Month: December 2025

Honestly this book reminds me to “Do the work” that I read recently. This is more scientific but easy to digest.

It is about how to deal with being stuck, with its different meanings

• you can’t make progress
• you are fixes in a place long enough to feel discomfort.
• your existing habits and strategies are not solving the problem.

Th overall summary is that action is the bigger unsticker.

It mentions different strategies to move forwards. From breaking down the goal is smaller chunks. We will always face plateaus and lifequakes.

Most of the times, we quit to early, just a few steps from the breakthrough. So just ask you, can I keep going? You are more creative than you think, at the first sight of difficulty, persevere. But, in for me this is the difficult thing, you dont have to persevere forever. You need to make some markers and assess: ie, give you 50% more time that you thought you would need.

Novelty is overrated (Google search, Amazon, etc) Patience and persistence solve poor-timing and allow not-quite-ripe ideas to mature.

If something comes to you quickly, it’s likely to come to other people in your culture just as quickly: question every decision, three times.

Dont let the small or unimportant problems to grow. Do preventive maintenance like the airplanes (ABC + checklists)

Slow down, do less. A threat is a challenge, embrace failure. Think of the worst scenario and you will realise that life goes on.

Maximizer (got the best outcome?) vs satisfacer (good enough?): Maximizer got stuck as they can’t know if they have the best solution. Satisfacer know what is good enough and moves on.

Make it simple, be flexible, less is more, perfect is the enemy of done, 100% original is impossible. And add diversity to your strategy.

So take action (use a noun not a verb), micro-schedule and put some constraints on it, move your body (take walks), be nonjudgemental (failing is ok), be curious and learn.

This is a tiny book but important, for me. For a person used to be alone, not very sociable, looks like being alone is a curse, due to different social pressures. And it is easy to feel bad about it. And I am not the first one saying this. This is not to say that you must be alone, that being alone is the best thing ever. The contrary, it is making the most of it. We have only one life, alone or not, make the best of it.

Being happy with yourself, is being happy being with you, your thoughts

We dont hate being alone. We hate to believe that we have been left behind. But there is nothing wrong with us. Being alone is part of the game of life. Things come and go. You can control it, you need to be prepared for any outcome.

Loneliness means being yourself with sympathy and misery, but remember nothing is wrong with you.

This reminds me to El Quijote… we subconsciously (and I know I am there) are convinced that one day someone day will come to save us, rescue us, to love us. We choose to be rescued or being the victime (and that is cruel to ourselves), but life is not a movie, comic, book, etc. We have all the tools to rescue ourselves. No excuses.

You need to know-yourself, the good and bad things, nobody is perfect. And this interest is for your whole life. Define who you are and/or who you are not. That may you to realize that all those “social” things, are not up to your standard or definition.

Learn to define your definition of everything. Don’t make your life a wish list of what you think everyone has.

One thing at each time. Action is the cure for almost everything.

Make your alone time addictive. What is the one thing you do every day to make yourself happy? For this you need self-awareness. And learn a new skill, although if it just takes 15 minutes a day! And read books!

This is a tiny book, with the main focus to fight procrastination = Resistance.

If you have a big project in your hands, having this book and reading it often, can help you.

Don’t think. Act. Be Stubborn

Don’t prepare. Begin. Do a research diet, just 3 book about the subject.

Three Act Structure: beginning, middle, end. Work backwards, start with the end.

What is this about? Answer in a tweet style.

Get the full working drafts ASAP.

Work, Work, Work. Then Act/reflect = refine your “What is this about?”

You will hit a wall. You will crash. Then you have to grow, we need to solve the problems.

And when you are getting to the end, you need killer instinct, you need to ship! Resistance is strongest at the finish. When we ship, we are exposed.

Fear of success is the essence of Resistance.

And start again, before you are ready. Celebrate, put start again.

I read this book, for the idea to improve my public speaking, something I have done just a few times but I thought it is a good reminder and even better trying to add humor to one presentation

The first point is to start with a story. By nature we are attracted to stories, and you need to tell it in present, like you are living it in the moment. And get the public feeling that they could be there.

Adding humor is hard bit for me, as well, depends on the time of humor you want to add, at the end of the day, I want to make good presentations, but it is clear if you add something funny, the audience will be more engaged with it and remember it!

For the jokes perspective, it is important to trim them to the max, remove the unnecessary. Three phases: Preparation, anticipation and punch line! And you need to write the jokes. This is very critical step. The most funny comedians work a lot in their set and jokes, it is all preparation, rehearsal and improvement of your lines

You need to be sure, you memorize your set, like using the memory palace method. And be familiar with the audience.

I should have taken more notes from the book, it is small and easy to read. So I should give it another go (when I have a presentation or job interview)