005 2024, A New Year

007 Mindset

Jared and Sophia walk through the underlying why of their thinking and how that guides their day-to-day. The co-hosts reflect on how their actions are impacted by their mindset and vice-versa: how can their actions guide their mindset. Links Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke [https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions-ebook/dp/B074DG9LQF]

006 Structure - Part 2

The second in a two-part… structure. Jared and Sophia pick up where they left off talking through the structure (or lack thereof) in their lives: understanding there are a fixed 24 hours in a day, setting goals and themes, and nurturing intentionality by slowing down. Links "Amelia loves doing training runs in the rain and cold, as she knows her competition is probably opting out"- Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans This is Water by David Foster Wallace [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw] Pull out a sheet of paper, write down: 1. Your goal, and the timeframe you'd like to achieve it over 2. 1-3 things you'll reduce in order to accomplish that (mental or time bandwidth) 3. What can you add? What's the smallest thing you can add every day? ChatGPT-generated email sign-offs [https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/how-to-sign-off] "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - referenced in Extreme Ownership [https://echelonfront.com/books/extreme-ownership/] Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday

005 2024, A New Year

What happened in 2023? And how does that influence 2024? Join Jared and Sophia as they talk through their current goals for the year to come. This episode ranges from goal-setting approaches, to actual goals, to quick-and-witty, one-line... advice... Links STREAKS. The to-do list that helps you form good habits. For iOS. [https://streaks.app/] Johnny Decimal - 11.01 Introduction║J•D [http://johnnydecimal.com] Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Revised) a book by David Allen and James Fallows [https://bookshop.org/p/books/getting-things-done-the-art-of-stress-free-productivity-david-allen/15540042?ean=9780143126560]

004 Structure: Part 1

The episode where Jared and Sophia talk through the structure (or lack thereof) in their lives, starting with the temporal realm of days, weeks, and months. They compare their 'aspirational' schedule with their 'actual' one in a live-action reality check. Part 1, so not a wrap quite yet... Links Cal Newport on time blocking [https://calnewport.com/deep-habits-the-importance-of-planning-every-minute-of-your-work-day/] Opinion: I tried the Elizabeth Holmes schedule, and here is how it went [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/elizabeth-holmes-schedule-tried-myself/] via The Washington Post The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary [https://www.amazon.com/Great-CEO-Within-Tactical-Building-ebook/dp/B07ZLGQZYC]

003 Personality

The episode where Jared and Sophia look to personality tests to understand themselves. Suffice to say, Sophia's Iron Man arc continues, Jared failed on marking chapters, and they have diametrically opposed attachment styles… Links Zook on adjacency and expansion [https://www.bain.com/contentassets/5785e23d214b4e95b0c19af629bd0af9/sl_increasing_odds_successful_growth.pdf] Tests: Myers-Briggs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator], StrengthsFinder [https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/strengthsfinder.aspx], Attachment Styles [https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/], Enneagram [https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/], Kiersey Temperament Sorter [https://www.keirsey.com], Six Styles of Working Genius [https://www.workinggenius.com], OpenPsychometrics Character Test [https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/] Sophia: * Myers-Briggs: ESTJ * StrengthsFinder: Learner, Achiever, Competition, Discipline, Connectedness * Enneagram: 8w7 * Attachment Styles: Dismissive Avoidant * Kiersey: Guardian Supervisor * Working Genius: Galvanizing, Tenacity * OpenPsychometrics: Tony Stark Jared: * Myers-Briggs: ENFJ * StrengthsFinder: Achiever, Competition, Communication, Strategic, Learner * Enneagram: 3w2 * Attachment Styles: Secure * Kiersey: Idealist Teacher * Working Genius: Galvanizing, Empowering * OpenPsychometrics: Mixture. Marvel-focused, Dr. Strange Link to Jared's custom personality test (doesn't currently exist…) Zero To One - Peter Thiel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_One] Click (2006 film) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_%282006_film%29]