Ep 38: 40 Timeless Rules of Life

Happy Friday, all! 🪷 

Do you have timeless books, videos, or articles that you regularly circle back to because they’re so damn valuable in your personal/professional life? I do. So, I created a calendar where my resources recur monthly (or other), so they automatically show up on my calendar just as I’m about to forget them (time-spaced repetition).

I’m happy to share my personal development calendar for anyone interested 🙂 

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This week, 40 Timeless Rules for life by Mark Manson came up, which he also talks about with context in his book:

1. Your relationship with others is a direct reflection of your relationship with yourself.

2. The only way to feel better about yourself is to do things worth feeling good about.

3. The only failure is not trying.

4. No one is coming to save you.

5. Be the partner you want to have.

6. The most valuable things in life compound over a long period of time: health, knowledge, confidence, relationships, wealth

7. Most hyperstimulated things in life have diminishing returns.

8. If you’re not turning down exciting things, you’re not focused enough on something that matters.

9. Taking responsibility for all of your problems alleviates more suffering than it creates.

10. You give power to who you blame.

11. If you have to tell someone you’re that, you’re not that.

12. Motivation is not the cause of action, it is the effect.

13. Love is not the cause of commitment, it is the effect.

14. Passion is not the cause of good work, it is the effect.

15. The person you marry is the person you fight with.

16. A happy life is not a life without stress, it’s a life of meaningful stress.

17. Don’t view exercise as an exchange for something.

18. Trust people.

19. There’s no such thing as a life without problems.

20. Growth is rarely accompanied by joy and celebration.

21. A normal person is physically unhealthy, emotionally anxious, depressed, socially lonely, in debt: fvk being normal.

22. If you can’t say No, you’re Yes’s mean nothing.

23. Be careful how you define yourself.

24. Don’t make assumptions about people.

25. No one thinks about you as much as you think about yourself.

26. Confidence does not come from an expectation of success, it comes from a comfort with failure.

27. Develop a willingness to be disliked.

28. You cannot be a life-changing presence to some people without also being a complete joke to others.

29. Floss. And wear sunscreen. Every day.

30. Extraordinary results come from repeating ordinary actions over an unordinary amount of time.

31. Choosing a partner isn’t just about romance. Choose wisely.

32. Don’t overestimate romantic love—it is an amplifier.

33. Trust is the currency of all relationships.

34. If all of your relationships have the same problem, you’re the problem.

35. There’s no such thing as a bad emotion, only a bad response to an emotion.

36. Wake up early. Have a morning routine, even on the weekend.

37. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone, including yourself.

38. Bad advice will be useless in a few weeks, good advice will last you a lifetime.

39. Nothing meaningful in life is easy, nothing easy in life is meaningful—find the difficult things you enjoy.

40. It’s never too late to change.

If you’d like to hear it from Marc Manson, here it is.

That’s all this week, and please just hit reply to this email if you’d like access to my personal development calendar!

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I’ll see you all next week 🪷 

Deepak

Currently:

📖 : Reading | 👀: watching/listening | 🎵: song of the week | 📚️: Team Message

📖 : The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson & The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

👀 : Neal Brennan: Crazy Good - Netflix Stand-Up

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