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Gavin Cook

Scientific self-improvement for all

How and why to find your passions [Founding ed.]

How and why to find your passions [Founding ed.]

$25

This book is designed to help you find your passions and unlock new levels of productivity and joy in your daily life.

This guide is for you if you want to:

  • Live a meaningful, fulfilling life

  • Achieve your career and financial goals while also enjoying yourself along the way

  • Be more productive and have more fun at the same time

Living with passion will make every second of your work significantly more fun, more enjoyable, and more fulfilling. This will help you achieve success in any domain you choose in less time and with a lot more enjoyment along the way.

This book [currently 100 pages single-spaced / 30,000+ words] features a mix of exercises, illustrative graphs, and more to help you:

  • 1) Reduce the noise of the modern world

    • You will refine your lifestyle and instill good habits

  • 2) Conclusively understand your interests - what motivates you and makes you tick

    • You will work through a series of battle-tested exercises that provide clarity on your interest, loves, and passions

  • 3) Boost the signal of fun in your daily life

    • You will learn to savor every moment, no matter how small, and live a more fun-filled life

  • 4) Boost the signal of passion in your daily life

    • You will learn how to listen for your passions and then how to use your passions to supercharge your life

FOUNDING EDITION

The founding edition (limited to 250 copies) includes 1) a discount [15% off, discount already included] and the opportunity to provide substantive feedback on this book. This means your questions and feedback may affect future short-term content and especially future written content. I have had a blast chatting with you all in the comments, and I would like to solicit more structured feedback from you all to understand your wants and needs better!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

LLM Usage Disclosure 3

[Every word in this book was written by a human; every idea in this book is from a human]

How to Read This Book 4

Executive Summary 5

Introduction: Why are passions important? 10

What this book is not 16

What passion is (and isn’t) 18

Consumptive Hobbies vs. Creative Passions 22

Prep Work (The Unglamorous Part) 35

Passion Activation Energy: embrace the suck 40

The 80s Sunday 42

The Signal and The Noise 45

Reduce Noise 48

List your interests 52

Interest Branching 55

Higher Interests and Interest Evolution 67

Boost Signal 1: Try New Things 78

FunMaxxing 80

Emotions: Is Childlike Joy for Children? 85

Interest discovery tools 88

Boost Signal 2: Better Content, Better Recommendations 90

Interest Expression and Known Unknowns 97

Algorithms give bad recommendations 101

Picking your poison 107

Bonus: Visualize Your Future 111

Conclusion 113

I hope this helps you as much as it has helped me

Totally optional, but I'd like to know more: what is the number one thing you're hoping to get out of this book?
Total :US$25
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