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Using Test and Learn for Self-Development Practices

As I shared in a previous post, test and learn is an approach for evaluating options when you’re not sure which option better. The basic idea is that you test out a new option against an existing default option to learn to see if the new option performs better....

Starting the Day with a Intentional Power Hour

In looking back over the past three years, if I had to pick one new practice that has been most helpful to me, it would be starting my day with an intentional power hour. I first learned about the idea of establishing power hour in an online workshop through Jamie...

Test and Learn as a Tool for Continuous Improvement

When Peter and I were summarizing our key takeaways from 2020, he shared one of his was the idea of test and learn, which I had shared with him earlier in the year. After our conversation, we both realized how test and learn was another way of saying continuous...

Bring a Question to Ask the Teacher

One of my martial arts teachers used to tell us students to always bring a question to ask whenever we had senior instructors visit to teach seminars. Bringing a question is a practice I’ve since adopted for any type of seminar or class I take. I’ve...

Why Do I Do What I Do? Why Do You Do What You Do?

I’ve been thinking about this question a lot: Why do I do what I do? What I’ve realized is that sometimes the reasons I have for doing things changes with time. Sometimes I stumble into doing something for one reason and then discover other reasons later...

No Understanding Without Direct Experience

During my Eastern Theories class today, the teacher shared that there can be no understanding without direct experience. I can read, watch videos, or listen to lectures to learn about spiritual traditions like Advaita Vedanta or Buddhism, but I can never hope to...