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My notes on non-fiction that I’ve read after Dec, 2024. In each book’s page, I summarize how I’m currently applying it in my routines. Inspired by Derek Sivers.

How to Read a Book
You know how when you buy a book and you open it to page one and start reading until you're done? Well, you're missing out on a much richer and more enlightening reading experience. There's a better way. Inspectional Reading: My favorite thing about inspectional reading is that it permits... read more.

Internal Time
I started a sabbatical recently and I quickly noticed that without an alarm, I started to go to bed progressively later. Now I go to bed at around 4 and I get up at around noon. I'm not sleeping more, it's just that the schedule shifted. It feels wonderful and... read more.

On Writing Well
Writing is a powerful search mechanism—even when unpublished—that helps you understand your life's narrative. It'll help you work through some of life's hardest knocks: loss, grief, addiction, illness, failure and help you find understanding and solace. Writing is an act of ego[^1]. Just admit it and use its energy to... read more.

Unlimited Memory
Since high school, I had been memorizing by rote repetition. It turns out that that's the least effective way to memorize. Our mind is setup to memorize differently. This books showed me how. _Some parts are written in the first person because I'm using this as a workbook and taking... read more.

Useful Not True
**Belief** generates **emotion** which generates **action[^1]**, but what you believe is not true. Adopt a useful belief that generates the emotion which impels the action that you need now to reach your ultimate destination. Your actions are what define you. **Nothing else does**. Not what you think about yourself or... read more.