling choices.

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Emotion Audit

Understand why you feel a certain way, reduce the intensity, and find positive sides to the experience. Best done when you feel a strong emotion and want to get clarity and some relief.

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Cognitive Journaling

Reframe cognitive responses to events and emotions. Based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques.

Ikigai

Find your purpose by thinking about what you love, what you're good at, can get paid for, and what makes the world a better place.

Energy Audit

Assess your current energy levels and develop strategies to increase the level of each of your four types of energy.

Life Categories

Reflect on the ten main areas of your life. Look at each one's current situation and put together an action plan to improve your life in every way.

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Tackling Burnout

Understand what’s really causing your burnout and decide what to change next.

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Multiply Your Time

Focus on doing the things today that will give you more time in the future. Think about the urgency, importance, and significance of your decisions.

Decision Survey

Record your mindset after making big decisions so that you can later review your thought process and learn from it once you have results.

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Inversion

Look at a problem or decision from the opposite point of view. Rather than focusing on achieving success, consider how to avoid failure.

ICE Scoring

Make short-term decisions by thinking about the impact, confidence, and easiness of your decisions. Plan and prioritize on the timescale of weeks or months.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Consider whether it's reasonable to continue with an investment or if it is rational to cut losses and move on.

Regret Minimization

Maximize your long-term happiness. Prioritize projects you will most regret not having pursued by the time you're old and looking back at your life.

Thinking In Bets

Make better decisions by embracing uncertainty and assessing the quality of your decision-making process.

The Third Door

Come up with clever and non-obvious ways to achieve a goal that's otherwise difficult to attain using traditional or expected paths.

10-10-10 Rule

Evaluate a decision across three time horizons to see its short and long-term impact.

Six Thinking Hats

Increase clarity around a situation by looking at it from the mindset of optimism, creativity, emotion, logic, caution, and control.

First Principles Thinking

Break down complex problems into first principles and create innovative solutions.

Socratic Questioning

Disciplined questioning process for critical thinking, used to establish truths, reveal underlying assumptions, and separate knowledge from ignorance.

Core Problem Analysis

Separate the underlying problem from the symptoms, so you can develop solutions that truly address the root cause, leading to more effective outcomes.

Theory Of Constraints

Optimize a system by identifying the most limiting factor that stands in the way of achieving a goal. Then improve the constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor.

One Level Higher

When dealing with a system, start by identifying the highest level to optimize at. The higher the level you optimize at, typically the greater your return-on-investment.

Musk's 5 Step Design Process

Rethink assumptions, remove unnecessary complexity, and design smarter solutions. Inspired by Elon Musk’s 5-step problem-solving approach.

The Four Kinds of Luck

Increase your chances of being lucky by learning to capture luck instead of waiting around for it.

Specific Knowledge

Find your specific knowledge to increase earning potential and escape competition through authenticity.

What Do You Do?

Create a 30 second, 3 minute, and 10 minute pitch about yourself to use in social settings.

Design Thinking

Build products that meet the needs of your customers by gaining a deeper understanding of the problems they face.

The 4 Hats Of Business

Assess the health of your business and make better decisions by looking at it from the perspective of the artist, operator, owner, and board.

Zero To One

Create something new and valuable rather than simply competing in existing markets.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Make the competition irrelevant by creating uncontested market space through differentiation.

Changed Environment

Adjust your mindset to operate in a new and changed environment, so you can not just survive but thrive in a recession.

Journaling

7-Day Journaling Challenge

A week long challenge that introduces you to various journaling frameworks.