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