Reframes & frames I find useful

Reframes:

1. “Good, this is what hard feels like”: When I’m tired or feel like quitting, accept that this is what it should feel like. Expectations now meet reality.
2. Cosmic zoom-out: When I lose perspective, think about us being monkeys on a spinning rock in space. Most things don’t matter.
3. Do the boring basics well: When I get impatient, remember that success is the accumulation of unsexy actions over a long period of time.
4. Be the standard: For things I really care about, aim to set the standard.
5. Rocky cutscene: The two-minute montage in movies is five years in real life—no music, no applause, no guarantees. If it were guaranteed, it wouldn’t be worth it.
6. 40% rule: When I think I’m done, I’m only at 40%, keep going.
7. Do it for the story: The bigger the dragon, the more epic the story and the hero.
8. “Who cares, work harder”
9. “… and?”
10. “… and that’s okay”

Frames:

1. Think in 100s: When learning a new skill, count in 100s of reps.
2. Make success unavoidable: When starting a new project, list the actions that would make it unreasonable not to succeed.
3. Identity = behaviours: When I want to change, list the behaviours the person I want to be would do.
4. The best productivity hack is “No”: If I want to do more, stop doing shit, and focus on what’s important.
5. First principles: When approaching a problem, reason from truths rather than what others are doing.
6. Learning > status: When choosing between options, pick the path with faster learning and long-term compounding, at the cost of short-term gratification/status.
7. Callusing the mind: When it’s uncomfortable, do more.