Micro Misconcepts A weekly newsletter to help you iterate and build fit-for-purpose misconcepts to rapidly compound towards your life goals. 29th August 2025 Issue# 008 Why Your Productivity System Is Working Against You It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re scrolling YouTube. You just discovered another "life-changing" productivity hack. Your pulse quickens. This could be the missing piece that finally gets you on top of everything. Sound familiar? We've created a false binary around...
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Micro Misconcepts A weekly newsletter to help you iterate and build fit-for-purpose misconcepts to rapidly compound towards your life goals. 22nd August 2025 Issue# 007 When Rest is the Most Productive Thing You Can Do If reading this title gave you a brief sigh of relief, you're likely familiar with this feeling—you know deep down that you need to rest, but can't give yourself permission. You feel guilty, anxious, as if you're wasting time. But what if your guilt about resting is actually...
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Micro Misconcepts A weekly newsletter to help you iterate and build fit-for-purpose misconcepts to rapidly compound towards your life goals. 15th August 2025 Issue# 006 The counter-intuitive way to build meaningful relationships Here’s a question that might sting a bit - how many of your current relationships actually feel meaningful? I used to think I was an extreme introvert because I felt completely drained after most social interactions. I’d actively dodge social invitations, overwhelmed...
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Micro Misconcepts A weekly newsletter to help you iterate and build fit-for-purpose misconcepts to rapidly compound towards your life goals. Date 8th August 2025 Issue# 005 When reading harms you more than it helps You know that feeling when you're racing through a book just to tick it off your list and tell others you've read it? That's not learning - that's playing a different game. We've bought into a beautiful lie that reading automatically equals growth. Society reinforces this daily...
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Misconcept A weekly newsletter to help you iterate and build fit-for-purpose misconcepts to rapidly compound towards your life goals. 16th May 2025 #004 Read this if you feel like you never have enough time When was the last time you asked someone how they were and didn't hear some version of "busy"? Being busy has become our default state—even a badge of honour—as if our packed schedules prove our worth and importance to the world. While we outwardly joke about our perpetual busyness,...
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#003 4th May 2025 How to stop wasting time constantly worrying about how you use your time For the past 10 years, I've spent nearly every weekend caught in the same mental trap - worrying about whether I was using my time "well." Was I resting the right way? Being productive with my time? Making the most of my weekend? When I did the math, it hit me hard. That's more than 16,000 waking hours spent worrying instead of actually living. Imagine dumping 16,000 $100 notes into a firepit and...
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#002 18th April 2025 The most common trap for wasting life resources Worrying about what other people think of you. We are biologically wired to care what other people think of us. But an instinct that once ensured our survival within tribes now often leads us astray. When we worry about what anyone and everyone thinks of us, we put ourselves on a dangerous trajectory because: 1) We risk compounding in the wrong direction When we make decisions based on our fear of what others think of us, we...
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An Ecosystem to Get Unstuck and Optimize Life Are You Operating on Default Mental Misconcepts? If you're reading this, chances are you feel it - that quiet, nagging sense that you're capable of more, but despite all your effort, it feels like you're running in place. Progress feels elusive. You feel confused, lost, and need a framework to approach life. This isn't a random outcome. And it's not just you. It's the predictable result of operating with unexamined, inherited mental misconcepts....
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