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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Put the demanding work where the energy is, not where the timetable happens to be convenient. Then alternate it with something they like, and break it up often.
Effort runs down fast, so an hour of hard work in one block will give you good minutes at the start and very little after. Cut it into shorter runs…
Where you can, let the learning be something done rather than something sat through. Typing instead of writing, a calculator instead of longhand, a built model instead of an essay.
The knowledge is usually already there. What fails is showing it through a long, still, low feedback task, and that is the part worth redesigning.…
Awareness runs a step behind the feeling. The work is not to stop anger arriving, it is to widen the gap between noticing it and acting on it.
Two things can be trained separately here: how fast you notice, and how long you can hold before you respond. Aiming at never getting angry sets you…
Your threat system is not a neutral observer. It listens out for danger, so it tends to find some, and your first read of a situation leans towards the worst version of it.
That does not make the read wrong, it makes it a first draft. In practice it means checking before acting: was that tone really aimed at me, did they…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.