Self Development Freak

The main teaching from the book The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy is: "The compound effect is the strategy of reaping huge rewards from small, seemingly insignificant actions." It basically means that to achieve remarkable results we do not need to do extreme changes to our lifestyle but small insignificant changes do compound over time and it leads to great changes. A very good example would be of Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran once said in an interview  "I've dropped like 35 pounds in like, three months just from not drinking beer. I've replaced it with vodka." So see, many people want to lose weight quickly and see their desired results in a short amount of time by making extreme changes to their lifestyle but it simply boils down to one thing in the beginning, 'making small lifestyle changes for remarkable results'.   Later on you may gradually introduce more good habits to your daily life in order to notice even better results. An importa...

In this fast world with so many distractions we are probably not in touch with ourselves and by that I mean we do not give time for our brain to wonder and think. Nowadays, a dopamine hit is so easy to obtain, just grab your phone and now you have an endless source of dopamine on your fingertips and our brain is probably fried because we don't give it the time to wander and think of different stuff  Great people: Successful people like Bill Gates takes two weeks out of every year away from technology and society in a cabin in the woods where he reads and thinks. It is during these think weeks that he came up with various ideas for Microsoft. I am no successful person but I do know that successful person do not waste time on instant gratification but instead many of them set aside some time for themselves to think and reflect. A Harvard study found that people who spent 15 minutes on the end of the day to reflect what they have learnt, performed 23% better co...